Game of Thrones fourth season confirmed

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HBO confirms that fantasy series Game of Thrones will return for a fourth season after strong ratings for the season three premiere.
A post on the official Game of Thrones Twitter account confirmed the news last night:
“#GameofThrones is renewed for a fourth season. RT & share this update with your friends across the realm.”
It also shared a link to a poster for the fourth season, which featured a picture of Emilia Clarke (who plays character Daenerys Targaryen) and the words “Game of Thrones renewed for season 4 with fire & blood”. Reports suggest that the next series could air in early 2014.
The news comes after the third season premiered over the Easter weekend to strong ratings and glowing reviews. More than 700,000 people tuned in to Sky Atlantic to see Monday evening’s UK premiere – up from 522,000 who watched the start of the second series – while 4.4 million saw the US premiere, which aired the night before.
Data compiled by technology website TorrentFreak also suggested that the program has been illegally shared and downloaded over a million times since its US premiere. HBO’s head of programming Michael Lombardo called the piracy “a compliment of sorts”. “The demand is there,” he said. “And it certainly didn’t negatively impact the DVD sales. Piracy is something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.”
The television series is based on the fantasy novels of American writer George RR Martin. It follows the battle between a number of warring medieval-style families for control of the fictional kingdom of Westeros.