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Game of Thrones’ fifth season will debut on April 12th

Andrew Webster
is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

The fifth season of Game of Thrones will make its debut on April 12th, HBO has announced. The first episode of the new 10-episode-long season will air at 9PM that evening, followed by the season debuts of Silicon Valley and Veep. Previous reports claimed that the new season would debut alongside HBO’s anticipated streaming service, though there’s no been no official word from the network on that front. In the meantime, if you need to catch up on season four, which was the most torrented show of last year, you may want to head to an IMAX theater near you.

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