I broke the news back in January that the 3rd season of Game of Thrones will be starting on M-Net on 5 April with episodes following in South Africa on the pay-TV broadcaster just 5 days after it's starting on 31 March in America.
Now M-Net decided to rather push back the start of the epic and highly acclaimed fantasy series' 3rd season by one week.
And don't worry - M-Net is actually very clever about it. Somebody reads, somebody in programming and scheduling is dynamic and I have huge respect for that. Game of Thrones will have a one week non-broadcast, so M-Net rather wants to not have to show a repeat for a week and "close" that gap for South Africa.
"The change is due to the anticipated one week production break," says M-Net - not quite correct since it's all already produced, but you get what they're trying to communicate.
So Game of Thrones will now start on Friday 12 April and there won't be any interruptions as the 10 episodes unspool here on M-Net.
