User blog comment:KarinS/Darn! and: how long must we wait?/@comment-26308-20110616165642

HBO have decided that rather than their previous irregular programming, they want to have a set number of shows on each year. The plan from next year is that they want to have LUCK on at the start of the year (January-March, replacing BIG LOVE), followed by GAME OF THRONES (around April-June), TRUE BLOOD (June-September or thereabouts) and BOARDWALK EMPIRE (September-November or December). That gives them a rotating, set number of big tentpole shows with their other programmes - CURB, TREME etc - fitting around them. The idea is that people will keep HBO on all year round rather than subbing for BLOOD and then ditching it the second it ends (which apparently is what happens at the moment).

So yeah, I strongly expect THRONES Season 2 to start airing in April 2012.