User blog comment:Werthead/Official: producers will not wait for Martin to finish the books/@comment-1600847-20130329132454

"Doesn't want the show on hiatus for a year"

Not to nit-pick or anything, but it practically is, with almost a year between each season. The actors who play the young Starks, for example, are likely going to have to be re-cast by the time they make, say, A Dance with Dragons into a season or two. That's going to be in, what, four -five years? Maisie Williams is going to be 20 and supposed to look 12.

​And I really hope GRRM has told the producers what he plans for books 6 and 7. No offence to him, but he in his sixties and overweight. If he dies, I hope he leaves notes or something so the series can be finished. It would SUCK if we never knew the ending.