
Viewership yet again rose compared to the previous season. The season introduced a number of new cast members, including Diana Rigg, Ciarán Hinds, Nathalie Emmanuel and Iwan Rheon.Ĭritics praised the show's production values and cast.

Game of Thrones features a large ensemble cast, including Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington. The season also features other storylines: Daenerys Targaryen begins her rise in power in Essos Ned's illegitimate son, Jon Snow, goes undercover beyond the Wall the other Stark children struggle to survive up and down Westeros, but Robb is killed Jaime Lannister returns to the capital and all of Westeros is informed of the reawakened threat of the Army of the Dead. Like the novel, the season continues the storyline of The War of the Five Kings: after the death of Renly Baratheon, all four kings in Westeros believe they have a claim to the Iron Throne, besides Robb Stark, who seeks vengeance for the death of his father, Ned Stark, and independence for the North.

The story takes place in a fictional world, primarily upon a continent called Westeros, with one storyline occurring on another continent to the east, Essos. The show was filmed primarily in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland and Morocco. HBO renewed the series for a third season on April 10, 2012, nine days after the second season's premiere. The series is adapted for television by David Benioff and D. Martin, of which the series is an adaptation). The season is based roughly on the first half of A Storm of Swords (the third of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. It was broadcast on Sunday at 9:00 pm in the United States, consisting of 10 episodes, each running approximately 50–60 minutes.


The third season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered in the United States on HBO on March 31, 2013, and concluded on June 9, 2013.
