‘GAME OF THRONES’ DROPS TRAILER FOR SEASON 8

Bust out the calendar and start scheduling your Sundays accordingly, because HBO has finally revealed when “Game of Thrones” will return: April 14.

That very practical tidbit of information comes at the end of HBO’s latest teaser for the show’s eighth and final season, which will last six, long episodes. Unlike previous Season 8 teasers, this one isn’t just a mash-up of previous episodes, and it contains some very useful reminders regarding lineage.

Published Sunday, the teaser features Jon Snow, Sansa Stark and Arya Stark touring the crypt under Winterfell, where statutes of their ancestors and recently fallen stand. We hear voice-overs of now-dead Starks from previous seasons: Lyanna Stark saying, “You have to protect him;” Catelyn Stark saying, “All this horror that has come to my family, it’s all because I couldn’t love a motherless child;” and Ned Stark saying, “You are a Stark. You might not have my name, but you have my blood.” A feather falls to the ground.

Then the three living people come face-to-face with statutes of themselves as they look now, which is generally freaky and also pretty scary given the implication! A gust of wind extinguishes their torches, the cold takes over and ice creeps toward them, freezing everything in its path, including the feather. Arya and Jon draw their swords as they confront whatever kind of undead situation is before them.