# So why didn't they milk out Game of Thrones one more season?

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**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-didnt-they-milk-out-game-of-thrones-one-more-season/834404 "2019-05-23T13:26:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-didnt-they-milk-out-game-of-thrones-one-more-season/834404/61 "2019-05-29T21:48:14Z")

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They’re all done with the show for good.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-didnt-they-milk-out-game-of-thrones-one-more-season/834404/62 "2019-05-29T22:24:05Z")

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> [@Bijou\_Drains](#):
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> Kit Harrington is in rehab for alcohol and other issues so I think he’s done with the show for good. [Everything Kit Harington Has Said About Fame Struggles](https://people.com/tv/kit-harington-struggles-game-of-thrones-fame/)

That explains why he was seen in a bookstore in Madison, Connecticut a couple of weeks ago.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-didnt-they-milk-out-game-of-thrones-one-more-season/834404/63 "2019-06-02T03:52:17Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Nikolaj was on a Fox series called New Amsterdam about a decade ago, in which he played an immortal guy in NYC. The show only lasted a season but he wasn’t completely unknown to an American audience.

> [@Loach](#):
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> I really liked New Amsterdam but I think only 3 of us watched it.

Hey, I did, too! I enjoyed the show, and thought he was good in it, but didn’t remember him well enough to recognize him when I first saw him as Jaime Lannister.

He was also in an crazy good Norwegian thriller, _Headhunters_: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5am704I0zkM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5am704I0zkM)

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