HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Dunk and Egg Prequel premieres

HBO will premiere A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a six-episode Game of Thrones prequel based on George R. R. Martin's Dunk and Egg novellas, on January 18, 2026, the network said. The series will follow a wandering hedge knight and his young squire across a Westeros that remembers dragons but no longer lives amid widespread magic, and it will present the story in half hour installments rather than the hourlong episodes typical of earlier franchise entries.

Showrunner Ira Parker, who serves as a writer and executive producer alongside Martin, said he promised Martin the series would tell Westeros from the perspective of common people rather than ruling houses. "To find a totally different version of this world that everybody seems to know so well was very, very appealing," Parker said, adding that the intention was to take the story "from the ground up." He described the central character, Ser Duncan the Tall, as driven by persistence. "That's all Dunk has. That's his only superpower. He gets up and, one foot in front of the other, he keeps going," Parker said.

Peter Claffey will play Ser Duncan and Dexter Sol Ansell will portray Egg, the boy who in later chronology becomes King...