The Leftovers fans know that the third and final season will air in 2017, but now there's some info on exactly what time of year it will premiere.

Casey Bloys, president of HBO Programming, spoke recently with reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour about the return of The Leftovers.

"Creatively, Damon [Lindelof] felt like eight episodes was the right number," Bloys said, according to Slashfilm. "They are shooting in Australia. Part of [the 2017 delay] was production, part of it was scheduling. We had a slot in the spring where [Game of Thrones] was moving out of."

Game of Thrones won't be returning until next summer due to production delays with season 7. The series typically premieres in April and airs through June. This should mean that The Leftovers will premiere in April next year, with the possibility of March or May.

The Leftovers co-creator Damon Lindelof recently spoke about the creative process for the final season.

"Well, we started with the very end. We eventually said, what do we want the last scene of the series to be, who's in that scene and what's happening in that scene, what do we want that scene to evoke emotionally?" Lindelof explained to Deadline. "And then, on a storytelling level, what happens, what feels like finality in a show that has never been about resolving mystery and delivering conclusive endings, now that the show is actually going to end? And how do we want the audience to be feeling when it's all over? So, those conversations started in a very abstract way and as they developed became much more coherent and sort of formed themselves into 'OK, we know what that last scene is, now, how are we going to get there?'"

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