House of the Dragon Season 3 Goes Double With a Bold Dual Release on HBO Max
HBO Max flips the script on House of the Dragon Season 3 with an unexpected rollout twist aimed at supercharging audience growth, potentially changing how and when viewers tune in.
HBO is bringing House of the Dragon back this summer and, finally, making a big accessibility move alongside it: a full American Sign Language version that drops the same night as each new episode. Good. More of this.
How season 3 rolls out
The Targaryen family feud returns for eight episodes starting Sunday, June 21 on HBO Max and HBO, with the show sliding back into its classic Sunday 9 p.m. ET slot after A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms temporarily bumped the schedule. Episodes run weekly and wrap on August 9.
- May 29: House of the Dragon season 1 gets its ASL version (signed by Landen Gonzales)
- June 15: Season 2 ASL version lands (signed by Sophia Morales)
- June 21: Season 3 premieres, and for the first time the show arrives with a simultaneous ASL version in the US and EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa) every week at broadcast time
- August 9: Season 3 finale ( episode 8)
The ASL team behind it
HBO Max is doing a proper dual release this year: every new season 3 episode will be available with an ASL version the same night. Landen Gonzales and Sophia Morales are sharing signing duties across the season, and Justin Jackerson is back as Director of American Sign Language for all three seasons. If Morales sounds familiar to ASL viewers on the platform, she previously handled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and A Minecraft Movie.
As a bit of a warm-up, HBO Max is also backfilling the library with ASL versions of the first two seasons before the premiere, so you can watch the whole saga that way if you want it. This is part of a larger push on the service that has already produced ASL versions of The Last of Us, The Pitt, Barbie, Sinners, and Wuthering Heights. The platform is clearly treating accessibility like a feature, not a checkbox.
And yes, marketing has started: new character posters for Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and Prince Daemon Targaryen are out to set the mood for season 3.
Meanwhile, the guy steering the dragon ship just re-upped
Showrunner Ryan Condal has signed a new exclusive overall deal with HBO that runs through 2029, per Deadline. Condal co-created House of the Dragon with George R.R. Martin in 2020 and took over as sole showrunner starting in season 2. He is already writing season 4 — which HBO has pegged as the final season, expected in 2028 — while finishing post-production on season 3. Translation: the long game for this show is mapped out, and he is sticking around to land it.