These Favorite HBO Shows Won't Be Back Until 2025

Looks like fans will have to wait a lot longer for their favorite HBO shows to return. As reported by Rolling Stone, HBO exec Casey Bloys shared via Deadline that some of the network's most popular shows probably won't be back soon due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

Those shows include "The White Lotus," "The Last of Us" and a Stephen King-inspired "It" prequel. Of course, the better news is that writers and actors will have a better deal when they finally are able to go back to doing what they love. So fans will have to wait until the deal is right.

What we do know about the third season of "White Lotus" is that it will be set in Thailand. No cast members, or returning cast members, have been announced.

However, the "It" prequel "Welcome to Derry" will reportedly star Madeleine Stowe, Stephen Rider, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, and James Remar, according to Deadline.

Also waiting in the wings is the next season of "The Last of Us," which is scheduled to start production next year.

"We were able to map out all of Season 2," showrunner Craig Mazin told Entertainment Weekly in August. "And I also wrote and submitted the script for the first episode and sent it in [to HBO] around 10:30 or 10:40 PM right before the midnight the [WGA] strike began. I think it's becoming essentially a near certainty that we won't be able to start [filming] when we were hoping to start, which is upsetting. We are all raring to go."

However there is some shows fans will be able to enjoy in the near future. The second season of "House of the Dragon" will arrive in "early summer," according to Bloys. And he hopes another "Game of Thrones" spinoff, "A Night of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight," will begin shooting in the spring if the SAG-AFTRA strike ends.