VIDEO : Was ?Game of Thrones? Season 8 Premiere Released Hours Early On Accident?

SFGate reports the eighth and final season premiere of ?Game of Thrones? was available early.
DirecTV Now offered the premiere four hours ahead of its scheduled 9 p.m. airing Sunday on HBO.
Fans on social media were, understandably, unhappy about winter coming earlier than they expected.
Subscribers to the service started tweeting about the ?GoT? drop around 5 p.m. ET.
The episode simply titled "Ep 1." has a runtime of approximately an hour and five minutes.