After finishing up the season finale with another 8 million viewers, you’re probably wondering just when HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us will return for the second season. While nothing official has been announced as of yet, star Bella Ramsey (who played Ellie in the adaptation) has given fans a rough timeframe as to when the next season will arrive.

Per The Independent, in an interview with The Jonathan Ross Show, Ramsey remarked that season two of the hit show “will be a while”, but that shooting will most likely start near the end of the year. “I think we’ll probably shoot at the end of this year, beginning of next.”

As for just when season two will premiere, Ramsey say that new episodes will start airing “probably by the end of 2024, early 2025.”

Again, there has been nothing so far from series developer Craig Mazin (“Chernobyl”) regarding the start date for season two’s production, nor has there been anything from Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann who wrote and executive produced the first season. Druckmann did tweet out a teaser poster for season two that alludes to what’s to come for next season.

In regards to season two, which will adapt The Last of Us Part 2, Mazin stated that there is “more than a season’s worth of television“, which seems to imply that there is a potential of additional seasons beyond the second.

In addition to Ramsey, Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) stars as Joel in the adaptation, which is currently streaming on HBO Max. Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate), Storm Reid, Anna Torv, Jeffrey Pierce, Nick Offerman, Merle Dandridge, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett and Con O’Neil also star in the series.