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Originally Posted by Valiant
The show will have to finish on its own. There is no time to wait for RR.
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I think you're underestimating just how much they have left to cover. Next year will be season 5, but they'll only be at book 4. Even if they only do a season each for books 4, 5, and 6 (as unlikely/impossible as that is) that means they still won't run into any unpublished material until season 8, which would air in 2018, assuming that Winds of Winter has been published before 2017 (it'll be out next year).
I think we'll see the end for both the tv series and the novels by 2020, with A Dream of Spring coming out in 2019, then split into the 9th and 10th seasons (2019/2020). That gives him 4 years after TWoW to finish the 7th book. Assuming it's the last.