15-minute Game Of Thrones featurette arrives online: watch now

With the fourth season of Game Of Thrones looming large on the horizon, HBO has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette designed to whip up anticipation to fever pitch.

Clocking in at nearly 15 minutes, the new video is packed full of info on the new locations, events and characters set to make their bow in the upcoming series, which gets underway in April.

As well as the teasers, there are also a few laughs to be had, thanks to some amusing responses from the cast to an array of questions posed by fans of the show.

Take a look at the new featurette, below:

The next season will largely be based on the second half of the third book in the George R.R. Martin series, with viewers in for some serious mayhem over the next ten episodes.

The new series will air in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 7 April 2014, just one day after making its debut in the US. Winter is indeed coming...