Westworld season 2 gets trailer and US/UK release date in HBO's first Super Bowl ad in 20 years

Super Bowl LII offered up a bounty of big trailers overnight, the ad breaks seeing first looks at Star Wars' Han Solo prequel and the latest Mission: Impossible film.

HBO returned to the TV spectacle for the first time in 20 years, meanwhile, serving up a first look at the eagerly-anticipated second season of Westworld.

The lavish trailer is set to a piano cover of Kanye West's 'Runaway' and sees host bulls running riot in the labs as Delos Incorporated struggles to contain the breakout instigated in the season one finale.

It also gives us a hard release date: 22 April, 2018.

As forking out for a Super Bowl ad suggests, HBO is banking big on Westworld being its new major show, taking over from Game of Thrones which is set to conclude in 2019.

The new season will consist of 10 episodes once more and will air on Sky Atlantic and through NOWTV in the UK. It will be simulcast with the US, meaning when the show airs on HBO on Sunday nights, it will also be broadcast in the UK at 2am early Monday.

New environments are likely to feature, very possibly including the Samurai World hinted at during the close of season 1.