Vikings (TV series)

Vikings
Genre	Historical drama Action War
Created by	Michael Hirst
Written by	Michael Hirst
Starring	Travis Fimmel Katheryn Winnick Clive Standen Jessalyn Gilsig Gustaf Skarsgård Gabriel Byrne George Blagden Donal Logue Alyssa Sutherland Linus Roache Alexander Ludwig Ben Robson Kevin Durand Lothaire Bluteau John Kavanagh Peter Franzén Adam Copeland Jasper Pääkkönen Alex Høgh Andersen Marco Ilsø David Lindström Jordan Patrick Smith Moe Dunford Jonathan Rhys Meyers Danila Kozlovsky Eric Johnson Georgia Hirst Ragga Ragnars Ray Stevenson
Opening theme	"If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray
Composer	Trevor Morris
Country of origin	Canada Ireland
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	89 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Morgan O'Sullivan Sheila Hockin Sherry Marsh Alan Gasmer James Flynn John Weber Michael Hirst
Producers	Steve Wakefield Keith Thompson Sanne Wohlenberg Liz Gill
Production locations	Ashford Studios and County Wicklow, Ireland
Cinematography	John Bartley PJ Dillon Owen McPolin Peter Robertson Suzie Lavelle
Editors	Aaron Marshall Michele Conroy Don Cassidy Tad Seaborn Christopher Donaldson Dan Briceno
Running time	45–50 minutes
Production companies	TM Productions Take 5 Productions Octagon Films (s. 1–4) Shaw Media (s. 1–4) Corus Entertainment (s. 4–6) MGM Television
Original release
Network	History (s. 1–6A) Amazon Prime Video (s. 6B)
Release	March 3, 2013 (2013-03-03) – December 30, 2020 (2020-12-30)
Related
Vikings: Valhalla
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Vikings is a historical drama television series created and written by Michael Hirst. A co-production between Canada and Ireland, the series originally aired on the History Channel, premiering on 3 March 2013 and concluding on 30 December 2020, when the second half of the sixth season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland, ahead of its broadcast on History in Canada from January 1 to March 3, 2021. A sequel series, titled Vikings: Valhalla, premiered on Netflix on February 25, 2022.^[1]

It is inspired by the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, a Viking who is one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of Anglo-Saxon England and West Francia. The show portrays Ragnar as a farmer from the Kattegat who rises to fame by raiding England and eventually becomes a Scandinavian king, with the support of his family and fellow warriors. In the later seasons, the series follows the fortunes of his sons and their adventures in England, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus', the Mediterranean and North America.

The series' principal cast features Travis Fimmel as Lodbrok, alongside Katheryn Winnick, Clive Standen, Jessalyn Gilsig, Gustaf Skarsgård, Gabriel Byrne, George Blagden, Donal Logue, Alyssa Sutherland, Linus Roache, and Alexander Ludwig. The series was filmed entirely in the Republic of Ireland, on-location in County Wicklow and at Ashford Studios.