{"id":549424,"date":"2026-06-23T04:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/549424\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:36:18","slug":"bloodaxe-renewed-for-season-2-ahead-of-2027-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/549424\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOODAXE Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of 2027 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\u26a1<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tQuick Take<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ignore\">\n<li class=\"ignore\">Prime Video has announced a season two renewal of Bloodaxe before the premiere of its first episode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prime Video has just announced that its upcoming series, Bloodaxe, has been renewed for a second season. This news comes before even the show\u2019s first episode drops in 2027. This is certainly a bold move from the studio, but Prime has been on a renewal kick with Invincible and the Critical Role animated series doing well.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bjorn-ironside-vikings-michael-hirst-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1082347\" alt=\"Bjorn Ironside, a character from Vikings stares into the camera holding his sword.\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The History Channel<\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">Bloodaxe\u2018s first season won\u2019t come out until early next year, but nonetheless, Season 2 will start filming in August in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow ignore\" wp_automatic_readability=\"13\">\n<p class=\"ignore\">Bloodaxe\u00a0chronicles the rise of one of history\u2019s most famous Norse raiders, Erik Bloodaxe, and his formidable wife Gunnhild, Mother of Kings. As they fight for the throne of Norway, the land is torn apart by fierce rivals, shifting loyalties, and bloody betrayals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ignore\">Vikings was a 6-series historical drama. Hirst, its creator, was also behind Real Vikings, a one-series documentary, and Netflix\u2019s Vikings: Valhalla, which ran from 2022 to 2024. Unsurprisingly then, Hirst is also the creator of Bloodaxe alongside his son Horatio Hirst.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"info-target-blank ignore\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/vikings-valhalla-trailer-netflix\/\">VIKINGS: VALHALLA Wages War in a Bloody Good Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">Considering the lengthy runs of Hirst\u2019s other popular shows, the early renewal hardly comes as a surprise. It would make sense for Bloodaxe to have 4-6 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">Despite being based on a true story, Hirst says the show is going to introduce elements of magical realism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow ignore\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11\">\n<p class=\"ignore\">\u201cI\u2019ve always loved magical realism. King Arthur, the Bible \u2013 that\u2019s magical realism, too. You have to be very careful how you use it, though, and the audience needs to be aware that you\u2019re emphasizing something real.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is another theme Hirst has experience working with after Camelot. His 2011 show followed Arthurian legend, from the wizard Merlin to Arthur\u2019s round table. Bloodaxe promises a good mix of all of the storytelling experience Hirst has gained through his years in television. The first season will come out sometime early next year, with season two also on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u26a1 Quick Take Prime Video has announced a season two renewal of Bloodaxe before the premiere of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[230130,18,117,5489,19,17,230131,235404,3973,128,168414],"class_list":["post-549424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bloodaxe","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-history","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-hirst","tag-norse","tag-prime-video","tag-tv","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116797570999287817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}