‘Vikings: Valhalla’: Netflix Reveals Launch Pattern As Fantasy Epic Tops Streamer’s Weekly Ratings
deadline.comVikings: Valhalla has swung its sword to the top of Netflix’s weekly ratings chart as the streamer has revealed how its 24-episode order will be split up.The first eight episodes of the Jeb Stuart-created series launched on February 25 and were watched for 113M hours by subscribers.
This put it at the top of Netflix’s Top 10 English-language series in the U.S. as well as in 90 countries – moving Inventing Anna into second place.
Across its first nine days, it has totaled 194M hours watched.The streamer revealed that the second chapter of eight episodes has wrapped in County Wicklow, Ireland and is expected to air in 2023.
Production on the third chapter of eight episodes will begin later this spring.Stuart remains showrunner and exec producer for the second and third chapters with Sam Corlett, who plays Leif Eriksson, Frida Gustavsson as Freydis Eriksdotter and Leo Suter as Harald Sigurdsson reprising their roles.The series, which is produced by MGM Television and is a sequel series to the History Channel original, chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived.As tensions between the Vikings and the English royals reach a bloody breaking point and as the Vikings themselves clash over their conflicting Christian and pagan beliefs, these three Vikings begin an epic journey that will take them across oceans and through battlefields, from Kattegat to England and beyond, as they fight for survival and glory.Stuart exec produces alongside Morgan O’Sullivan, Vikings creator Michael Hirst, Sheila Hockin, Steve Stark, James Flynn, John Weber, Sherry Marsh, Alan Gasmer, and Paul Buccieri, who previously ran A+E Studios.Stuart thanked the fans for watching. “The numbers have been mind-boggling
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