‘Vikings: Valhalla’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far
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VIKING: Valhalla, old sequel for Viking MGM, recently fell on Netflix. Series fans will be happy to know that the second season has been filmed and confirmed to return in 2023. Here are all we know so far about Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 on Netflix.
Vikings: Valhalla is the original Netflix historical drama made by Michael Hirst and spin-off of the popular historical channel series, Viking. This series is produced by MGM Productions, such as its predecessor which lasts for six seasons.Viking events: Valhalla lasted a hundred years after the Great Viking Army sailed for England, led by the son of Ragnar Lothbrok who was looking for revenge for his death.
We will go deep into what we know about season 2 below so if you are just looking for highlights, here they are:
- The show will return for season 2 in 2023 (no specific date given)
- The show will also return for a third season.
- Production on season 3 is due to start in Spring (specifically May 2022)
- Jeb Stuart continues his role as showrunner for seasons 2 & 3
- Sam Corlett (Leif Eriksson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eriksdotter) and Leo Suter (Harald Sigurdsson) are confirmed to return.
Has Vikings: Valhalla been renewed for a second season?
Not only Viking: Valhalla has been updated for a moment, but has been announced before that Vikings: Valhalla has also been extended for the third season.The reason for this initial update was a large order in advance the event received when it was first announced. 24 episodes are required in total.
Netflix also obtained the rights of licenses for the original Vikings series as part of this agreement with Netflix UK and US Netflix will still receive 1-6 season within several years.Netflix officially confirmed the fact that Vikings: Valhalla will return for two additional seasons on March 9, 2022.Considering how popular the predecessor of the show, Viking, is, Netflix is very confident that Viking: Valhalla will be a big hit for them.
How well did Vikings: Valhalla perform on Netflix?
Thanks to Netflix Top 10 Data We have good insight into how well the show is. For the first two days on the platform, registered 80.56 million hours of watch making it the second most watched show that Sunday.
Between February 25 and April 3, 2022 (the first 37 days of the show available) the show had collected 265,550,000 hours at Netflix.
Week Period | Hours Viewed(M) | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
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February 20th, 2022 to February 27th, 2022 | 80,560,000 | 2 | 1 |
February 27th, 2022 to March 6th, 2022 | 113,380,000 (+41%) | 1 | 2 |
March 6th, 2022 to March 13th, 2022 | 41,760,000 (-63%) | 4 | 3 |
March 13th, 2022 to March 20th, 2022 | 19,800,000 (-53%) | 8 | 4 |
March 27th, 2022 to April 3rd, 2022 | 10,050,000 (-49%) | 9 | 5 |
Making a difficult comparison with this new hourly data per hour but we can see that Vikings: Valhalla performed well (at least in the first 2-3 weeks) compared to the last kingdom which was also released at the beginning of 2022.
Nielsen data for Vikings: Valhalla Season 1
Nielsen every week publishes a large variety of 10 (usually a month in the back) who provides insight into how well the show in the United States.
Again, in the first week listed below, Vikings: Valhalla was only available for 2 days.
Week | Rank That Week (Original Titles) | Minutes (Millions) |
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02/21-02/27 | 8 | 796 |
02/28-03/06 | 2 | 1079 |
VIKING: Valhalla, old sequel for Viking MGM, recently fell on Netflix. Series fans will be happy to know that the second season has been filmed and confirmed to return in 2023. Here are all we know so far about Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 on Netflix. Vikings: Valhalla is the original Netflix historical drama made by…