Vikings will pillage and plunder for at least another season. Deadline reports the History TV show has been renewed for a fifth season.
It’s also been announced Jonathan Rhys Meyers will join the season five cast.
The renewal is a little bit surprising. Though History added four more episodes to season four of the historical drama, the current season has not performed well in the ratings. Only four episodes in, season four is averaging just around 2.1 million viewers per episode. For comparison, season three averaged around 2.45 million.
Despite the middling ratings, History has ordered 20 episodes for the fifth season, which is set to premiere in 2017.
What do you think? Do you watch Vikings? Are you enjoying season four so far?
Love “Vikings”…Floki is the best…the coolest Viking! Ragnar could have never succeeded without him!
Vikings is the best
Great show
Love Vikings. The complicated interconnectedness of the characters and the plots keep me only toes.
I love this show I hope they don’t cancel it
I love this show. Please never cancel it.
Brilliant show, authentic in detail and character. Did find Ragnar getting more and more stoned a bit much, but can’t wait to see where season 5 takes us!
PLEASE don’t cancel love this show!!! Check the DVR/streaming traffic not everyone can watch when it airs.
I don’t understand a mid-season finale. We wait seven or eight months in between seasons, then you pull it for three weeks in the middle of the season. If you would quit yanking around with the schedule you might get more viewers. I’m about to give up looking for it. It’s a good show but not worth the hassle.
I love this show please don’t cancel my husband is actually related to Rollo! The origin of my husbands family name Crawford leads right back to Rollo and his princess! After my husbands mother died, we inherited a few things and one of them was the authenticated certificate telling the story of the origin of the Crawford name. My jaw dropped when I read how Rollo and his Princess had a son William who went on to raid Scotland and the Crawford name took shape in Scotland. History is absolutely fascinating 🙂
Awesome being related to Rollo – my doctor’s was named Crawford Campbell
Oh Man, would HATE to see this series end any time soon. It just keeps getting better and better. And so much of the Viking world yet to explore. The Mediterranean, Iceland, Greenland and even ‘Vinland’. Exploring through Russia, contact and trading with the Islamic Caliphates. Not to mention the eventual return and conquest of England. So MUCH yet to experience.
I agree. One reason that I started watching was that I had always heard that my family was from Scotland. Then, I did the National Geographic swab test—and my family is from the land of the Vikings. Well, of course ! The Vikings conquered much of the British Isles. So, this whole series fascinates me. I think that, perhaps, you don’t realize how many of us have to tape it, like I do, and watch it later, or settle in for hours of watching it. PLEASE, keep going. The real Vikings did !
My wife and i very much enjoy the show…much better than a lot of shows on the tube….
I’m kind of bored with Ragnar as the aging drug addict, and none of his sons have his charisma to carry on as king. Wondering how the story line will continue…. Love Rollo and his little wife! Very disjointed last episode with the huge jump forward in time. I thought it must be a final episode slapped together on the fly- very sloppy. Will still keep watching maybe.
I love, love the show, but my family and I were getting really tired of seeing our hero stoned. In the end there was no need for it as the storyline of him and Yidu just stopped! Why bother writing it in and diminishing Ragna’s character now and not later in the series when it will have some relevance?
This is one of my favorite series, I tape it to watch it since I work nights, please don’t cancel it.
Love this show! its right next to the walking dead for me