{"id":797405,"date":"2026-10-09T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797405\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:24:10","slug":"bloodaxe-release-date-teaser-for-prime-video-historical-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797405\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bloodaxe&#8217;: Release Date &#038; Teaser For Prime Video Historical Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a> has revealed that its highly-anticipated historical series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bloodaxe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bloodaxe\" data-tag=\"bloodaxe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodaxe<\/a> will launch on January 20, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe team behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-hirst\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-hirst\" data-tag=\"michael-hirst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hirst<\/a> and Horatio Hirst series also unveiled a first-look teaser at New York Comic Con Friday, which can be watched above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series chronicles the rise of Norse raiders Erik Bloodaxe (Xavier Molyneux) and his wife Gunnhild, Mother of Kings (Jessica Madsen). It will tell the story of their fight for the throne of Norway, as the land is torn apart by fierce rivals, shifting loyalties, and bloody betrayals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer the synopsis, \u201cWith war looming and chaos consuming the kingdom, drawing in the ruthless Kings of other Scandinavian countries, and even a powerful English ruler, the stage is set for a thundering, cataclysmic, compelling, and utterly magical new Norse saga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 is already in production in Ireland, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mgm-television\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MGM Television<\/a> producing. Michael and Horatio Hirst are the co-creators, showrunners, writers and exec producers of the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast week, Bloodaxe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/prime-video-bloodaxe-maddy-ambus-steven-brand-lasse-steen-1237144250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled further Season 2 cast<\/a> including Maddy Ambus (The Return of Stanley Atwell, Utopia), Steven Brand (Saw X, The Scorpion King) and Lasse Steen (The Promised Land, What Lies Between Us).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdditional executive producers on Bloodaxe include Morgan O\u2019Sullivan under his O\u2019Sullivan Productions label, Steve Stark under his Toluca Pictures label, Arturo Interian, John Weber, and Sheila Hockin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video has revealed that its highly-anticipated historical series Bloodaxe will launch on January 20, 2027. The team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83925,96,59,262184,173735,11523,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bloodaxe","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-michael-hirst","tag-premiere-dates","tag-prime-video","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}