EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the launch of Season 1, Prime Video has given Michael Hirst‘s Bloodaxe a second season order. The first season launches in early 2027 on the streamer and Hirst told Deadline filming starts on Season 2 in a few weeks.

It had previously been reported that the second season was in the works but we can tell you it is confirmed and cameras will soon roll in Ireland.

Hirst, who also penned The Tudors, spoke about his new show at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival. The veteran scribe was behind Vikings, which was a huge hit.

Bloodaxe is also a vikings story, albeit a very different one to his earlier show. It is set 100 years later and tells the story of 10^th Century viking warrior 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.

Xavier Molyneux plays the titular warrior and Jessica Madsen his wife Gunnhild. Levi Miller, Rod Hallett, Alina Tomnikov, Sisse Marie, Rune Temte and Jesper Christensen also star. Hirst created the show with his son Horatio Hirst.

“As the writers and showrunners of Bloodaxe, Horatio and I are very excited to announce that Amazon have also already commissioned a second season of our new Norse saga for Prime Video, which begins shooting in Ireland within a few weeks,” said Michael Hirst. “We recognise how fortunate we are and we would both like to thank Peter Friedlander and Amazon MGM Studios for their belief in us and in this new incarnation of a show which means so much to millions of people across the world. We should add that we are so proud of the way Bloodaxe has turned out, in terms of its incredible storylines, its powerful invocation of Viking beliefs, its dramatic recreation of the way that Christianity has started to overcome the pagan world, and – not least – the way we use magic realism in an effort to induct the audience into a Viking mind-set. Basically, now the cat is out of the bag, we are thrilled that we can soon offer a world-wide audience the chance to re-enter the beautiful Norse world.”

Bloodaxe is created, written, and executive produced by Michael Hirst and Horatio Hirst. Additional executive producers include Steve Stark under his Toluca Pictures banner, Arturo Interian, Morgan O’Sullivan, John Weber, and Sheila Hockin. The series is produced by MGM Television, a division of Amazon MGM Studios.