The Fireside

This week, we had the season finale of Season 5 [Part B] and it has also been announced that Season 6 will be the end of the show. However, since it'll be 20 episodes, expect it to be once again split into 2: Season 6 [Part A] and Season 6 [Part B]. I'm hoping that the final episode of the entire show will be approx 90 minutes, as well as possibly Episode 11 (the first episode of Part B.) On the ending of the show, creator Michael Hirst has this to say: "I always knew where I wanted the show to go and more or less where it would end if I was given the opportunity. What I was trying to do was write the saga of Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons. After six seasons and 89 episodes, that’s what I felt — finally — I’d done. We stopped shooting the final episode in November last year and I felt that I’d said all I needed to say about Ragnar and his sons. I told my saga, and I’d been very fortunate to be given that opportunity by MGM and History. I had no reason to want to ...

"When are the new episodes of Game of Thrones  coming?" is a question I get asked frequently after the final episode in a year ends. Why, the same as any other TV show - a year later.  One show I've been watching in Thrones'  off-season is Vikings  on History Channel. Do not dismiss it as Game of Thrones  lite, or copying Game of Thrones , or any of that. Both shows are similar, and different, to one another. For one thing, even though Vikings  has the odd time-jump now and then, the plot is a lot more streamlined than Thrones' . The focus of the story is much more simple, yet it is equally brilliant.  The sex and violence is more light, but that does not mean these Northerners (the word 'viking' is never said on the show) are any less soft.  I am not offering Vikings  as a series to replace Game of Thrones  (far from it), merely saying that when Game of Thrones  doesn't have new episodes, you should be checking out Vikings...

There's a TV series right u p my alley which has somehow escaped my sight!