It’s a great time to check out the film, which has a strong Irish connection. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 23 August) is The Northman, one of the greatest action movies of the decade so far. Co-written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch, Nosferatu), this Viking epic is based on […]

7 months ago

‘I was teed up to do a full season!’ Conor McGregor has revealed he had signed up to shoot a full season of one of the biggest TV shows in the world, but ended up “letting people down.” The former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion is starring alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Daniela Melchior in the remake of […]

2 years ago

Netflix have announced that a brand new Vikings TV series is on the way. Vikings: Valhalla will be a new original series from creator Michael Hirst that continues the storytelling of his beloved epic saga. The new show will be filmed at Ashford Studios in Wicklow. The story itself begins 100 years after the original series concludes, dramatising the […]

6 years ago

Fancy taking part in the massively popular TV series Vikings and getting paid for the privilege? Producers of Vikings are looking for people all over Ireland to join them as extras for the latest series of the show, which will begin filming in July 2018. The casting calls – which apply to all people over […]

8 years ago

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9 years ago

It’s more than nine hundred years since the Viking Age, so it’s no surprise we’ve forgotten which of us are descendants of the Scandinavians. However, there is a rather straightforward way to check (and it doesn’t involve growing a beard or pillaging a village). Thousands of […]

9 years ago