
Tomorrow night History premieres its third season of the popular series
Vikings. The new 10-episode season stars Clive Standen as Rollo.
Standen recently talked to the media about what fans can expect in the upcoming season.
The actor talked to the press about part of what resonates about the show with viewers, one being its originality. "...I think what makes it original is that there’s nothing like this on TV. The only shows that people can compare it to are fantasy shows, because they have the dragons and they have the monsters and the dwarves and the elves and things. We don’t have any of that, but because of the Viking belief system, and the gods they believed in, it verges on the fantastical.
"...These are things that these people believed in. So we get to tie it all out and the screen. We had these Viking characters the way they believed this is all true, and the gods themselves. So it does verge on something that’s otherworldly; and because the Vikings did all the things they did over the hundreds of years they did it, the conquests, the action, the raiding, the adventure, the technology of the boats, it suddenly brought in a completely different demographic that are used to watching historical dramas on TV. Before
Vikings came along, historical dramas were in that bracket of Sunday night television where your mom and dad would sit down and watch a bit of
Pride and Prejudice, or watch Keira Knightley in a corset. Now, you can sit down with your parents, be sitting and watching these historical raiders colonizing and raiding half of Europe and these eother continents, and I think it just makes so incredible event TV.