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‘The Last Kingdom’ Season 3: Destiny is All

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Welcome back to the eternal medieval struggle between the Saxons, or the English, and the Danes, or the Vikings if you want to get technical. Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon), son of Uhtred, born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, has pledged himself to the Saxon King Alfred (David Dawson) and served faithfully and well for years at this point.

Now as Alfred’s son prepares to marry and become King of burgeoning England himself, Alfred’s demand that Uhtred pledge himself to Prince Edward (Timothy Innes) for the rest of his life creates a rift between them, even as the Saxons and Danes prepare to go to war yet again!

So yes, essentially Uhtred defies Alfred’s attempt at signing over the entire rest of his life to his son, and leaves Wessex to go rejoin the Danes, at least temporarily. The various factions of Danes are still quite at each-other’s throats, with each clan leader having his own plots for advancement, and it doesn’t help that Aethelwold (Harry McIntyre), Alfred’s nephew and resentful usurper, thinks he can get away with fomenting trouble amongst the Danes too.

Harald Bloodhair (Ola Rapace) has himself a witchy consort called Skade (Thea Sofie Loch Naess), who decides with her feminine wiles and blood magic she’s going to either have Uhtred for her own, or curse him to death. Either option seems fine for her. Many of the middle episodes are dedicated to Uhtred either chasing after or trying desperately to escape the wicked wiles of Skade.

The decline of King Alfred’s health is sending everyone into a tizzy of one-up-manship, as both Saxon and Dane prepare for a new King, or to carve themselves their own kingdom out of the ruins. The Norsemen are uniting, or appearing to at least, under the ragged banner of Uhtred’s brother Ragnar (Peter Gantzler), and just as it looks like he’s finally going to have a real army to crush the Saxons with, a surprise assassin comes out of left field and kills Ragnar but good.

This, of course, leads to the inevitable fracturing of the Danes clans, and a vow from Ragnar’s wife Brida (Emily Cox), to bring his soul out of Niflheim, the equivalent of purgatory for those warriors who didn’t die in battle, and send him on to Valhalla by slaying the one who killed him. After a bit of hemming and hawing, Uhtred determines to help Brida bring glory to Ragnar’s soul quest, too.

Based on The Saxon Stories’= books from Bernard Cornwell, Season 3 is closest to the fifth and sixth novels, ‘The Burning Land’ and ‘Death of Kings’ respectively. As there are four more books to build on, the show’s left-open ending could very well invite a next season. Though season three deals with the deaths of many beloved, and some very not-so, characters, Uhtred Lord of Bebbanburg is still alive and kicking, surrounded by friends and family he forged himself regardless of bloodline or parentage, and I really want to see him continue to kick all kinds of medieval ass!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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