“Vikings” and “The Tudors” creator Michael Hirst is re-teaming with History Channel for a mini-series about the Black Death when it hit London in the mid-1660s.
Titled “The Plague Year,” the project hails from A+E Studios and is set in London in a year before the ‘Great Fire’ during one of the all-time worst outbreaks of the bubonic plague.
The series will profile a society in turmoil that finds Londoners leaving the city in droves, while those who remain (whether by choice or not) have their resolve tested and try to keep going as things fall to pieces.
Hirst is executive producing, with Coleman Herbert (“Rectify,” “Brave New World”) writing. Hirst has an overall deal at MGM Television and is prepping a “Vikings” sequel series called “Valhalla” for Netflix.
Following the cancellations of “Project Blue Book” and “Knightfall” in May, the remaining episodes of the sixth and final season of “Vikings” remain the only scripted series on the History network’s slate at present.
Source: The Live Feed
