Vikings: Valhalla Showrunner Jeb Stuart on Planning 3 Seasons 

Showrunner of "Vikings: Valhalla" Jeb Stuart on Scheduling Three Seasons At Once

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Vikings fans may relax in the knowledge that everything is under control—at least in terms of the plot.

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Things are, to put it mildly, getting a little nasty by the end of Season 1 in both England and Kattegat.

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Fortunately, when Season 2 premieres on January 12, despite the possibility that things would worsen

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for the protagonists, showrunner Jeb Stuart says everything is proceeding as planned.

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Sam Corlett (Leif Erikson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eirksdóttir), and Leo Sutter (Harald Sigurdsson)

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participated in a live Q&A session with Steve Weintraub of Collider,

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where Stuart was asked if the programme plotted out its plot from season to season.

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To that, he simply said, "No, we're definitely not going season by season."

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