“Vikings” Creator Sets UK Plague Mini-Series – Dark Horizons

“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…

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