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The Last Kingdom has 2 nominations in this year's BAFTA Craft Awards, which were announced today. The awards will be held on April 24th 2016.

Special, Visual & Graphic Effects in 2016: The Last Kingdom - Bluebell
Titles & Graphic Identity in 2016: The Last Kingdom - Paul McDonnell, Ben Hanbury, Hugo Moss

The Royal Television Society has published the nominee list for the 2016 RTS Programme Awards, and The Last Kingdom has been nominated in the best Drama Series category! The award ceremony will be held on March 22nd.

While the BBC has made no official announcement about a second series on social media, it seems that the announcer at the end of the final epispde of series 1 last night confirmed that The Last Kingdom will be returning. Author Bernard Cornwell tweeted as much this morning, too. This is good news for Joseph fans, as his character returns! 

So there WILL be another series of #TheLastKingdom The adventure doesn't end!

— Bernard Cornwell (@BernardCornwell) December 10, 2015

Finally we have some stills of Joseph Millson as Aelfric in The Last Kingdom, thanks to Far Far Away. There are 5 great HQ photos of Joseph uploaded, check them out on Far Far Away. 

While the BBC America broadcast began at the beginning of October, the UK finally gets to see The Last Kingdom tonight on BBC2 at 9pm.

The Last Kingdom 9pm, BBC2 Time for some Saxon violence. The BBC makes a move into Game of Thrones territory with this adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s historical novels, in which invading Danes rampage across ninth-century Britain. This opener is heavy on prologue, with 10-year-old hero Uhtred a bystander in the Northumbrian fracas that will shape his fate. But there’s no shortage of GoT-style realpolitik, with betrayals, decapitations, mooning Vikings and, best of all, Rutger Hauer as a perpetually self-amused blind poet.