Netflix has confirmed that The Last Kingdom will return for a fifth season. Speaking about the renewal, Nigel Marchant, Executive Producer at Carnival Films, said: "We are really proud of The Last Kingdom, which continues to entertain audiences all over the world.

Season 4 of The Last Kingdom has finally been announced to release on Netflix in April 2020. Here's everything we know so far about the series including where it is in production, who's starring in season 4 and what we can expect.

Now, there was a historical figure called Uhtred the Bold who was the Earl of Northumbria — but he was born about 100 years after the actual Alfred the Great died, so they wouldn't have known of each other. ... So Uhtred on the show is fictional, but he's definitely at least loosely based on a historical figure.

The Last Kingdom takes place in the proto-England of the late ninth and early 10th centuries, during the decades leading up to the unification of the four independent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia.