The Shannara Chronicles

The Shannara Chronicles
Genre	Fantasy
Created by	Alfred Gough Miles Millar
Based on	The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
Starring	Austin Butler Poppy Drayton Ivana Baquero Manu Bennett Aaron Jakubenko Marcus Vanco Malese Jow Vanessa Morgan Gentry White
Opening theme	"Until We Go Down" by Ruelle
Composers	Felix Erskine Lukas Burton
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20
Production
Executive producers	Dan Farah Terry Brooks Eugene Stein Stewart Till Jon Favreau Jonathan Liebesman Alfred Gough Miles Millar
Producers	Jenna Glazier David Gardner Tim Coddington Tim Scanlan
Production location	New Zealand
Cinematography	Michael Bonvillain Rodney Charters
Editors	Peter Gvozdas Chris Peppe Josh Beal
Running time	40–43 minutes
Production companies	Farah Films Millar Gough Ink Raygun One Sonar Entertainment MTV Production Development
Original release
Network	MTV (2016) Spike (2017)
Release	January 5, 2016 (2016-01-05) – November 22, 2017 (2017-11-22)
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The Shannara Chronicles is an American fantasy drama television series created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. It is an adaptation of The Sword of Shannara trilogy of fantasy novels by Terry Brooks. It follows three heroes as they protect an ancient tree to stop the escape of banished demons. The series was filmed in the Auckland Film Studios and on location elsewhere in New Zealand.

The first season of The Shannara Chronicles premiered on MTV in the United States on January 5, 2016, and consisted of 10 episodes. MTV originally greenlit a second season in April 2016 and in May 2017, it was announced that the series would relocate to Spike (now Paramount Network). The second season premiered on October 11, 2017 and concluded November 22, 2017. On January 16, 2018 it was announced that the series had been cancelled after two seasons and that the producers were shopping the series to other networks. The series was later considered officially concluded.^[1]