Netflix Officially Loses Its Best Historical Epic Next Month

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Published Nov 14, 2026, 9:00 PM EST

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More than four years after airing its final season, a hit historical epic series is slated to be removed from Netflix this December. It joins other shows superficially marketed as Netflix Originals — for example, The End of the F***ing World and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life — to be removed from the platform this year. These removals happen because Netflix doesn't own distribution rights in perpetuity. According to What's on Netflix, the streamer retains the option to renew them, but in the case of these shows, it chose not to.

Netflix handled international distribution on The End of the F***ing World, which aired from 2017 to 2019 and was removed from the streamer on November 5. Netflix acquired distribution rights to the historical epic in 2018, three years after its debut on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Netflix began co-producing the show after Season 1, not long after it entered the original programming business. This coincided with the peak of Game of Thrones' success, prompting other platforms to seek their own replacements. In many ways, Netflix is still trying to produce a Game of Thrones-level fantasy hit, despite having poached that show's creative duo.

Netflix entered into a similar agreement for the History Channel series Vikings, which debuted in 2013. Netflix aired the show's spin-off, Vikings: Valhalla, between 2022 and 2024. The historical epic slated to be removed from the platform is based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell, and stars Alexander Dreymon and Tobias Santelmann in the lead roles.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong To? Stark · Lannister · Targaryen · Tyrell

Your drink, your weapon, your seat at the table, what you do to somebody who wrongs you. Eight quick calls and we will tell you whose banner you should actually be standing under. Four houses are still in this: the cold one, the rich one, the one with the dragons, and the one that has never needed a sword to get its way.

🐺Stark(Game of Thrones)

🦁Lannister(Game of Thrones)

🐉Targaryen(House of the Dragon)

🌹Tyrell(Game of Thrones)

CLAIM YOUR HOUSE →

What is your go-to at the feast? Everybody has one, and everybody's says something.

ADark ale by the fire, nothing fancy. BWhatever costs the most in the cellar. CWhatever gets poured, drunk far too fast. DOne cup, slowly, while I watch the room.

NEXT QUESTION →

Pick a weapon off the wall. You get one. Choose quickly.

AA greatsword, heavy and honest. BA dagger, plus a second one nobody knows about. CFire, obviously. DNothing sharper than the things I can say.

NEXT QUESTION →

Where do you end up sitting? The seating plan is the politics.

AHigh table, quietly wishing I was outside. BNext to whoever actually matters. CWherever I like, because people move. DA corner seat with a view of everyone.

NEXT QUESTION →

What do people get wrong about you? Reputation arrives about a week before you do.

AThat I am cold, when I am only quiet. BThat I say what I mean the first time. CThat I might be bluffing. DThat I am harmless.

NEXT QUESTION →

One free evening in King's Landing. Where do you go? Nobody plots every single night.

AOut of the city entirely, heading home. BSomewhere expensive, with people who owe me. CWherever it is loud and slightly dangerous. DA long dinner where everybody talks too much.

NEXT QUESTION →

Somebody wrongs you. What happens next? This is the real personality test in Westeros.

AI say it to their face, once. BI wait, because they will need me eventually. CEverybody hears about it before morning. DThey never find out it was me.

NEXT QUESTION →

Your people are in trouble. What is your first move? No time to think about this one.

AI turn up, even when it is a terrible idea. BI pay for the problem to go away. CI go after whoever caused it. DI already called in that favour last week.

NEXT QUESTION →

Be honest. What do you actually want? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your house.

ATo go home, and then to stay there. BTo own the room without sitting at the head of it. CThe crown, with everybody watching. DTo be the one everybody genuinely likes.

REVEAL MY HOUSE →

The Banner Is Raised Your House Is…

Four houses, four completely different theories about how you survive a world like this one. Here is where your banner belongs, what the name would cost you, and what it would buy.

House Stark

You belong in the North, where the weather does most of the arguing and nobody is impressed by a title. The Starks are the only great house on this list who genuinely believe that being right matters more than winning, which is exactly why the show spent eight years punishing them for it.

Your loyalty runs to people rather than to crowns, and you would rather lose a war honestly than win one by doing something you would have to hide.
The Stark tragedy is a simple one, since a family raised to keep its word ended up surrounded by people who treat a promise as an opening bid.
You are the one who thinks about the winter while everybody else is still enjoying the summer, and the realm never thanks anybody for that.
What saves the Starks in the end is not swords. It is the fact that the children grew up and became four completely different kinds of dangerous.

House Lannister

You belong to the house that worked out early on that gold moves faster than armies. Casterly Rock runs on leverage, reputation and the certainty that everybody at the table owes you something, and you are perfectly comfortable with all three.

You play a longer game than the people around you, and you would rather own the outcome quietly than be seen winning in public.
Family is the thing you would burn the realm for, which is both the best and the very worst quality this house has.
Tyrion, Jaime and Cersei are three of the most compelling characters on television precisely because they were raised with everything except the ability to be simple about it.
You are not the villain of your own story. You are simply the one who read the rules properly and decided to use them.

House Targaryen

You belong to the house that conquered a continent and never quite got over it. Targaryens do not ask for a seat at the table, because in their version of events the table was theirs to begin with, and that certainty is either magnificent or catastrophic depending on the week.

You feel things at full volume, and nobody who has ever met a Targaryen has described one as measured.
House of the Dragon made the family far more interesting than the original show could, because here the enemy is not some other house. It is the rest of the bloodline.
Season 3 landed on HBO in June 2026 and pushed the civil war into the part everybody who read the book has been dreading for years.
Your great strength and your great problem are the same thing, which is that you genuinely believe the story was always going to end with you.

House Tyrell

You belong to Highgarden, where nobody raises their voice and everybody gets exactly what they came for. The Tyrells feed the realm, charm the realm and quietly steer the realm, and they have never once needed to win a battle to get their way.

You understand that being liked is a weapon, and you are genuinely better at it than the people who spend their lives trying to be feared.
Olenna is the most quietly ruthless character in the entire series, and she does all of it from a chair with a bowl of fruit in front of her.
Your house wins by being useful, since a kingdom that cannot eat without you will forgive you almost anything.
The risk of being a Tyrell is simple enough. Charm works beautifully on everybody except the one person who has stopped caring what anyone thinks.

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Here's How Long You Have Left to Watch the Historical Epic on Netflix in the U.S.

We're talking, of course, about The Last Kingdom. The show holds a 91% critics' score and a 95% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The show was evidently quite successful for the streamer; according to Netflix's own viewership reports, the show amassed around 155 million views between 2023 and 2025. As with Vikings, Netflix produced a follow-up title for The Last Kingdom as well.

Titled The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, the spin-off movie holds an 82% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It premiered in 2023 and will remain on the streamer until 2033. The main series will be removed from Netflix in the United States on December 9, after being removed from the platform's Canadian library earlier this year. The series will, however, remain on Netflix in the United Kingdom and Australia until 2028. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.