contexts: 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 Composer ( s ) Felix Erskine Lukas Burton Country of origin United States Original language ( s ) English No. of seasons No. of episodes 20 ( list of episodes ) Production Executive producer ( s ) Dan Farah Terry Brooks Eugene Stein Stewart Till Jon Favreau Jonathan Liebesman Alfred Gough Miles Millar Producer ( s ) Jenna Glazier David Gardner Tim Coddington Tim Scanlan Location ( s ) New Zealand Cinematography Michael Bonvillain Rodney Charters Editor ( s ) Peter Gvozdas Chris Peppe Josh Beal Running time 40 -- 43 minutes Production company ( s ) Farah Films Millar Gough Ink Raygun One Sonar Entertainment MTV Production Development Distributor Viacom Media Networks Release Original network MTV ( 2016 ) Spike ( 2017 ) Original release January 5 , 2016 ( 2016 - 01 - 05 ) -- present ( present ) External links Website www.spike.com/shows/the-shannara-chronicles
name: The Shannara Chronicles
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answers.span_text: The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
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