KING & CONQUEROR: FIRST LOOK IMAGES FROM BBC HISTORICAL DRAMA STARRING JAMES NORTON

First-look pictures have been released for King & Conqueror, a new eight-part historical epic coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One in 2025.

As previously announced, the series will star James Norton as Harold, Earl of Wessex, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William, Duke of Normandy, Emily Beecham as Edith Swan-neck, Clémence Poésy as Matilda, Eddie Marsan as King Edward, Juliet Stevenson as Lady Emma.

Plus Jean-Marc Barr as King Henry, Luther Ford as Tostig, Geoff Bell as Godwin, Elliott Cowan as Sweyn, Bo Bragason as Queen Gunhild, Bjarne Henriksen as Earl Siward, Olivier Masucci as Baldwin and Clare Holman as Gytha.

Further cast announced includes Elander Moore (Kaos, Interview with a Vampire) as Morcar, Indy Lewis (Industry, La Fortuna) as Margaret, Jason Forbes (My Lady Jane, A Gentleman in Moscow) as Thane Thomas, Ingvar Sigurdsson (The Northman, Godland)as Fitzosbern, Ines Asserson (Royalteen, Skam) as Judith, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson (Heartstone, Summerlight… and Then Comes the Night) as Hardrada.

Written by Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes, The Frankenstein Chronicles) and with the opening episode directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Trapped, Everest, Adrift), King & Conqueror will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

King & Conqueror is the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea.

Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.

The BBC has acquired broadcasting rights for the series in the United Kingdom and it will be distributed outside of the UK by Paramount Global Content Distribution.