The BBC has premiered the first trailer for “King and Conqueror,” the upcoming eight-part TV series about the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066 – one of the bloodiest and most well-known historical battles Britain has ever seen.
The story follows that clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a millennia, 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.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars as William, Duke of Normandy – later to be known as William the Conqueror – who faces off against James Norton as King Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England.
The series also stars Emily Beecham as Edith Swan-neck, Clémence Poésy as Matilda, Jean-Marc Barr as King Henry, Elliott Cowan as Sweyn, Bjarne Henriksen as Earl Siward, Oliver Masucci as Baldwin, Indy Lewis as Margaret, Jason Forbes as Thane Thomas, Ingvar Sigurdsson as Fitzosbern, Ines Asserson as Judith, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson as Hardrada and Léo Legrand as Odo.
The show is created and executive produced by Michael Robert Johnson and executive produced by Norton, Coster-Waldau, Kitty Kaletsky, Baltasar Kormákur, Magnus Sigurdsson, Dave Clarke, Richard Halliwell, Lindsey Martin and Ed Clarke. Kormákur directed the premiere episode.
The series, produced by CBS Studios, launches next month with the BBC airing it in the UK. Paramount Global Content Distribution is selling it elsewhere.
