King & Conqueror [BBC]

The Black Oil

Lots of soldiers and ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anS9xQEPTsU

Clareman

They are going big after the Game of Thrones vibe there 😁

odyssey06

According to wiki release date on BBC is 24th August.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123669292#Comment_123669292

Or Game of Thrones went after big William the Bastid vibes.
Seriously, hopefully this is good. Fascinating part of English history, especially after Harold just beat a Norwegian army two weeks earlier (Harald Hardrada deserves a show of his own).

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123669850#Comment_123669850

The march back from Stamford Bridge to Hastings to face William was in and of itself an incredible feat. Nevermind that he walloped the Vikings there and ended the Viking influence in Britain too.

expectationlost

I dont know how your supposed to know what is going on?

daheff

seems to be on randomly on the BBC. Sunday and monday night at slightly different times. No idea when ep 3/4 is on? next sunday?

story is a bit garbled too. a little difficult to figure out who is who and what exactly is going on

ednwireland

i found it good nice change from the tudors, but I do know who most of the characters are. and the usual historical liberties taken !

Charlo30

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123755451#Comment_123755451

If you're not well up on the period you're going to find yourself confused at times as there were a lot of players. In terms of historical liberties, so far there no worst they other similar shows

brian_t

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123755433#Comment_123755433

It continues next Sunday and the following Sunday.

Hodors Appletart

There IS a Hardrada show, it's Vikings Valhalla, and it was cancelled just as William was introduced as a character, a child, at the end of the final season. I think they wanted to do one more season ending with the Battle of Hastings.

I love the whole lot of TLK, Vikings, and VV and I see this as a spiritual continuation of those shows. I know TLK is a fictionalised story with the main character being a fictional person, but he interacts with real historical figures throughout, and there is some time overlap with the early Vikings series. Both TLK, Vikings and now K&C have the same throughline, leading to the BOH and the end of the Viking Age.

silliussoddius

I read The Last Kingdom series of books and would recommend them. As you say there is a solid basis of real history there, at the end of each book the author states things he may have made up or exaggerated.
There is one book that is based in a battle mentioned in historical sources, it is basically referred to in one sentence but he built a fictional story around it.
The Rest is History podcast had a good episode in April that gives a lot of background and context to the Norman invasion.

Hippodrome Song Owl

Watched the first episode of this last night. I'm reasonably familiar with the historical facts, but I found it very difficult to follow it at first in terms of who exactly everyone was outside the two leads, particularly the women. I spent half the episode on pause consulting the imdb cast list to confirm who was who, and then Wikipedia articles for the different figures.

I did enjoy it though, and now I've figured out the details I'm really looking forward to episode two when I get a chance.

brian_t

If you watch this on BBC1 Northern Ireland, it switches to BBC2 this coming Sunday.