{"id":34274,"date":"2025-08-31T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:16:17","slug":"king-conqueror-review-bbcs-hopes-for-a-historical-whodunnit-fall-at-the-first-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34274\/","title":{"rendered":"King &#038; Conqueror review: BBC\u2019s hopes for a historical whodunnit fall at the first hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nBack to the past we go as the worlds of William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold Godwinson collide in bloody fashion in new epic drama\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William of Normandy, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e9ea6fc9-e26a-46b2-ad61-de4bc1db115e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">William of Normandy, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The thing about history is that there is an awful lot of it about, and it only ever gets bigger. The stuff that happens today is tomorrow\u2019s history, and the potential to be brain fodder for future generations forced to study the subject at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So when the new BBC show King &amp; Conqueror kicks off with \u2018crown a new king and conqueror and the rest is history\u2019, you have a fair idea where we\u2019re going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to the past we go as the worlds of William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold Godwinson collide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[3412,26705,18,117,19,17,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-34274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-billy-weir","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}