Brooding in the bath in the altogether, James Norton’s smouldering soak can mean only one thing.
And that’s the arrival of a new gripping Sunday night TV drama, with its usual dose of male nudity to set female viewers’ pulses racing.
Norton’s hirsute chest follows Aidan Turner’s topless scythe-wielding Poldark, Tom Hiddleston’s saucy shower scene in The Night Manager, and Theo James’s bare buttocks in the raunchy adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon.
Happy Valley actor Norton, 40, stars as Harold of Wessex in the new 1066 drama King & Conqueror, which airs on BBC One tomorrow at 9pm.
The historical drama chronicles the tumultuous time preceding the Battle of Hastings and the duel for power between Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy, played by Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
While the show is set in England, Normandy, Flanders and Norway, it was filmed in Iceland.
Brooding in the bath in the altogether, James Norton’s smouldering soak (pictured) can mean only one thing – and that’s the arrival of a new gripping Sunday night TV drama, with its usual dose of male nudity to set female viewers’ pulses racing
Happy Valley actor Norton, 40, stars as Harold of Wessex (pictured) in the new 1066 drama King & Conqueror, which airs on BBC One tomorrow at 9pm
Norton’s hirsute chest follows Aidan Turner’s topless scythe-wielding Poldark (pictured), Tom Hiddleston’s saucy shower scene in The Night Manager, and Theo James’s bare buttocks in the raunchy adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon
It explores the somewhat friendlier relationship between the pair before their 1066 clash.
Norton, who was also executive producer of the eight-part series, said: ‘The fact they fought alongside each other, brothers in arms, in Normandy, gives us a lot in terms of how close they had become.
‘Then this was reversed by the time they got to the Battle of Hastings.’
