The BBC has dispensed with a significant portion of its budget to hire a star-studded cast for its upcoming eight-part historical epic on 1066, the pivotal moment that transformed England.
First glimpses of this series once again give cause to disappoint and frustrate historians and Catholics alike. Early signs suggest that King and Conqueror (2025) shall in all likeliness fall into the usual, farcically inaccurate tropes and caricatures about the medieval era.
Once again, clothing consisting only of drab colours and ubiquitous filth are inaccurately the rule. While informed historians have, even before its release, already been quick to deride its repetition of these directorial costuming mis-choices for the medieval era, commentators and journalists such as TheSpectator’s David Abulafa have also criticised its predictable anachronistic casting choices based on "diversity".
