Winter is here!

Your essential guide to Game of Thrones

WITH back-stabbing, canoodling, fights to the death and fierce monsters, it is one of the most talked about shows on TV.

No, we don’t mean Love Island... but fantasy drama Game of Thrones.

Tonight the long-awaited seventh and penultimate series of the awardwinning programme hits our screens.

More than five million people in Britain are hooked on the US show.

But 13 months since the previous instalment, and with such a huge array of characters, it’s easy to forget exactly what everyone is up to.

In the past season alone, Cersei, played by Lena Headey, took out all her enemies, Jon Snow returned from the dead, Daenerys finally got her dragons to play nicely, and the Night King continued the slowest invasion in history with his army of the undead.

After six years of hearing that winter is coming, it has arrived. But don’t go into the new series completely cold.

Here we look at the main characters and say what we think they’ll be doing...