Gunpowder TUESDAY, 8.30PM, BBC FIRST
It’s been described as “Game of Thrones minus dragons and plus history”– and rightly so. Kit Harington leaves Jon Snow behind and plays Robert Catesby, best known as the mastermind behind the infamous Gunpowder Plot, orchestrated to blow up the English Parliament’s House of Lords in 1605. Interestingly, Kit – an executive producer on the show – is a direct descendant of Catesby himself! “It’s been a family curiosity for as long as I can remember,” he reveals.