Kit Harington’s ‘Gunpowder’ Drama Comes to America on HBO
Game of Thrones fans, rest easy – you will get to see star Kit Harington’s new BBC drama here in the US. And on the same network his other show already airs on!
HBO officially acquired Gunpowder, the three-part British series in which Harington plays Robert Catesby, the true mastermind behind the infamous Gunpowder Plot.
This 17th conspiracy meant to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I, so that a Catholic monarch could be restored to the throne of England. Most of us Yanks are aware of this event because of Guy Fawkes and the Remember, remember the Fifth of November rhyme – okay, and probably also the 2005 film V for Vendetta – but many don’t know the whole story.
