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JEREMY Paxman is stepping down as the host of University Challenge after 28 years, the BBC has announced.
He will film his last episode in autumn, with his final series of the programme airing on BBC Two from August 29 through to summer 2023.
The journalist and television broadcaster (72) said: “I’ve had a blast hosting this wonderful series for nearly 29 years.”
FANS of Game of Thrones will be familiar with Daenerys and the rest of House Targaryen, the dragonriding noble family who once ruled the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel series created by George RR Martin and Ryan Condal, dives deep into the history of Westeros some 200 years before the events of the original series, telling the Targaryens’ bloody tale of civil war, rivalry, betrayal and a thirst for power.
Here’s everything you need to know about the eagerly-awaited prequel.
BEFORE the prequel comes to Sky Atlantic and Now, catches up with Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Emma D’Arcy and the rest of the cast.
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“He was not somebody that abused his privilege in any way — he took his role as King very responsibly,” says Considine (48).
“It was my job to imbue him with as much humanity as I possibly could. I thought that was refreshing, from the world that we knew of Game of Thrones, that he wasn’t somebody who was driven by power. And he wasn’t a tyrant. He was a reasonable man.”
Prince Daemon, the heir presumptive to the Iron Throne, is almost the opposite to his brother Viserys. Charismatic but violently unpredictable, he’s a fearsome warrior and dragonrider who, Smith says, is “dark, compulsive, complex”.
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