Considering that the first series of Game of Thrones ran for eight seasons across about as many years, it’s not inconceivable that for the next half a century there will be some form of Game of Thrones content on your television. If you’re a superfan, you’re probably soothed by this knowledge. If you’re Westeros-agnostic then you have our sympathies.

The first of these five extra Game of Thrones series will be a prequel set thousands of years in the past and will star Naomi Watts as a “charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret.” Written by George R.R Martin, the author of the Game of Thrones book series and Jane Goldman, who penned the script for the Kingsman sequel, it will focus on a time period in Westeros’ history that bore witness to the longest and darkest winters the land had ever seen and heralded the arrival of the Others (wildlings, White Walkers, you know the drill) into Westeros.

Watts will star alongside Josh Whitehouse, the British actor best known for his turn as the sexy, floppy-haired Hugh Armitage on Poldark.

Hugh’s function on the show is as some serious eye candy for Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), left abandoned by her sometimes-feckless husband Ross (Aidan Turner), the other gorgeous guy on Poldark. What’s a girl to do when there’s the Platonic ideal of a Romantic Hero – that’s Hugh, a man who we would describe as mostly cheekbones – staring at her with such doe-eyed intensity?

The Game of Thrones prequel has nicked its male lead from Poldark