“These titles show our huge commitment to innovating in specialist factual at the BBC and I can’t wait for these titles to be on air.”
Titled Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family, the two-part series will see the 41-year-old wearing armour and the classic dress his ancestors once wore.
“Danny is just an incredible talent and he has an amazing history in his family tree,” he told The Guardian.
From eating sheep’s tongue, as his Viking relatives once did, or learning to hunt like William the Conqueror (his 30x great-grandfather), Dyer will relive 800 years of British history.