Who's the first new cast member to join House of the Dragon season three? Here's everything we know about the next season of the show.

Last we heard of him, Ormund was assembling his forces to confront Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) in season 2’s lukewarm finale. His army was on the march accompanied by Daeron Targaryen’s new dragon, Tessarion.

The Hightower family tree has grown a new branch with news from Variety that James Norton is joining House of the Dragon as Ormund Hightower, the first cousin of Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and the nephew of Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans).

James Norton has been signed for the role of Ormund Hightower in HBO's House of the Dragon in its forthcoming third season.

Even though the second season hasn't matched the record-breaking numbers of the first season, which premiered with 9.986 million viewers in the summer of 2022, the continuous rise in viewership is a positive sign,