I’m a fan of New Amsterdam, and hated when FOX canceled it. Its star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has been in a couple of shows, but none have stuck. Maybe joining Sean Bean’s HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones will do the trick.

THR’s the Live Feed reports that Coster-Waldau, recent seen in Ron Moore’s aborted FOX pilot for the little-seen Virtuality, would play Jaime Lannister, one of the king’s guards and a ruthless usurper of the previous king, which means Coster-Waldau will be butting heads with Sean Bean’s Ned Stark, who unlike Lannister is a loyal servant of the king.

Coster-Waldau joins a cast that includes Bean as the lead, Ned Stark; Richard Madden as Stark’s eldest son, Robb; Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont, a disgraced knight; Alfie Allen as Theon, Stark’s young ward; Sophie Turner as Stark’s eldest daughter, Sansa; and Maisie Williams as Stark’s young tomboy daughter, Arya.

New recent additions to the show besides Coster-Waldau include Tamzin Merchant from Showtime’s The Tudors, Mark Addy, Kit Harrington, Jennifer Ehle, Jack Gleeson, Peter Dinklage and Harry Lloyd.

Game of Thrones is an adaptation of the George R.R. Martin fantasy-book series.

Goodbye, slick suit; hello, clunky medieval armor.