Added encouragement comes from his newest infatuation, a young beauty named Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer, Casanova).Įager to legally take Boleyn as his bride, Henry commissions his religious advisor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey ( Jurassic Park's Sam Neill), to secure his divorce from the papacy by any means necessary. Knowing that only a legitimate son will be recognized as an heir, he becomes convinced that he must persuade the Catholic Church to grant him a divorce. Frustrated with the failure of Queen Catherine of Aragon (Maria Doyle Kennedy) to produce a son, Henry (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, August Rush, "Elvis") begins to look elsewhere to forge a family.
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That changes, though, when the series starts to play around with the one word that makes Henry VIII the most interesting: divorce. Rather than a meaningful account of this important chapter in Western history, the show initially feels more akin to The CW's "Gossip Girl".
Affirming any of your sneaky suspicions about what Showtime might crank out, the first couple of episodes are confusing, not particularly compelling, and seemingly more concerned with setting a record for nudity and orgasms in primetime than telling a story. With a chronologically structured series of events and a ready-made ensemble of characters, "The Tudors" stood a very good chance of success from the outset.Īnd yet the show isn't very good at its outset at all. The hour-long television series turns out to be as apt a platform for the story as the theater stage. Wisely realizing the immense dramatic capital wrapped up in King Henry VIII's throne, creator Michael Hirst follows in the footsteps of William Shakespeare before him. In the midst of the Protestant reformation, Henry defied the Pope and officially broke his country's ties with Catholicism, establishing the Church of England and declaring himself its supreme leader by divine right.
One of the most significant monarchs to reign over England, Henry bucked the religious dogma of his day, becoming the first king to divorce his wife and ultimately taking five more before he died. Specifically, it's the famous King Henry VIII - or Henry 8, as Showtime likes to call him - who stands in the spotlight. One of Showtime's newest original series, "The Tudors", does just that, returning to 16th Century England to focus on the titular dynasty that governed for more than a hundred years. History repeats itself and nowhere is it regurgitated more often than in the world of film and television. Two slim-line cases in cardboard box Four single-sided, dual-layered discs (DVD-9s) Running Time: 556 Minutes (10 episodes) / Rating: Not Ratedġ.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen (Original Broadcast Ratio)ĭolby Digital 5.1 (English), Dolby Surround 2.0 (English), Dolby Digital Mono (Spanish)ĭVD Release Date: JanuSeason 1 Airdates: ApJune 10, 2007 Notable Recurring Characters: Joe Van Moyland (Thomas Tallis), Kristen Holden-Ried (Compton), Padraic Delaney (George Boleyn), Gabrielle Anwar (Princess Margaret), Declan Conlon (Mendoza), Jamie Thomas King (Thomas Wyatt), John Kavanagh (Cardinal Campeggio), Blathnaid McKeown (Princess Mary), Perdita Weeks (Mary Boleyn) Regular Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (King Henry VIII), Sam Neill (Cardinal Thomas Wolsey), Callum Blue (Anthony Knivert), Henry Cavill (Charles Brandon), Henry Czerny (Norfolk), Natalie Dormer (Anne Boleyn), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Queen Catherine of Aragon), Nick Dunning (Thomas Boleyn), James Frain (Thomas Cromwell), Jeremy Northam (Sir Thomas More) Creator/Writer: Michael Hirst / Executive Producers: Michael Hirst, Benjamin Silverman, Teri Weinberg, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Sheila Hockin, Morgan O'Sullivanĭirectors: Charles McDougall, Steve Shill, Brian Kirk, Alison Maclean, Ciarán Donnelly
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