The Tudors
It's Good to Be King.
The Tudors (2007-2010)
Seasons: 4,
episodes: 38
Episode runtime: 55 min
Average rating:
8.1/10
171 883
Status
Completed
Creators
Scenario
Composer
Trevor Morris
Producer
Bob Munroe
Actors
David Alpay
Mark Smeaton
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Henry VIII of England
Perdita Weeks
Mary Boleyn
Sam Neill
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Callum Blue
Anthony Knivert
Henry Cavill
Charles Brandon
James Frain
Thomas Cromwell
Henry Czerny
Duke of Norfolk
Short description
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
Season 1 Desperate for an heir, England's King Henry VIII shuns his wife Queen Katherine and casts his eye on the alluring Anne Boleyn, while Cardinal Wolsey's loyalty to the Catholic Church and the Pope strains his relationship to the king.
|
10 | 2007-04-01 | 7.5 |
Season 2 Henry quickly embraces Lutheran ideas, breaks with the Church, and marries Anne Boleyn, but Brandon sows seeds of doubt about his new queen's fidelity in the king's mind; a loyalty oath pits Henry against his mentor Thomas More.
|
10 | 2008-03-30 | 7.2 |
Season 3 Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour is happy, fruitful and tragically short; the king brutally suppresses a rebellion against his religious reforms; England, Spain and the Pope ally against England, forcing Henry to marry a Protestant.
|
8 | 2009-04-05 | 7.3 |
Season 4 Henry's marriage to randy, unfaithful teenager Catherine Howard ends in her swift execution, but he finds domestic tranquility at last with the steady Catherine Parr; a war with France and Brandon's death signal Henry's waning days.
|
10 | 2010-04-11 | 7.8 |
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of the final season, Jonathan Rhys Meyers refused to gain weight or wear fattening costumes to portray the image of an aged and bloated Henry VIII on screen.
- All scenes with Peter O'Toole (1932-2013) were filmed within a week.
- The final role of Simon Ward (1941-2012).
- Before settling on Joely Richardson, the producers considered offering the role of Catherine Parr to actress Gillian Anderson.
- Anita Briem left the project before the start of filming for Season 3. At the insistence of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, her role was offered to actress Annabelle Wallis.
- Filming for Season 1 took place between June and September 2006.
- In the series, the cardinal informs Thomas Wolsey of the imminent death of Pope Alexander. There is an error in the name here. In reality, it was Pope Adrian VI who died in 1523, succeeded by Pope Clement VII.
- In the series, Cardinal Wolsey committed suicide, but in reality, he fell seriously ill on his way to London and died from the disease.
- In the series, Henry VIII is often referred to as the King of Ireland, but the title of King of Ireland actually only came into existence in 1541. Therefore, during the events depicted in the series, Henry VIII should have been called only the Lord of Ireland.
- In season 4, during a parliamentary session on December 22, 1545, we see Charles Brandon among those gathered. In reality, he died on August 22, 1545.
- The series shows only one illegitimate child of Henry VIII—Henry FitzRoy, who dies in early childhood. In reality, Henry FitzRoy died at the age of 17 from rapid consumption, having previously married Lady Mary Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.
- In the series, Anne Boleyn was the mistress of Thomas Wyatt. In reality, only one romance of Anne Boleyn is known—with Lord Henry Percy, son of the Duke of Northumberland, an engagement that was broken off not without the assistance of King Henry VIII.
- In the fourth season of the series, the character Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is depicted as the uncle of the King's fifth wife, Catherine Howard. In reality, he was her cousin.
- In the series, Catherine Howard finds Sir Francis Bryan so that Charles Brandon can introduce her to the King. In reality, Catherine was found and introduced to the King by her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk.
- Sir Francis Bryan's line to Lady Mary, 'if you were my daughter, I would strike you,' actually belongs to Norfolk.
- Charles Brandon suppresses Robert Aske's rebellion instead of Norfolk, and leads the conspiracy against Thomas Cromwell in his place.
- Lady Salisbury was executed after the King's marriage to Catherine Howard, whereas in the series, she is executed while the King is still married to Anne of Cleves.
- In reality, Brandon's butler was killed by Norfolk's men, whereas in the series, he was killed by Thomas Boleyn's men.
- In the series, starting from season 3, the King is married by Bishop Gardiner of Winchester. This is historically inaccurate. The King was married by Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- In the series, the Duke of Norfolk told Charles that his father was executed by Henry VIII's father. In reality, the Duke's father, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, died of natural causes in 1524. It was he (and not Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk) who presided over the trial of the Duke of Buckingham in the court of peers in 1521 and passed the death sentence.
- In the series, Richard Rich uses provocation to obtain a confession from Thomas More that the King cannot be the head of the Church according to Divine Law. Richard Rich served as the star witness for the prosecution at the trial where Thomas More was sentenced to so-called qualified execution (hanging, evisceration, quartering, and beheading), which was replaced by a simple beheading by Henry VIII's decision. In reality, all of this happened to John Fisher.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
