The Tudors

The Tudors is a Feuilleton televised in Canadian coproduction - American - Irish created by Michael Hirst and diffused starting from April 1st 2007 on Showtime. This serial is new in France.

Synopsis

This serial tells the life of Henry VIII at the beginning of its reign.

Distribution

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers : Henri VIII
Sam Neill: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Jeremy Northam: Sir Thomas More
Steven Waddington: Duke of Buckingham
Henry Czerny: Duke of Norfolk
Nick Dunning: Thomas Boleyn
Natalie Dormer: Anne Boleyn
Perdita Weeks: Mary Boleyn
Maria Doyle Kennedy: the queen Catherine
Matt Ryan: Pace
Henry Cavill: Charles Brandon
Kristen Holden-Ried: Compton
Joe Van Moyland: Thomas Tallis
Gabrielle Anwar: Princess Margaret
James Frain: Thomas Cromwell
Kate O' Toole: Lady Salisbury
Padraic Delaney: George Boleyn
Callum Blue: Knivert

Episodes

First season

Comments

After the diffusion of only three episodes, Showtime announced that a second season will be diffused in 2008.

being a historical work of fiction, freedoms were taken with historical reality. Ansi the character of the sister of Henri, called Margaret Princess in the series, is a mixture of the two sisters of the king: events of the life of his/her younger sister, Marie, with the name of his/her older sister Marguerite Tudor in order to avoid any confusion with the girl of Henri, Marie. The younger sister by king, Marie, was actually married with Charles Brandon once widowed, but its first husband was the French king Louis XII, and not the king of the Portugal as told in the series. This marriage lasted a few months and not a few days, in addition there is no historical proof which it put an end to the days of its first husband in his sleep in order to escape a marriage with a man much older than it. Without counting that these two marriages actually have place had ten years earlier than what is represented in the series.

See too

External bonds

Official site
French Site

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