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Post by marion on Feb 10, 2021 12:23:58 GMT
The BBC bonkfest The Tudors is being aired on More4 from Thursday 18 February at 10.00.
Hurrah! I have the DVD box set which has been sitting next to the TV since lockdown 1 so this might finally nudge me to watch it again.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 12:49:16 GMT
I really didn't like this. Elizabeth R, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Shadow of the Tower were much better, to my mind.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 10, 2021 13:31:08 GMT
It had it's place, it was fantasy but that's how many people get their introduction to history.
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Post by geometryman on Feb 10, 2021 23:20:20 GMT
I enjoyed it, despite (or maybe because of?) its heavy tinkering with history throughout, but don't think I'll be embarking on a re-watch at the moment.
My first thought on seeing it in the schedules was that it's a strange decision by More4 to pick this particular show for a rerun - perhaps inspired by The Great, with its similar attitude to actual history, running on C4 (which I'm still watching and enjoying btw, but The Tudors was better).
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Post by pandaeyes on Feb 11, 2021 11:20:54 GMT
I never saw it the first time around, so made sure to mark it off in the Radio Times this time.
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Post by bidiein on Feb 11, 2021 15:14:25 GMT
It DID stick to the historical facts with accuracy though - just portrayed everyone as a soap star! And Henry should have been recast between wives 3 and 4. He was no longer dish of the day once he was unable to ride after the jousting accident which, some historians reckon, caused her personality to change and not in a good way.
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Post by marion on Feb 11, 2021 16:05:43 GMT
I was rather pleased he stayed much the same! 😏
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Post by bidiein on Feb 11, 2021 16:37:17 GMT
Oh yes - very easy on the eye. But historically he was no longer the viral man he had been in his glorious youth.
More Michelin Man than Monarch sadly.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 11, 2021 19:14:18 GMT
Viral? Virile maybe?
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Post by bidiein on Feb 11, 2021 19:22:52 GMT
 But you know what I meant...
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Post by geometryman on Feb 11, 2021 23:49:55 GMT
Hmmm - maybe some, but there was at least one howler. It merged Henry's two sisters (Mary and Margaret) into one, called Margaret in the series and played by Gabrielle Anwar. This merged sister was married off to the aged King of Portugal (which I don't think happened to either sister in real life), who promptly died. Then "Margaret" went to France, which is actually what Mary did, but unlike the real Margaret at no stage had any connection with Scotland - thus rendering impossible the existence of Mary Queen of Scots or any Stuart kings of England!
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Post by bidiein on Feb 12, 2021 8:16:36 GMT
That was a bit blurred, true (it is years since I watched this series) but the political intrigues and the break from the Catholic church were portrayed well.
IMO.
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Anymore to come?
