The Tudors’ revels now are ended

As most of you know, tonight is the series finale of Showtime’s The Tudors.

Spoiler alert!

(Henry VIII dies.)

It’s been an interesting four years for Tudor-philes with this series. I know my website traffic, email, blog questions, etc. have increased from people who have been watching the series and want to dig in to the real history behind what they were seeing – and that’s always a plus in my book. (The people wanting to learn history that is, not necessarily the increase in my email volume!) All in all, I’ve enjoyed it, even if I was occasionally frustrated with some of the “creativity” they used with the history (the sisters of Henry VIII being my biggest pet peeve).

Now I’m looking forward to the Starz mini-series of The Pillars of the Earth, Showtime’s The Borgias, and going in to some fantasy territory – A Game of Thrones on HBO. Starz also has a series called Camelot in development that sounds like fun. So there is definitely a lot of stuff that will fill the gap the end of The Tudors will leave in my entertainment schedule!