Amazon.com has put a release date on DVD set for the first season of “The Tudors” series from Showtime. It will be in January 8, 2008 for the US and December 10, 2007 for the UK.
I’m having trouble getting the affiliate link to work for the UK pre-order, but you can just go to this page for information.
Via Bitsofnews.com
And at a pretty good price too! I only have these on video tape, so I might have to grab this set for myself at some point:
The Creative Emmys were announced and “The Tudors” picked up two: “Costumes for a Series” and “Original Main Title Theme Music”. Congrats!
Sonja Marie of the Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum found this on Deviant Art. Too cute!!
The Wives by ~Comtessedelalune on deviantART
First up, episode #15 of TudorCast is now posted.
And, I’d like to announce that I’ve put together a silly little survey as a way to get entries for the first Tudorhistory.org/TudorTalk/TudorCast give-away. The folks at Showtime were nice enough to send me some goodies from “The Tudors” television series to give away to other Tudor fans. You can take the survey and enter the contest over at tudorhistory.org/contest. Also, if you want to take the survey but not enter the contest, you can do that as well, just don’t enter an email address in the last box.
I’ll post the results of the survey here and contact the winners in the second half of October!
Sorry I’m a day late at getting around to this…
“The Tudors” series received four Emmy nominations (the US Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) in the following categories:
Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series
Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
Outstanding Costumes For A Series
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
The official site for Elizabeth The Golden Age is now live. The trailer on the site is a new one too.
Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Images courtesy Jonathan Hession/Showtime
So, how many of my fellow Tudor/Harry Potter fans out there got a chuckle out of the question above on the third W.O.M.B.A.T. exam at J.K. Rowling’s website?
Variety and several other sites are reporting that film legend Peter O’Toole will be joining the cast of “The Tudors” as Pope Paul III in the second season. As the Variety article notes, O’Toole has played a King Henry with Church troubles himself… in his case Henry II in “Becket” and “The Lion in Winter” (one of my favorite movies!).
Give Showtime your feedback on The Tudors series
After some discussion on the TudorTalk list, it appears that some people got different surveys, possibly depending on how they answered the initial questions.
With the flood of news alerts that came through over the past two days, you’d think this was big breaking news. I guess this is really a follow-up to news from back in September about Scarlett Johansson playing Mary Queen of Scots since her attachment to the project isn’t anything new. What apparently is new is that a production company (Relativity Media) has signed on to fund the movie.
There were a ton of articles about this, so I am just randomly choosing the most recent two that came through my news alerts:
From The Herald and from The Independent
Historically accurate or not, it certainly looks like good drama. I’m really looking forward to a modern-day special effects take on the Armada too!
Update: The trailer was taken down (can’t say I’m really surprised).
Update 2: Courtesy of Monique, here’s another link to the trailer. This time you can download a nice quality Quicktime version. Looks great on my computer!
This one isn’t due out until November, but it is available for pre-order. I didn’t see a listing at Amazon.uk, but I’ll add it if/when it shows up. Looking at the other works by Anne Gracie, I’m guessing this is a historical romance based on the series.
Thanks to Kathy for emailing me about it!
I posted this over on the Q&A blog, but I thought it would be worth repeating here since I’m still getting questions about it:
As I’m sure some of you have figured out by now, the portrayal of Margaret Tudor’s story in the Showtime series is NOT the same as the life of the real Margaret Tudor. In the series, the story is basically that of Mary Tudor (Henry VIII’s sister), but my guess is that they decided to use Margaret’s name to avoid any confusion with the other Mary Tudor (Henry VIII’s daughter).
Since the series started out in 1520 when Francis I was already King of France, they couldn’t fit the real marriage saga of Mary Tudor into the series timeline as it actually happened in history. In reality Mary married Louix XII of France in 1514 and he died a few months later in 1515 and was succeeded by Francis I. Since this all took place before the time that the series started (1520), they moved it to a later year and used the King of Portugal instead of the King of France. Mary (or Margaret, in the series) does later marry Charles Brandon and they are the grandparents of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey.
The real Margaret Tudor was married to James IV of Scotland (and had two marriages after that) and was the mother of James V of Scotland, who in turn was the father of Mary Queen of Scots. Margaret’s great-grandson was James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England after the death of Elizabeth I. So, as you can see, Margaret’s real story is very different from that of the character with that name in the Showtime series.
Now, to complicate things even further, the character biographies on the Showtime series website give the history of the REAL characters, which will be quite confusing to anyone who reads them and is watching the series (and seeing a different story!).
So you folks in the UK will get to see it in the fall…
From DigitalSpy.co.uk
The Tudors, a ten-part drama produced by Peace Arts and TM Productions in association with the CBC and Showtime, has been acquired by BBC Two for its Autumn schedule.
“The Golden Age”, sequel to “Elizabeth”, starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth is set for an October release in the US and November in the UK and some other European counties. A few folks will have to wait for December.
Apparently it’s official now!
From Variety:
Showtime is firming up plans for 2008, giving an early renewal to just-launched drama “The Tudors” and greenlighting production on a new Tracey Ullman skein.
…Second season will document the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the birth of daughter Elizabeth, the Reformation and (spoiler alert!) the beheading of Boleyn. Jonathan Rhys Meyers will return as star of the skein.
