The Tudors
"It's Good to Be King."
Overview
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.
Crew
Michael Hirst
Seasons
Season 1
10 Episodes
2007
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.
Season 2
10 Episodes
2008
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.
Season 3
8 Episodes
2009
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.
Season 4
10 Episodes
2010
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.
Trailer
Cast
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Henry VIII of England
Henry Cavill
Charles Brandon
Sarah Bolger
Mary Tudor
Max Brown
Edward Seymour
David O'Hara
Henry Howard
Lothaire Bluteau
Ambassador Charles de Marillac
Tamzin Merchant
Catherine Howard
Torrance Coombs
Thomas Culpepper
Anthony Brophy
Ambassador Eustace Chapuys
Laoise Murray
Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Eoin Murtagh
Prince Edward Tudor
Jake Hathaway
Prince Edward Tudor