{"id":1903,"date":"2007-04-16T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/04\/the_tudors\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T13:11:53","slug":"the_tudors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/the_tudors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tudors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I note that The Tudors<\/a> has finally found a UK home on BBC2. The Tudors is a 10 part Showtime Network series that’s just started in the US. It stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey and Jeremy Northam as Thomas More. In other words it’s a “British” costume drama that hasn’t been made by a British TV company. And unusually, it seems that a British co-producer wasn’t even sought (or at least signed up) prior to production. In any case, tax incentives being what they are, the series was shot in Ireland. Don’t believe any of those stories suggesting that there’s nowhere in this country suitable to shoot, which emerge when British-set period dramas are filmed abroad. It’s cheaper to shoot in Ireland or Romania or wherever.
\nIt did strike me as very strange, that even with the full series in the can, nobody in the UK had stepped forward to buy the series. Absolutely every US series gets a British buyer somewhere down the line – it’s normally just a question of how much. I’d imagine that The Tudors is a very expensive series, and that Showtime wouldn’t just want to sell it to Living for tuppence happeny.
\nAnyhow, BBC2 has bitten the bullet<\/a> and bought the series for broadcasting this Autumn. I suspect as well as cost, there was wariness after the expense of the last big US co-production with a US premium cable network. I’m talking, of course, about Rome – the second (and final) series of which has now aired on HBO. I’d imagine that it’s due for BBC2 sometime soon. It’s not that Rome’s a bad series, it’s just that you know it’d be handled a little differently if the Beeb had been able to take more control over it.
\nI’ve only seen the first episode of The Tudors – no website I can link to incidentally, since Showtime insists that it’s entire website is not meant for prying eyes from outside the US – and it’s ably done, but I’m not in a great rush to continue watching. I probably will out of curiosity, and the cast is strong. But it’s just a little lacking and the script wasn’t vibrant enough for me. We’ll see how it fares properly later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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