Somehow, it’s been nine years since the first series of the remarkable Wolf Hall. Based on Hilary Mantel’s books, the BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning series chronicled the life of Thomas Cromwell. Henry VIII’s political fixer was played compellingly by Mark Rylance, with the King himself brought to life by Damian Lewis. However, the first … >
The BBC has released some first-look pictures as Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light finishes filing — we take a look Filming has completed for the adaptation of the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s multi award-winning trilogy. To mark this, the BBC has released a host of first-look pictures — the picture above shows … >
The final chapter of the acclaimed Wolf Hall sees Mark Rylance return to his role of Thomas Cromwell. The BBC have announced the imminent start of production on a second series of its Tudor drama Wolf Hall. Based on the novels of the late Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light adapts the … >
Now we’ve recovered from that “emergency broadcast”, which introduced us to the threat of The Undeclared War (with a side-order of Prime Ministerial wish fulfilment), we’ve been able to find out a few more details about Channel 4’s upcoming thriller. First up, we have a quote from series creator Peter Kosminsky on what the show … >
The Undeclared War stars Adrian Lester and Simon Pegg. Last Friday night, Channel 4 kicked off the marketing for their upcoming cyber thriller in innovative fashion. At 8.59 PM, in the form of a government “emergency broadcast”, Prime Minister Rt Hon Andrew Makinde (Adrian Lester) addressed the nation to tell us of the threat. He … >
Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) desperately tries to escape his murky past as The Gunman shoots onto digital platforms from Monday 13 July and onto Blu-ray™ and DVD on Monday 20 July, courtesy of StudioCanal. To celebrate the release, we’ve got The Gunman on Blu-ray and a The Gunman poster signed by Sean Penn, Pierre Morel, … >
It’s all over, bar the shouting. And the screaming. And the executions. There will undoubtedly be a follow-up series, just as soon as Hilary Mantel gets around to finishing off her trilogy. But for now, we’ll just have to settle for six episodes of what has been the most compelling and hypnotic drama we’ve seen … >
Damian Lewis stars as Henry VIII alongside Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn in BBC Two’s epic new drama series Wolf Hall. > Order Wolf Hall on DVD on Amazon. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If Henry VIII dies without a male heir, the country could … >
History hasn’t always been kind to Cromwell. Opinion shifts quite violently to considering him Henry VIII’s right hand man to a shifty planner of self-interest. As Wolf Hall shows, such changes of opinion happened within Cromwell’s time, too. When it was Henry who suddenly decided that he didn’t like you anymore, Tudor life was lived … >
It wasn’t meant to be like this. When you’re the king of England in 1533, you should be confident in your belief that your throne is appointed by a God who will provide you with a brood of strapping sons to strengthen the family line. When you’re instead presented with a possibly illegitimate daughter and … >