By Order Of The King: A Third 'Tudors' Season
Production Set To Begin In Dublin During Mid-June
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 4/22/2008 10:12:00 AM
King Henry VIII will return for a third season on Showtime.
The premium network, as expected, is bringing back The Tudors for a third campaign in 2009. Production is slated to begin on June 16 in Dublin, with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who portrays the randy royal, set to return. The show's first season and Rhys Meyers received Golden Globe nominations.
The announcement comes as the sixth installment of the 10-episode second season is scheduled to premiere on the linear network Sunday night. Showtime Entertainment president Robert Greenblatt told Multichannel News and then an assembled crowd at a screening in New York last month that writing had already begun on a third campaign.
“The Tudors is now a fixture for us at Showtime and we’re on our way to completing the entire saga of all six wives of Henry VIII,” said Greenblatt in statement. “We are enormously proud of this show, the extraordinary cast, and the production team that recreates the grandeur of the Renaissance year in and year out. There is nothing like this anywhere on American television.”
During the current season, Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer), while continuing to declare his marriage to Queen Katherine of Aragon (Maria Doyle Kennedy). In turn, Pope Paul III (Peter O’Toole) excommunicates the king. However, Anne’s failure to bear a male heir ultimately carries a heady price -- and sends Henry toward Jane Seymour (Anita Briem), who later becomes the third of six wives.
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I love the show, it was slow at the very beginning, but Meyers brought it up with his amazing acting.
I could not believe how I cryied during the finale, it was jsut great acting and writing!!! What Anne must have gone thru was translated so well by Dormer!
I will patiently await the return but please hurry!
Or Show time will be off to the tower!
Shirley Spady - 6/9/2008 1:36:00 PM EDT -
Why 2009? that is a long time to wait for this spectacular show. I am eager to see what happens next!!
Katie - 6/6/2008 1:53:00 PM EDT
