DUBLIN, Ireland – For a guy playing Henry VIII, Jonathan Rhys Meyers is looking very skinny in his jeans, relaxing in a trailer on the Irish set of Showtime’s steamy period drama “The Tudors.” The ...
Jude Russo, managing editor: Good aphorisms make bad history. At the same time, it is not entirely wrong to say that, in the Anglosphere, everything starts with the Tudors. Two of the three great ...
A new installation intended to uncover the lives of the generations of free and enslaved people who lived and worked at the Tudor Place, a historic Georgetown property that now serves as a museum, ...
They’re trying not to lose their heads over at Showtime in the wake of big numbers for the premiere of “The Tudors.” Feevee cabler’s high-profile, big- budget costume drama notched 870,000 viewers ...
After four seasons and 38 episodes, Showtime’s “The Tudors” will have its series finale on June 20. And I, for one, will be sad to see it go. I say that even though I was a history major in college ...
NEW YORK -- “The Tudors,” the racy, richly appointed series that returns to Showtime on Sunday for its second season, has never purported to be obsessed with authenticity. But creator and executive ...
The Tudors were some of the most compelling, powerful, and disturbing monarchs in history—and they began with an upstart nobody named Henry VII. The father of the Tudor dynasty turned England into a ...
From the window of a second-floor bedroom at Tudor Place in Georgetown, you can almost see clear across the Potomac to Arlington. Two hundred years ago, the same view would have been unobstructed by ...