http://culturalheritagematters.com/2009/04/16/the-tudors-as-history/ Enrich your life by saving the past Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://culturalheritagematters.com/2009/04/16/the-tudors-as-history/#comment-139 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:37:54 +0000 http://garylandeck.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-139 I agree – obviously the producers threw accuracy out the window on that point. But they aren’t dummies. Having a nice-to-look-at Henry will drive the show’s ratings much higher than if they had chosen, say, Gary Shandling (which reminds me of a funny X-Files episode in which Shandling played Fox Mulder in a movie someone made).

]]> http://culturalheritagematters.com/2009/04/16/the-tudors-as-history/#comment-138 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:26:13 +0000 http://garylandeck.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-138 Gary and I watch this show off and on. I have read a lot of historical fiction about this time period and some historical works on Elizabeth and the show seems fairly accurate. Except that Henry VIII looked nothing like Jonathan Rhys-Davies by the time he got to Catherine Howard. And DEFINITELY not by Anne of Cleves.

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