07Oct

Tudoroaks

posted by Juliet Bowbrick

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How Simon Schama must curse the producers of The Tudors, so beautiful, so colourful, so…..Hollyoaks. Which means that it’s a must for anyone who favours style over substance. (Me). And despite knowing what happens in the end, I still hoped that Anne Boleyn, played by the superbly curvy mouthed and impossibly regal Natalie Dormer, would get a last minute reprieve, kick Henry into touch and rule supreme. In fact, coward that I am, I couldn’t watch her beheading, instead hid behind a cushion and muttered to myself about how much I hate the choice of a Playboy bunny to play wife number 3, Jane Seymour. Anyway series two sees Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) still managing to keep those pounds off and striding about court in a very handsome strop. Off with his head.

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  1. Posted by Watchification: Tudoroaks on Tuesday 7th October

    [...] just written this up at Watchification, but have to repeat myself as I truly loved the performance by Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn. The [...]

  2. Posted by simon james on Wednesday 8th October

    Another example of the BBC’s drive to ‘sex up’ all programming. They stop short of ‘sexing up’ the news but it can only be a matter of time before we start seeing trails for BBC News 24 where the sexual tension is raised to fever pitch.

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