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Get ‘em while they’re hot, folks, ’cause The Tudors only has one more season of steamy love scenes and fiery arguments ahead.
Showtime has decided to end the series after Season 4, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The final season will air next spring and run 10 episodes long. It’ll take us through King Henry’s last two marriages, to the flirtatious Katherine Howard and the diplomatic Katherine Parr.
It feels like the end is coming fast, but the show’s termination has nothing to do with ratings. Tudors creator Michael Hirst said four seasons make sense, since Henry’s later wives weren’t as well known as Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
And with luck we’ll get another Showtime drama from Hirst, who’s developing a contemporary version of King Arthur’s Camelot story for the network.
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215 days ago
My entire family is devastated the decision was made to end The Tudors. We all get together for the evening to watch, each one of us enthralled from the husbands to the teen niece. There is SO much more history to be explored through these writers and directors in the style in which Tudors has been presented to us. I am banning Showtime when The Tudors end, I feel we have been cheated!!
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79 days ago
If you want real history, watch the David Starkey documentary on Henry VIII. The first is Henry VIII Mind Of A Tyrant and the second is The Six Wives of Henry VIII. This show is great entertainment but hardly accurate. Most of the things in here and some of the characters have been left out. For example, they combined Mary and Margaret Tudor into one character. Also Mary Tudor was married to the King of France not the King of Portugal. When the King of France died, King Francis I helped her marry Charles Brandon. Great show but a disaster for accuracy.
214 days ago
Just started watching the Tudors on OnDemand, watched all three seasons in 3 days. I am hooked and can not wait for season four, it has to be one of the best shows ever done for tv, especially seasons 1 and 2…WOW. If it does not continue I will be very disappointed, one of the true quality shows around.
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213 days ago
My fiancee and I discovered The Tudors by happenstance, and started watching every episode of Seasons 1 through 3 on our ATT U-Verse Video on Demand (Free!). We finished the series and find ourselves having withdrawals!! lol.
It takes a powerful, interesting, well-written movie to keep my interest; because I generally would walk away and do small tasks around the house if I became bored. NOT SO with The Tudors — all I can say is “WOW!!” Marvelously written and casted.
PLEASE CONTINUE THE TUDORS! How interesting it would be to see the continuation of royal history to the present!
Thanks so much for entertaining us so!
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211 days ago
I was also looking forward to the rest of the story, too…the part about Edward, Jane, Mary, Elizabeth and the rest of the family. At the same time, I am sorry to see Season 3 degenerate into a barrage of sex and sadism…the slasher movies for people who hate slasher movies. I can just imagine what Seaason 4 will be!
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207 days ago
[...] Wife No. 5 are all on tap for Season 4 of The Tudors, which drops in mid-April. Those of you lamenting that Season 4 will be the last for King Henry and his harem, rest assured the final season will have all the drama, bad boys and pretty girls you’ve come [...]
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78 days ago
It is silly of them to end it. The show was called ‘The Tudors’ not ‘Henry VIII’. Lady Mary would have made an interesting series with her fervid burning of heretics and protestants. Then of course you have Elizabeth I who was also a fascinating monarch. There could have been at least another two series there. Shame.
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74 days ago
I dont understand why he didnt continue with the story re his son, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. They would of been great stories!!! I am so sad to see it go so soon!!!!
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65 days ago
BUMMED!!!!!!
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18 days ago
There’ll be a series about King Arthur?!!! I can barely contain my embarrassing squeals! Hurray!
Now that I think about it; there seems to me to be a new ‘genre’ of TV series springing up with Rome, Tudors and, now, if God be willing, something of Arthurian ledgends. Cause they all seem to be quite keen to keep as close to the historical version as possible, without making it like what we learn in school (boring).
But I was kinda hoping that ‘Tudors’ was gonna cover Elizabeth’s reign also, as she made up (pretty much) half of the Tudor dynasty(!!!). They could have named the show differently if they never meant to tell her story, only her father’s.
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2 days ago
if its history you are all after, there is a channel called the history channel, you can learn just as much from it even more.
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