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Tudors

  • 01-10-2007 2:46pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    Is anyone else watching this series, I think it's on TV3.

    Definitely one of the best things to come out of Irish television in quite a while.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Isn't it a UK production?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It's shown on TV3 on Tuesday nights but it's about to start soon on BBC2.

    It's mainly produced by US cable channel Showtime, but it's co-financed by an Irish and Canadian company. It's filmed in Ardmore studios and you will see a lot of Irish actors in lead and supporting roles.
    I recommend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors

    It's been renewed in the US for a second season and Peter O'Toole is supposed to be joining the cast.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    odyssey06 wrote:
    It's been renewed in the US for a second season and Peter O'Toole is supposed to be joining the cast.
    Second series is soon to finish filming out in Ardmore Studios (which is in Bray).

    Look out for yours truly playing a 'French Groom' in a couple of episodes of season 2 ;)

    Didn't see Peter O'Toole on set any of the days I was there.. but he's in it, yeah.

    (Oh, and I've only ever seen about half an episode of this myself... didn't think too much of it tbh)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭How Strange


    IMO, this is a classic example of dumbed down tv. I think it could be great, the acting is good, the sets are good and the costumes are brilliant. But the production company sold themselves out to the mass American audience. So what we've ended up with is an 1980's style soap dressed up as period drama.

    The whole story of Henry VIII and his wives, the rise of protestantism across Europe, the relationships between England, Spain and France etc are fascinating but FFS all we see are t*ts and ar*e for an hour not to mention displays feminine wiles and conniving that Joan Collins a la Dynasty would be proud of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    IMO, this is a classic example of dumbed down tv. I think it could be great, the acting is good, the sets are good and the costumes are brilliant. But the production company sold themselves out to the mass American audience. So what we've ended up with is an 1980's style soap dressed up as period drama.

    The whole story of Henry VIII and his wives, the rise of protestantism across Europe, the relationships between England, Spain and France etc are fascinating but FFS all we see are t*ts and ar*e for an hour not to mention displays feminine wiles and conniving that Joan Collins a la Dynasty would be proud of.
    Couldn't agree more! When they start messing with the facts as in the portrayal of Henry's sister then I turn off. I watched some of the first episode and left it at that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    So, it's not that accurate from a historical point of view? I found it interesting because it dealt with his earlier life and showed what shared him into the king he is remembered as. I always found history boring in school because it was dates and fact's, you never got to learn about the person and what their motivations were to do what they did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    read this article and spotted this:
    We have a pretty good idea of what he looked like then. He evidently took after his mother's side, a strappingly handsome, sunny son of York. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is slim, dark and intended by nature to be menacing but he's Welsh, which is handy. Menacing may come in even handier.

    so he's not Irish?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭Livvie


    I don't know why, but I really don't like Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Although I have to say, he was a wonderful Elvis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭irishcsifan


    Kemos wrote: »
    read this article and spotted this:


    so he's not Irish?

    he is irish. he was born in cork


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Outer Bongolia


    Well I know that but The Guardian doesn't.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 queencakes


    The Tudors lost all credibility with me when I spotted that dude "Bill" from Fair City as some French Ambassoder in this week's episode on TV3 - with one of the worst attempts at a french accent i've ever heard. It was embarassing. I can't be the only one who noticed this. Surely to jaysus they could of found someone better than that!

    I was impressed with the first episode but have been disappointed with the quality of the show since then. The pace of the episodes is all over the place and we are thrown in the token sex scene that has no real relevance to the development of the episode.

    The only positive in the Tudors is Maria Doyle Kennedy as the Queen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,334 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Yeah

    I agree with How Strange.

    I did some extra'ing on it last year. In a tavern scene. Script includes the words 'in, out, in, out' and refers to a Spanish sailor from previous scenes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    queencakes wrote: »
    The Tudors lost all credibility with me when I spotted that dude "Bill" from Fair City as some French Ambassoder in this week's episode on TV3 - with one of the worst attempts at a french accent i've ever heard. It was embarassing. I can't be the only one who noticed this. Surely to jaysus they could of found someone better than that!

    In fairness he was pretty dire, but the other secondary Irish actors have done well, whether playing European or English roles.

    I thought it started out strongly, if you can forgive the abuse of historical facts, but has been running out of steam since about episode 4.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    Who was"Bill" in Fair City?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Whoever wrote that for The Guardian probably presumed he's Welsh because of the "Rhys" bit. Don't know where that came from. And his name is Jonathan O'Keeffe. When I was in school, a girl I hung around with was going out with him.


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    Lizzykins wrote: »
    Who was"Bill" in Fair City?


    Florie Knox, and then Anna Friel buried him under the patio in Brookside.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Davedubh


    gillo wrote: »
    Is anyone else watching this series, I think it's on TV3.

    Definitely one of the best things to come out of Irish television in quite a while.

    Are you joking?Its ****e.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    Ah now I know who it is. His name in Fair City is Bob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    The actor who plays Bob in Fair City and who played Trevor "Patio" Jordache in Brookside is called Bryan Murray. Flurry Knox was the name of his character in The Irish R.M. (80s series).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Davedubh wrote: »
    Are you joking?Its ****e.

    No, not joking at all, I like it I watch it. Ok so we've established that it's not completely historically accurate but it's not a documentary it's a story based on the life of Henry.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I think it's brilliant. Historically it's broadly accurate, with some minor, soaped up details, but it's hardly rewriting history.

    Nothing particularly of interest happens in any episode, but it's just....so watchable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 Hey.


    :D Hi there, can anyone tell me what the really cool rock song was in the TV3 ad for the Tudors where Henry and Ann where kissing. It has been wrecking me head for months now. It sounds like a really slow electric guitar (probly a better way of explaining that but hey)


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