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Returning: The Tudors

Jonathan Rhys Meyers return as King Henry VIII for the fourth and final series of The Tudors will air in June.

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The fourth and final series of The Tudors will air on Showcase from June.

The 10 part series will see Jonathan Rhys Meyers return as King Henry VIII, facing a bloody religious reformation and challenges from within his own kingdom. Holding the fate of both England and the world in his hands, the stormy monarch fights to ensure his legacy as he descends into madness.

The cast includes Tamzin Merchant, Joss Stone and Joely Richardson.

This season only started in the US in mid-April.

In Season 4, 30 years into his reign and well into middle age, Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) takes a fifth wife: the stunning teen queen Katherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant). The Queen’s ‘low’ background combined with her youth and beauty, arouses a lusty familiarity in certain members of Henry’s court, most notably his handsome young servant Thomas Culpepper (Torrance Coombs), who makes no secret of his desire for the new Queen during an extended hunting trip visit by the royal entourage.

Joan Bulmer (Catherine Steadman), the new Queen’s best friend from her youth, is hired as a lady in waiting; aside from her friendship she knows too much scandalous detail about Katherine’s sexual past to be outside the court.

It premieres Thursday June 10 at 8.30pm.

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  4. While quality programs like this are still being shown, I am happy to pay for a Foxtel subscription!
    However I note that many of the excellent programs formerly only seen on Pay TV are now being shown on the ABC.
    e.g. the brilliant “The Street” is soon for ABC2 – rather grim, but the stories and the acting are just breathtaking.
    The Tudors would suit an ABC audience too.

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