Returning: The Tudors

The lavish, rather rollicking US-produced drama, The Tudors returns to the Showcase channel, but not for a little while longer.

The series returns 8:30pm Wednesday July 1st on Showcase.

This series begins in the wake of the execution of Anne Boleyn, as King Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, his third wife and the woman destined to bear him a son.

Though the Queen’s pregnancy is cause to rejoice, Henry is faced with mounting threats to his authority from a commoners’ revolt inside England and an angry Pope determined to stem Protestantism’s rising tide.

In the war on the home front, loyalty becomes a scarce commodity as friends become foes and tragedy strikes again and again.

No one is safe from Henry’s growing madness as the volatile and anguished monarch is cornered by a country that has come to hate him and all he stands for.