UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

'Tudors' to return for 4th, final season

|
 
Irish actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers attends the "Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Gala Dinner" at Hampton Court Palace in London on June 7, 2008. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad)
Irish actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers attends the "Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Gala Dinner" at Hampton Court Palace in London on June 7, 2008. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad) 
License photo
Published: April 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM

LOS ANGELES, April 13 (UPI) -- Showtime announced Monday it has picked up a fourth season of its drama series "The Tudors," starring Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII.

The final season will consist of 10, one-hour episodes and will focus on the British monarch's tumultuous relationships with his last two wives, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, as well as his final descent into madness, the cable network said in a news release.

Season 4, which will return in spring 2010, will be written by series creator and executive producer Michael Hirst, with production to begin this June in Dublin, Ireland.

Hirst will have single-handedly written all 38 of the series' one-hour episodes by the time the story is complete.

"I'm thrilled to complete the saga of Henry VIII as re-conceived by Michael Hirst. He and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have breathed new life into the costume drama by making it both modern in sensibility but also faithful to history. I think we proved that even after 500 years this is a great story," Robert Greenblatt, president of entertainment for Showtime, said in a statement.

Season 3 of "The Tudors" began April 5.

Topics: Jonathan Rhys Meyers
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 16
Tornadoes Devastate Moore, Oklahoma
View Caption
A damaged movie theater is seen in aftermath of a series of tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma, May 21, 2013. On May 20 a series of tornadoes swept through severals towns south of Oklahoma City leaving a path of destruction and killing at least 24 people. UPI/J.P. Wilson
fark
How to: Hit on your bartender. The correct answer is D) Just don't even bother, because you'll either...
Imaginative plumber builds the world's fastest fully-functioning toilet that can doo doo 55mph -...
Facebook pics led to arrest of alleged members of Crazy White Boys gang who will now be called the...
In response to yesterday's story about suburban poverty, it turns out that suburbia has more poverty...
Riots in Stockholm spread to suburbs. Look, we *all* can't win the Eurovision contest
WaPo fact checker gives three "Pinocchios" to the doctored Benghazi emails claim. Proving once and...