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Program Summary for The Tudors
The Tudors focuses on the life and romances of the young King Henry VIII. The first series takes a look at the often overlooked, early political relationships as well as Henry's trysts with such notable women as Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. The second series looks at King Henry's struggle with the Pope over his divorce, and his marriage to Anne Boleyn as well as the creation of the Church of England. The third series focuses on the people's response to the creation of a new national Church and on the king's third and fourth marriage. The series is shot on location in Ireland. Michael Hirst, writer of the Oscar-winning movie Elizabeth, is the series creator, writer and executive producer.
 
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Episode Title:
Episode 1
Original Air Date:
April 1st 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x01 -- Season: 1, Episode: 1
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Henry prepares for war with France but receives cautious counsel from the powerful Cardinal Wolsey, who urges a peace treaty; the king learns that his queen's lady-in-waiting Elizabeth Blount is pregnant with his child.
Episode Title:
Episode 2
Original Air Date:
April 8th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x02 -- Season: 1, Episode: 2
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Henry and the court go to the summit to sign the treaty with France. Tensions are understandably high, and tempers of both kings flare up more than once. Meanwhile, Henry takes on a new mistress named Mary Boleyn. He soon tires of her and her father summons her sister Anne to court and tells her to find a way to keep the king's interest.
Episode Title:
Episode 3
Original Air Date:
April 15th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x03 -- Season: 1, Episode: 3
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
The King asks Charles to escort his sister, Margaret, to her betrothed and promotes him to Duke of Suffolk. The envoys from the Holy Roman-Emperor meet with Cardinal Wolsey and determine how to cement the treaty between the two nations. Anne catches the King's notice in a play. The Emperor is invited to the King's court. It is learned that the King of France knows of the treaty talks- and the Cardinal is quick to find a scapegoat. We learn more of why Anne's father and uncle want her to seduce the King.
Episode Title:
Episode 4
Original Air Date:
April 22nd 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x04 -- Season: 1, Episode: 4
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
As a reward for his denunciation of Martin Luther, the Pope christens Henry “Defender of the Faith,” but a brush with death causes the king to seek a solution to his lack of an heir. Princess Margaret marries the decrepit King of Portugal reluctantly, but the union is short-lived; Henry's desire for Anne Boleyn intensifies.
Episode Title:
Episode 5
Original Air Date:
April 29th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x05 -- Season: 1, Episode: 5
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Henry is shocked when he learns that his ally, Emperor Charles V of Spain, has released France's King Francis I from prison. He's equally surprised when Anne Boleyn turns him down after offering to make her his sole mistress.
Episode Title:
Episode 6
Original Air Date:
May 6th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x06 -- Season: 1, Episode: 6
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
As King Henry gains in confidence, his displeasure with the way the Catholic church handles his request for an annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon grows. As a result, Cardinal Wolsey's position is weakening, leaving him vulnerable to his enemies.
Episode Title:
Episode 7
Original Air Date:
May 13th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x07 -- Season: 1, Episode: 7
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
England's population is suffering, both from a lack of food and from a lethal plague called 'The Sweats'.
As a result, King Henry feels depressed and not his usual, confident self. He starts having doubts about the future and his ability to rule the country. Fortunately for him, a change is coming up.
Episode Title:
Episode 8
Original Air Date:
May 20th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x08 -- Season: 1, Episode: 8
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
In this episode the king receives a special guest. A papal envoy has come to discuss the annulment of the King's marriage to Katherine of Aragon, as requested by the King. The outcome of these discussions will determine Cardinal Wolsey's future career as well as the King's romance with Anne Boleyn. These discussions will also influence the nature of the relationship between England and Rome.
Episode Title:
Episode 9
Original Air Date:
May 27th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x09 -- Season: 1, Episode: 9
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
The unthinkable comes to pass, Cardinal Wolsey is stripped of his powers and authority. No longer is he the Lord Chancellor.
His successor is a surprising choice.
Episode Title:
Episode 9
Original Air Date:
June 3rd 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x09 -- Season: 1, Episode: 9
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
The unthinkable comes to pass, Cardinal Wolsey is stripped of his powers and authority. No longer is he the Lord Chancellor.
His successor is a surprising choice.
Episode Title:
Episode 10
Original Air Date:
June 10th 2007 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
01x10 -- Season: 1, Episode: 10
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Cardinal Wolsey attempts to save his career by finding a new, yet surprising ally: Queen Katherine, who has also lost the King's favour.
However, their plotting is discovered by the King's advisors.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-1
Original Air Date:
March 30th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x01 -- Season: 2, Episode: 1
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
The King makes himself head of the Church of England while the Catholic Church fights a losing battle to control Henry VIII's desire for an annulment. Anne Boleyn demands that Henry break off contact with Katherine, so the noble Queen is banished from court. On top of that The Reformation is underway.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-2
Original Air Date:
April 6th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x02 -- Season: 2, Episode: 2
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Christmas at the Tudor court is a time for ringing in the new. Mistress Anne Boleyn has replaced the banished Queen Katherine. The King's chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, makes a fact-finding visit to Lutheran Germany while Henry withdraws both the authority and taxes of the Catholic Church at home. And a royal visit to France finally convinces Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry, even as his best friend Charles Brandon suggests that she is no virgin.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-3
Original Air Date:
April 13th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x03 -- Season: 2, Episode: 3
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Henry can no longer be patient. With the Pope's blessing, he appoints Thomas Cranmer the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry and Anne marry in secret, without even waiting for the annulment of Henry's first marriage. Anne gives birth to her and Henry's first child.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-4
Original Air Date:
April 20th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x04 -- Season: 2, Episode: 4
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Henry and Anne's first child, a daughter named Elizabeth is baptised.
Henry submits a bill to Parliament which will become his first 'Act of Succession'. According to this act, only the children from his marriage to Anne can inherit the throne. The act includes the requirement that every subject, on demand, takes an oath acknowledging the King's marriage to Anne and his supremacy in all thing secular and spiritual.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-5
Original Air Date:
April 27th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x05 -- Season: 2, Episode: 5
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Attempts to legitimise the King's marriage and increase his power hit unmovable obstacles as Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher insist that only God can be head of the church. Imprisoned in the Tower of London they face likely execution unless they take the Oath of Allegiance. Meanwhile Henry's wandering eye continues to roam.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-6
Original Air Date:
May 4th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x06 -- Season: 2, Episode: 6
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Despite the Pope excommunicating Henry, the Reformation continues. Sir Thomas Cromwell is tasked to make the king and the Reformation more popular and he uses plays to achieve this goal. Henry has nightmares featuring Thomas More and Anne Boleyn becomes increasingly insecure as Henry continues to have affairs.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-7
Original Air Date:
May 11th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x07 -- Season: 2, Episode: 7
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
The English Reformation is in full swing.
Queen Anne suffers from nightmares and feels threatened by Katherine and her daughter.
Henry pays an unplanned visit to an old friend, Sir John Seymour, father of Jane Seymour.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-8
Original Air Date:
May 18th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x08 -- Season: 2, Episode: 8
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
At Henry's command Jane Seymour is made a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, to the discomfort and suspicion of the Queen. When Henry is seriously injured in a jousting match all thoughts turn to who might succeed him. There will be far-reaching consequences if Anne's pregnancy does not deliver a healthy son.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-9
Original Air Date:
May 25th 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x09 -- Season: 2, Episode: 9
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Anne has lost a son and with it her last chance at a lasting marriage with Henry. The King's affections are shifting anyway: the Seymour family are awarded rooms at court and seem likely to replace the Boleyns as royal favourites. Several in the court begin to move against Anne who is accused of adultery. Arrests are made of suspected lovers and of Anne herself. All, including the Queen, are sentenced to death.
Episode Title:
Episode 2-10
Original Air Date:
June 1st 2008 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
02x10 -- Season: 2, Episode: 10
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
Queen Anne is imprisoned in the Tower, awaiting her execution. The king granted her wish for a special executioner, but he is delayed and the execution has to be postponed.
King Henry proposes to Jane Seymour now that his marriage to Anne has been declared null and void. He hopes she will gave him a legitimate, male heir.
Episode Title:
Episode 3-1
Original Air Date:
April 5th 2009 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
03x01 -- Season: 3, Episode: 1
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
King Henry marries for the third time. A blonde, shy noblewoman by the name of Jane Seymour.

The king's decision to abandon the Catholic Church causes an uproar.
Episode Title:
Episode 3-2
Original Air Date:
April 12th 2009 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
03x02 -- Season: 3, Episode: 2
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
The uproar caused by the King's decision to break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be knows as "The Pilgrimage of Grace". Because the king is hampered by an old jousting injury, he sends Charles Brandon to deal with the uprising.
However, the injury does not interfere with his love life because the newly-wed king finds a new mistress, the Lady Ursula Misseldon.
Episode Title:
Episode 3-5
Original Air Date:
May 3rd 2009 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
03x05 -- Season: 3, Episode: 5
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
After the death of his wife, Henry mourns in solitude. His enemies use this opportunity to murder members of the royal entourage.
Cromwell is upset that the Church of England still closely resembles the Catholic Church.
Episode Title:
Episode 3-6
Original Air Date:
May 10th 2009 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
03x06 -- Season: 3, Episode: 6
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
In another bid to rid the kingdom of Catholicism, Cromwell arranges for the king to marry a protestant.
The king's leg wound takes a turn for the worse and actually threatens the king's life.
Episode Title:
Episode 3-7
Original Air Date:
May 17th 2009 (Sunday)
Original Air Time:
NA (ET)
Episode ID:
03x07 -- Season: 3, Episode: 7
Program Network:
Showtime - 60 minutes
Episode Summary:
England is threatened by an alliance between France and Spain, backed by Rome, so Henry agrees to marry Anne of Cleves, a German protestant, without even meeting her beforehand.
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