# The Tudors 4/1/07

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 2, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-4-1-07/398389 "2007-04-02T05:05:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-4-1-07/398389/1 "2007-04-02T05:05:22Z")

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So… did anyone else watch?

I liked Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, although I must protest that he is not a ginger head and as a ginger head I feel that allowing anything but a genuiine red head is not cool.

A good start, a little lacking in action compared to _Rome_ but promising IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-4-1-07/398389/2 "2007-04-02T05:10:39Z")

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Shall we combine our threads? I started this one as well.

> **[The Tudors, on Showtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=414887)**
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> Did anyone else watch “The Tudors” on Showtime? I really want to like this show, and will keep watching. But I was a little disappointed. I’d hoped it would grip me the way Rome on HBO did. But what I saw was a lot of gorgeous costumes, with some...