# "The Tudors" is on all day today on BBCA

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-is-on-all-day-today-on-bbca/567818>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 16, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-is-on-all-day-today-on-bbca/567818 "2011-01-16T14:38:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-is-on-all-day-today-on-bbca/567818/21 "2011-01-18T11:37:25Z")

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> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> First season was fun and sexy with a healthy young Henry. Seasons two and three weren’t nearly as much fun or sexy. Knowing what I know now, stopping at the first season ender would have been just fine.

I think Anne Boleyn’s execution is a better stopping point.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-is-on-all-day-today-on-bbca/567818/22 "2011-01-18T15:24:36Z")

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> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> I enjoyed the first season of The Tudors. Turns out when I had trouble with the casting too, after I looked Henry up, turns out he was very athletic and fit in his younger years, and didn’t become the hefty fella we all know until after a jousting accident and never healing, plus additional health problems as he got older.

Sure, but Johnathan Rhys-Meyers isn’t really athletic and fit. He’s kind of small and slight. Young Henry was tall and muscular. They also get little things wrong, like hair color (both Henry and Katherine of Aragon were red headed. The series makes them dark haired( (Here’s [show Katherine](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2814286080/ch0031859) vs [real Katherine](http://www.flickr.com/photos/pomphorhynchus/4080584699/).

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**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-is-on-all-day-today-on-bbca/567818/23 "2011-01-18T19:01:13Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> The key thing is, is BBCA showing titties? I’ll Tivo it if so. If not, forget it.

Nope, quick cuts whenever there’s a threat of nudity.

BTW, my husband recorded the entire marathon of the 1st series, and we’re totally confused about the BBC promos for the “premiere” of the series airing later this week. What’s up with that? I understand having the episodes hosted with Leonora Critchlow adding some commentary, but why call it a “premiere?” They’ve broadcast the whole effing series in a single day, and THEN they call it a premiere? What gives? 😕

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tudors-is-on-all-day-today-on-bbca/567818/24 "2011-01-19T04:23:59Z")

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We were all sorts of semi-excited to see Tudors on BBCA, but then I accidentally stumbled across it at Netflix. Seasons 1 & 2 are available for instant play, and Seasons 3 & 4 are currently available only on mailed DVDs.

I queued up the whole lot and then deleted the BBCA versions off the PVR.

Small price to pay for no commercials and presumably no “editing for content.”

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