They’re trying not to lose their heads over at Showtime in the wake of big numbers for the premiere of “The Tudors.” Feevee cabler’s high-profile, big- budget costume drama notched 870,000 viewers ...

After four seasons and 38 episodes, Showtime’s “The Tudors” will have its series finale on June 20. And I, for one, will be sad to see it go. I say that even though I was a history major in college ...

Jude Russo, managing editor: Good aphorisms make bad history. At the same time, it is not entirely wrong to say that, in the Anglosphere, everything starts with the Tudors. Two of the three great ...

NEW YORK -- “The Tudors,” the racy, richly appointed series that returns to Showtime on Sunday for its second season, has never purported to be obsessed with authenticity. But creator and executive ...

The Tudors are the most famous royal family in English history, ruling from 1485 to 1603. The dynasty began with the reign of King Henry VII, and ended with his granddaughter, Elizabeth I. Marked by ...

The 1530s was a crucial decade in the history of the territories of the English crown. Henry VIII and his advisor Thomas Cromwell broke with the Papacy, thus creating the possibility that the realm ...