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Wolf Hall

15
TV series
2015–2024
2 seasons
BBC One
Drama

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7.5 TMDB worldwide · 154 ratings

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

About the show

Wolf Hall is a British television series adaptation of the book trilogy of the same name by Hilary Mantel, a fictionalised biography documenting the life of Thomas Cromwell.

The six-part first series, based on the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, was initially broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015. It documented the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII, through the death of Sir Thomas More, to Cromwell's success in freeing the king of his marriage to Anne Boleyn. It was first broadcast abroad in April 2015 in the United States on PBS and in Australia on BBC First. The first series was a critical success and received eight nominations at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and three nominations at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, winning for Best Miniseries or Television Film.

The second series, adapted from The Mirror & the Light, the final novel in the trilogy, featured Mark Rylance, director Peter Kosminsky, and writer Peter Straughan returning; it was filmed between November 2023 and April 2024 and was first broadcast on 10 November 2024.

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