Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus but his arrival may be a couple of years off. Oscar-winning actor Sir Mark Rylance has confirmed he is set to reprise the role of Thomas Cromwell in a TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror And The Light. The BAFTA/Golden Globe winning and critically acclaimed 2015 series merged […]
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PBS’ adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall novels took home the Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Golden Globe last night, dethroning last year’s winner Fargo. Other series nominated in the category were American Crime, American Horror Story: Hotel, and Flesh and Bone. Nominated for a total of eight Primetime Emmy Awards earlier this year, Wolf Hall, the […]
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Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, are headed to American telly this Sunday (as in, tomorrow) on PBS. This nothing short of brilliant small screen adaptation of Mantel’s Tudor novels will chronicle the meteoric rise to power of Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) from a blacksmith’s son to Henry VIII’s […]
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Both the BBC and PBS confirmed Saturday that Tony and Olivier award-winning actor Mark Rylance will play Thomas Cromwell in the BBC’s upcoming adaptation of the novels from author Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The six-part drama, which will air on BBC Two and PBS’ Masterpiece series, will be overseen by […]
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