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Wolf Hall, A Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures Production, for BBC and Masterpiece in association with BBC Worldwide, Altus Media, and Prescience

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Wolf Hall

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A Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures Production, for BBC and Masterpiece in association with BBC Worldwide, Altus Media, and Prescience

"...one of the genuine pleasures of the small screen this year..."--Newsday"...quietly compelling..."--USA Today"Absorbing, hypnotic...simply unmissable." -- The Times [UK]

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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. Into this impass 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 VIII is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?Follow the meteoric rise of a man who becomes King Henry VIII's closest advisor. Adapted from Hilary Mantel's best-selling Booker Prize-winning novels: Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, Mark Rylance is Thomas Cromwell, a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man'. Damian Lewis is King Henry VIII, obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, Wolf Hall follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king and country, all while dealing with deadly political intrigue, Henry VIII's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn, and the religious upheavals of the Protestant reformationA historical drama for a modern audience, this unromanticized re-telling lifts the veil on the internal struggles England faced on the brink of Reformation. At the center of it all is Cromwell, navigating the moral complexities that accompany the exercise of power, trapped between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive

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