Damian Lewis fans line up for Wolf Hall tonight

[Travelledtheworld]

Wednesday 21st January BBC2 Channel 4

lush costumes.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11358197/Damian-Lewiss-inspiration-for-Wolf-Halls-Henry-VIII-Wills-and-Harry.html

[givemushypeasachance]

Mark Gatiss said on twitter that he was delighted with the response to his appearance in the programme but less thrilled people thought it was a false nose - all his own!

I think it was just that distinctly unflattering ear-covering bonnet thing the poor chap was wearing...

[squoosh]

Wow, that's his own schnozz? I thought he'd borrowed the nose Nicole Kidman wore in The Hours.

[SorrelForbes]

The SJ Parrish, Giordano Bruno books are worth a read if you like the Shardlake ones.

[marshmallowpies]

Mary Boleyn is a right naughty wench isn't she? The cheeky look she gave Cromwell while slagging off her sister was brilliant.

I wasn't sure Mark Rylance was quite right for Cromwell - especially age, he didn't look very much younger than the actor playing his father although that guy had clearly been 'grizzled up' to look older. But the scene with them together where Cromwell quietly put down the hammer at the end & you realised he was quite prepared to give his dad a good beating - woo, it was amazing.

I can't wait for the rest - this is my pet favourite period of history which I studied for A Level & I've always been a bit obsessed with it.

[marshmallowpies]

Lol @ Muddha - when I read A Place of Greater Safety it was Desmoulins I had the hots for!

[squoosh]

I keep meaning to give those Bruno books a whirl Sorrel.

[Ellisisland]

I just catched up with this on iplayer. Loved it. Thought Rylance was brilliant. Exactly as I pictured Cromwell especially as I reread the book recently. Really liked Jonathon Pryce as the cardinal as well.
Wonder if they will adapt the third book when it's released?

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

marshamallow Desmoulins was my favourite EVER but because of my adoration for Lucile I decided she could have him and turned my attention to Robespierre instead

until he started murdering all his friends

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

still lolling about Gatiss' nose

[Idontseeanysontarans]

Couldn't get into A Place Of Greater Safety at all, there were no sympathetic characters in it - they all seemed to be self absorbed psychopaths!
WH has been getting some really good reviews.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

God I loved it

I've reread a couple of times but never to the end because it's so awful

[ThrowAChickenInTheAir]

Squoosh Id absolutely LOVE to see Shardlake on TV or better still a film. Or maybe not. What if they botched it??!

Quite enjoyed Wolf Hall. A little heavy going but I will stick with it (for Mark Gatiss if for no other reason )

This def falls into the category of Thank God I Don't Have To Persevere With The Book (also for me, Lord of the Rings and most of Dickens ) The present tense thing..I just couldn't get past it.

I need to know...! The actress who played Cromwell's wife. What else has she been in??

[AnneofCheese]

I remember her from This Life!

[squoosh]

I loved to hate her in This Life. All that bitchy scheming under that 'what, sweet little me?' exterior.

She played Becky Sharp in a Vanity Fair adaptation too.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

it took me AGes to work that out!

wish she'd got a bit longer. I think she's great

(totally off point-have you also noticed that the barrister/Anna's snooty boss- Desmond? Derek? is in the trails for Cucumber. Took me ages to work that out as well)

[ThrowAChickenInTheAir]

Ahh that's it!! Thank you so much. It was driving me nuts.

[ageingdisgracefully]

Natasha Little was TC's wife, I think? I missed the bit with Thomas More in-who played him?

I still want to shout "gissa job!" when Norfolk comes on, though.

[punygod]

I thought Mark Rylance was brilliant. Watchful, shrewd, understated.
I was gripped by it, though I do think if anyone watching didn't know the facts there might have been one too many time leaps.

Intelligent telly for once though. Great stuff.

[Idontseeanysontarans]

Muddha in all fairness the end of A place of greater safety is beautifully handled.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

yy

don't get me wrong Idont

it's extraooooordinarily well done but gave me nightmares

[carabos]

Agree that MR doesn't have the burly bruiser thing going on, but he does look as if he could be fit and quick with a dagger between the ribs and not give it a thought. Gatiss was perfect as SG and Anton Lesser a surprise as the saintly More - revelatory in fact, until I saw it, I hadn't considered what a great politician he must have been. I'm going to watch it again.

[clary]

Totally missed that Joanne Whalley was Katherine aaargh she is old!

I still think of her in Singing Detective or even A Kind of Loving.

[DownyEmerald]

I loved it. Loved Rylance watching and thinking. I saw Joanne Whalley was in it (soft spot for her) and then didn't recognise her. I'm going to watch it again just for the sheer enjoyment of it. When his wife and girls died I was sobbing with tears and snot all over my face, no hanky, couldn't tear myself away to go get one, and dp just tapping away on his bloomin' tablet game no use whatsover.

To anyone who hasn't read it, and is put off by the size of the book - don't be. It is a long book, but from the first page I was gripped, and tbh it wasn't long enough!

[IrenetheQuaint]

I have very mixed feelings about Mark Rylance on stage - he is an appalling attention-seeker, like a talented but very needy six-year-old - but in Wolf Hall he was excellent. He'd clearly been very well directed and against my expectations got the part just right.

In the book (and real life, the records exist) the girls lived two years longer than Liz, but from a dramatic point of view I can see the reason for killing them all off together as I snivelled piteously on my sofa

[magimedi]

I did something I've never done before & watched it again this afternoon & enjoyed it even more.

It's so understated & underspoken which is what I think makes it so good.