Wolf Hall or similar

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I really fell in love with Wolf Hall, the tv adaptation of the Hilary Mantel book. I watched the 2nd series too.

Anyone else liked it and anyone have recommendations of similar type of drama?

The Tudors? The White Princess. The White Queen. There are loads. Why not Google ‘tv like wolf hall’.

Yeah, I have done that but if we all Google everything then there will be no chat on the chat forum

I was looking for a chat about it actually, that’s why I posted on a chat forum

How about War and Peace on Iplayer ?

The Serpent Queen . Channel 4. About Catherine de’ Medici. Roughly covers some of the Tudor/Elizabethan age.

You might enjoy the BBCs original Elizabeth the I with marvellous Glenda Jackson.
"The Tudors" and " Wolf Hall" are chalk and cheese, though they cover the same subject matter.

I enjoyed War and Peace. There was also one about the Norman invasion recently but I can't remember what it was called.

House of Guiness is a different style of historical drama, but quite good.

Bridge of Spies - completely different era (Cold War) but somewhat based on a true story and stars Mark Rylance.

I think I've seen that the BBC are doing a programme about Anne Bolyn's ladies in waiting and the part they played in her downfall. I'll probably watch it although im not sure how many more stories we need about her. Hilary Mantels AB was beautifully written and Claire Foy played her perfectly. Id quite like to see something with Katherine of Aragons story or maybe Catherine Parr- she served as regent for a while- was that part of why Henry restored his daughters to the line of succession i wonder

The Tudors! 🤣🤣
Wolf Hall is a masterpiece in my opinion. Without equals. I like it so much that my children say I'm in love with Thomas Cromwell, but only Mantel's Cromwell.

Have you seen Becoming Elizabeth? I enjoyed that. I love quiet TV. Serpent Queen is good too, but it is not stylistically similar at all. Also I like Firebrand. I think it's Jude Laws best performance but a lot of people struggle with the historical inaccuracy and seem quite vocal about it. Quite how The Tudors got away with it I do not know.

Firebrand: Enjoyed Jude Law but hated what they did to the truth.

Another oldie but goodie: I, Claudius. Probably still on BBC iplayer.

The Virgin Queen with Anne Marie Duff was good, plus Tom Hardy is Dudley, which can only be a good thing..
For the same kind of quiet, 'interior', feel of Wolf Hall, you might like the Persuasion film with Amanda Root. It has the same feel in many ways, although obviously a much later period.

I don’t know if it’s on iPlayer but the Hollow Crown which is Shakespeare’s history plays. I’m not a Shakespeare buff by any means but I enjoyed it.

I third War and Peace.

Oh these recommendations are excellent, I see a lot of them are on the iPlayer which I have to watch through a VPN as I am living abroad at the moment, probably why I am yearning for English history.

Wolf Hall was so incredible I don’t think I will ever find something I love so much. What a pleasure it was to watch it.

I actually haven’t seen any of the ones recommended here apart from giving the Guinness one a whirl.

I love Wolf Hall so much (in all its forms-I watched a performance of classical music with extracts from it being read during it on Tuesday night and it was fantastic), that it’s hard to find anything to rival it. I love the Tudors, but it’s a soap opera really. I wish they would make another great drama about something of that period or the adjacent 100 years in either direction. I got really excited last week as they were filming something at Burghley house near me for a week, and I had high hopes it would be a period drama about Lord Cecil or something of that ilk, but it turned out to be scenes for The Diplomat.

Have you read the books? Marvellous. I have to say the TV show did them justice.

For an ' interior' book and film, as pp put it, I would also recommend " Remains of the Day".

I liked Pillars of the Earth which is set in the early modern period - rarely explored period!

May be hard to get hold of though…

The Wolf Hall audiobooks read by Ben Miles are magnificent, if you haven’t listened.

Laughing at the first reply saying The Tudors and “just Google it”…. yeah, if she googles it she might get suggestions such as The Tudors simply because they’re set in the same time period, but are nothing alike in terms of production.

OP, different time periods but some suggestions from me are: Cranford (BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell novels), Lark Rise to Candleford, North and South (Richard Armitage one), I assume you’ve watched the Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility? And the new/current series on the BBC The Other Bennet Sister is worth a watch. An old one that is difficult to find is Aristocrats, based on the lives of the Lennox sisters. I haven’t watched it yet but a friend has recommended Outrageous, based on the Mitford Sisters.

Someone mentioned The Pillars of the Earth series- I am reading them at the moment, I haven’t watched the TV version though.

Have you read the CJ Sansom Shardlake books- he is a Tudor lawyer detective, books such as Dissolution etc, the books are great. There is a series of it on Disney+ that is a bit more ‘The Tudors’ than ‘Wolf Hall’, for example Sean Bean plays Cromwell!

Oh I just remembered Mary & George, series with Julianne Moore in it, it’s Stuart times (King James 1).

I love the Shardlake books.
Found Mary and George a bit sensationalised, though Julianne Moore is excellent.