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Happy Halloween! – Oct 31, 2019

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Getting Caught in Damian’s Web

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | October 31, 2019

Happy Halloween to all our ghoul and goblin fans out there, from all of us at the Fan Fun with Damian Lewis team! One of these critters in the photo above is not a fake graphic. Can you spot the real deal? You can ‘Trick or Treat’ with us at damian-lewis.com, but don’t forget to grab your cauldron and head over to our sister site Fan Fun with Damian Lewis for more spooky spectacular goodies. We serve all things Damian – all day, every day!

In keeping with the Halloween theme, you can watch Damian on your small screen in the following:

Dreamcatcher (who’s up for lots of killings and blood?!) – stream on Amazon Prime Video
Hearts and Bones (no skeleton bones harmed in the making of this) – stream on Amazon Prime Video
Wolf Hall (who’s up for a beheading, raise your hand!) – stream on Amazon Prime Video
Romeo and Juliet (death by poisoning anyone?) – stream on Amazon Prime Video
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (contract killing with an accent) – stream on Amazon Prime Video
Assassin in Love aka The Baker (contract killing…in a cake) – stream on Amazon Prime Video

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TV bosses pounce on delayed final novel in Wolf Hall trilogy

On May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 By Damianista Comments Off

The Mirror and The Light

Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent | David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent I The Times I May 25, 2019

The book is several years behind schedule but a television adaptation of the final instalment of Dame Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy is already under way.

The team behind the acclaimed BBC adaptations of the first two novels have confirmed that they are in the “active development” phase of bringing the finale to the small screen.

Mantel’s publisher revealed this week that The Mirror & the Light, the concluding part of her series about Thomas Cromwell, will go on sale next March. The author had said in April 2017 that she hoped to have it finished by early 2018.

Wolf Hall, the first book in the series, was published in 2009, followed three years later by Bring Up the Bodies. They were adapted for television by the BBC in 2015, starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn. The six-part series was directed by Peter Kosminsky and written by Peter Straughan. Both men are involved with the follow-up, according to the production company Playground.

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Will Damian Be Reprising His Role as Henry VIII? – May 22, 2019

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Hilary Mantel’s Conclusion to Wolf Hall Trilogy Set to be Released in 2020

by Arts & Entertainment Staff | BBC | May 22, 2019

Hilary Mantel’s next novel will be published on 5 March 2020, her publishers have announced.

The long-awaited book, the title of which was already known to be The Mirror and the Light, will complete the author’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy.

The first two novels in the trilogy – Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies – each won the Man Booker Prize.

In 2015, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were adapted into a Bafta and Emmy award-winning television series, starring Mark Rylance as Cromwell and Damian Lewis as King Henry.

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Royals on TV: A Ranking of the Best On-Screen Kings and Queens – March 23, 2019

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Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall

by Katie Rosseinsky | The Evening Standard |

Whatever your thoughts on the royals, there’s no denying that Britain’s most famous family make good TV.

From Wolf Hall to Victoria to Netflix’s The Crown, many of the most talked-about (and most critically acclaimed) series of recent years have all taken inspiration from royal history, be it centuries old or within living memory.

With the third seasons of Victoria and The Crown coming soon (and amid feverish speculation over future casting decisions for the latter show), the industry’s fascination with what goes on behind palace doors shows no sign of waning.

As the Jenna Coleman-led Victoria returns to the small screen this weekend, we’ve ranked some recent royal performances, in ascending order from the middling to the truly unforgettable.

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In the Realm of TV Entertainment, Royal Dramas Reign – Feb 28, 2019

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Fans of Royal TV

by Matthew Gilbert | Boston Globe | February 28, 2019

I’m a sucker for the royal dramas. They marry history to warped family dynamics, and they’re generally quite pretty and transporting. They’re like “Succession,” HBO’s Murdoch family send-up, except with a majestic makeover, more servants, and at least one crown. There’s treachery, there are big castles, and at the center of it all there is the distorted psychology of a person who has inherited, not necessarily earned, a position closer to God than we mere mortals.

These shows are just what the Anglophile TV doctor ordered, a spot of tea as the cure for the uncountably many grim crime-solving dramas and superhero spectacles elsewhere on the schedule. For some viewers, royal dramas, like period novel adaptations, are too staid, too mired in the subtleties of their indirect exchanges to be entertaining. But for me, it’s fascinating to watch lives constrained by rigid social and dynastic rules, as messy human needs struggle against ancient policies. Things can get ugly around the palace, for sure, but most of the time the messes are hidden behind an elegant veneer of dignity.

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Happy Halloween! – Oct 31, 2018

On October 31, 2018November 1, 2018 By Gingersnap Comments Off

Get Caught in His Web

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | October 31, 2018

Happy Halloween to all our ghoul and goblin fans out there, from all of us at Fan Fun with Damian Team! You can ‘Trick or Treat’ with us at damian-lewis.com, but don’t forget to grab your cauldron and head over to Fun Fun with Damian Lewis for more spooky spectacular goodies. We serve all things Damian all day, every day!

To keep with the Halloween theme, watch Damian in:

Dreamcatcher – stream on Netflix or Amazon Prime

Hearts and Bones – stream on BritBox

Wolf Hall (who’s up for a beheading, raise your hand!) – stream on Amazon Prime

Romeo and Juliet (death by poisoning anyone?) – stream on Amazon Prime

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (contract killing with an accent) – stream on Amazon Prime

Assassin in Love aka The Baker (contract killing…in a cake) – stream on Amazon Prime

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Seven Historical TV Shows That Have Tourists Flocking to Britain – Aug 14, 2018

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by Emma Mason | BBC History Magazine | August 14, 2018

Here, we look at seven historical TV dramas that are attracting tourists from Britain and beyond.

#5 Wolf Hall

The six-part BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies was a huge hit both on and off-screen. Starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII, the 2015 drama sent fans flocking to filming locations including Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, the real-life Wolf Hall; Chastleton House in Oxfordshire, which portrayed scenes from Cromwell’s childhood in Putney; and Montacute House in Somerset, which was used as the setting for Greenwich Palace – Henry VIII’s main London seat and the site of Anne Boleyn’s arrest in Wolf Hall.

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