[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for Becoming Elizabeth Season 1 Episode 6.] There are just two episodes left of Becoming Elizabeth, and in the Sunday, July 31, penultimate episode of the Starz show, viewers will get to see the aftermath of the last dramatic and bloody installment. In this TV Insider exclusive video, below, Princess Elizabeth (Alicia von Rittberg) continues to contend with the aftermath of her experiences with the abusive Thomas Seymour (Tom Cullen), this time with former housemate Lady Jane Grey (Game of Thrones‘ Bella Ramsey). The Tudor period drama tracks the teenage Elizabeth in the time directly following the death of King Henry VIII (good riddance). Her younger brother, Edward (Oliver Zetterström), is king, and tensions with her older sister, Mary (Romola Garai), increase by the day. Elizabeth has gone through a rapid, intense learning curve since her father’s death. The time has transformed her from naiveté to having a cold, steely wisdom that was hard won.
- 7/29/2022
- TV Insider
Becoming Elizabeth is shaping up to be one of the best shows of the year.
The Starz drama, starring Alicia von Rittberg as Elizabeth Tudor, airs its fourth episode on Sunday, July 3, at 9:00 p.m.
TV Fanatic scored an exclusive first look at the episode, which picks up in the aftermath of the party.
Elizabeth is alone and amongst strangers, worried about anyone discovering the truth about what happened in Chelsea.
The exclusive clip shows her confused and trying to make sense of all the big changes of late.
Mary (Romola Garai) is on hand to hurl some judgement at her half-sister as more details come to light.
It's a great scene that perfectly encapsulates the fraught relationship between the half-sisters.
"Long before she ascended the throne, young Elizabeth Tudor, played by Alicia von Rittberg, was an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court,...
The Starz drama, starring Alicia von Rittberg as Elizabeth Tudor, airs its fourth episode on Sunday, July 3, at 9:00 p.m.
TV Fanatic scored an exclusive first look at the episode, which picks up in the aftermath of the party.
Elizabeth is alone and amongst strangers, worried about anyone discovering the truth about what happened in Chelsea.
The exclusive clip shows her confused and trying to make sense of all the big changes of late.
Mary (Romola Garai) is on hand to hurl some judgement at her half-sister as more details come to light.
It's a great scene that perfectly encapsulates the fraught relationship between the half-sisters.
"Long before she ascended the throne, young Elizabeth Tudor, played by Alicia von Rittberg, was an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court,...
- 6/30/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
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Happy Friday! Let's celebrate the end of the week with the news that Uwe Boll ("the worst director alive", (c) The Village Voice) has taken to Kickstarter for his new film, Postal 2.
The fabulously larger-than-life director - the man behind video game-to-film transplant House of the Dead and the under-rated Blubberella ("An action comedy centered on an overweight woman whose footsteps cause explosions" - IMDb) - has taken to crowd-funding in his typically brash style. Postal 2 will have a bodycount that's "higher as Hiroshima and Dancing with the Stars combined". And where will donors money go? "The money goes all for cocaine for the stars down the nose." Godspeed Uwe! If Spike Lee can do it, why can't you?
Today's other news ...
- James Spader will play the villain in Avengers: Age of Ultron, while Justin Timberlake has...
News today
Happy Friday! Let's celebrate the end of the week with the news that Uwe Boll ("the worst director alive", (c) The Village Voice) has taken to Kickstarter for his new film, Postal 2.
The fabulously larger-than-life director - the man behind video game-to-film transplant House of the Dead and the under-rated Blubberella ("An action comedy centered on an overweight woman whose footsteps cause explosions" - IMDb) - has taken to crowd-funding in his typically brash style. Postal 2 will have a bodycount that's "higher as Hiroshima and Dancing with the Stars combined". And where will donors money go? "The money goes all for cocaine for the stars down the nose." Godspeed Uwe! If Spike Lee can do it, why can't you?
Today's other news ...
- James Spader will play the villain in Avengers: Age of Ultron, while Justin Timberlake has...
- 8/30/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Cancer, arrests and exile from Tehran haven't stopped Mania Akbari from making her politicised, potent films. Tom Seymour meets Iran's iron lady
Among the laptops and the lattes in the foyer of London's BFI Southbank sits a dissident and exile. Film-maker Mania Akbari fled her native Tehran last summer. She is determined to examine marriage, abortion, infidelity and lesbianism at home in Iran. She has explored what it's like to lose your breasts to cancer. She has made films that have upset and shocked the religious establishment. Now, after 15 years of censorship, "of living in fear and frustration", Akbari is finally seeing her films screened commercially for the first time.
The 39-year-old actor, writer and director is not in the UK by choice. During production of her latest film, From Tehran to London (originally titled Women Do Not Have Breasts), members of her crew were arrested by Iranian authorities for supposedly filming without official permission.
Among the laptops and the lattes in the foyer of London's BFI Southbank sits a dissident and exile. Film-maker Mania Akbari fled her native Tehran last summer. She is determined to examine marriage, abortion, infidelity and lesbianism at home in Iran. She has explored what it's like to lose your breasts to cancer. She has made films that have upset and shocked the religious establishment. Now, after 15 years of censorship, "of living in fear and frustration", Akbari is finally seeing her films screened commercially for the first time.
The 39-year-old actor, writer and director is not in the UK by choice. During production of her latest film, From Tehran to London (originally titled Women Do Not Have Breasts), members of her crew were arrested by Iranian authorities for supposedly filming without official permission.
- 7/15/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
This 1953 film recasts the young Elizabeth I as a rapacious Scarlett O'Hara who chases after Thomas Seymour
Young Bess (1953)
Director: George Sidney
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: B
Princess Elizabeth of England, known as Bess, was born in 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She would become queen as Elizabeth I in 1558.
People
At the beginning of the film, the infant Bess is in the care of her nursemaid, Katherine Ashley, who has an appalling habit of talking about her in a syrupy voice using the first person plural: "All we have to do is to see to it that our new stepmother likes us, our appearance, our little ways, and our manners." The princess is being taken to meet her father's latest wife, Anne of Cleves. "Now listen carefully," says Mrs Ashley, wagging her finger. "This one is German. Don't forget that. After all, it's not her fault.
Young Bess (1953)
Director: George Sidney
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: B
Princess Elizabeth of England, known as Bess, was born in 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She would become queen as Elizabeth I in 1558.
People
At the beginning of the film, the infant Bess is in the care of her nursemaid, Katherine Ashley, who has an appalling habit of talking about her in a syrupy voice using the first person plural: "All we have to do is to see to it that our new stepmother likes us, our appearance, our little ways, and our manners." The princess is being taken to meet her father's latest wife, Anne of Cleves. "Now listen carefully," says Mrs Ashley, wagging her finger. "This one is German. Don't forget that. After all, it's not her fault.
- 8/25/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
In her new biography, Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII (St. Martin’s Press), British historian Linda Porter paints a rare, full-scale portrait of England’s oft-overlooked queen consort. Usually portrayed as a matronly figure who nursed Henry as his health declined, the king’s sixth wife started quite a scandal when she came frighteningly close to being arrested for heresy and later secretly married her old flame, Sir Thomas Seymour, shortly after his majesty’s death. Below, Porter recalls the lengthy proposal process and quiet wedding ceremony for 30-year-old Katherine and 52-year-old Henry in 1543. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 11/30/2010
- Vanity Fair
Last week’s episode was so macabre and enjoyable that I had a hard time even wanting to watch this week.
I felt for sure that I would be let down after all the excitement of torture and executions. Turns out I was right to be concerned; this episode was a bit of a snooze and also shorter than others (just 42 minutes). Maybe the writers needed a little break after all the kooky stuff that went on seven days before.
We were introduced to Catherine Parr, the future wife of our King, and she sticks out as being both older than a teenager and for being one of the few wives so far who really would prefer not to be with the King (besides Anne of Cleves, the other girls threw themselves at him). Catherine looks nowhere near as fun as our beloved Catherine Howard.
This newer Catherine has already...
I felt for sure that I would be let down after all the excitement of torture and executions. Turns out I was right to be concerned; this episode was a bit of a snooze and also shorter than others (just 42 minutes). Maybe the writers needed a little break after all the kooky stuff that went on seven days before.
We were introduced to Catherine Parr, the future wife of our King, and she sticks out as being both older than a teenager and for being one of the few wives so far who really would prefer not to be with the King (besides Anne of Cleves, the other girls threw themselves at him). Catherine looks nowhere near as fun as our beloved Catherine Howard.
This newer Catherine has already...
- 5/17/2010
- by matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)
- TVfanatic
Looks like Henry won't be wasting any time in securing his sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr (to be playing by Joley Richardson). Showtime has released promo photos and a synopsis for the May 16 new episode of The Tudors.
In a surprise decision, the King orders a new Act of Parliament, which restores the succession rights of his two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Mary. Although they are next in line after their youngest brother Edward, this powerful gesture of his love will have historical consequences.
The King dispatches Hertford and his arch enemy, the Earl of Surrey, north to warn the King of Scotland that any further acts of aggression will be responded to with the might of England’s armies. But Surrey is no man for issuing warnings and the body count is high at the Battle of Solway Moss.
Meanwhile, both the ambassador of France and the ambassador...
In a surprise decision, the King orders a new Act of Parliament, which restores the succession rights of his two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Mary. Although they are next in line after their youngest brother Edward, this powerful gesture of his love will have historical consequences.
The King dispatches Hertford and his arch enemy, the Earl of Surrey, north to warn the King of Scotland that any further acts of aggression will be responded to with the might of England’s armies. But Surrey is no man for issuing warnings and the body count is high at the Battle of Solway Moss.
Meanwhile, both the ambassador of France and the ambassador...
- 5/9/2010
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
As the fourth season of The Tudors kicks off...
Everyone is mopping their sweaty brows but no one thinks to remove some of the many, many layers of clothing they each wear. Spanish Ambassador Chapuis writes to the Spanish Emperor about heartless King Henry and the some 500 men he has incarcerated as heretics, both Catholics and Protestants.
Chapuis also believes that the King is already secretly married to seventeen-year-old Catherine Howard.
At the palace, Henry comes to visit his nubile new bride. Catherine is laying on her bed behind a gauzy curtain and she is naked save for the thousands of rose petals scattered around her, American Beauty-style. The King gives her a yucky-old-man-looking-at-hot-teen-wife look. Catherine lures him into bed and…well, you know.
In a large room at the palace, sweaty aristocrats have gathered for a celebration. The royal trumpets blare and out comes King Henry kissing Catherine.
Everyone is mopping their sweaty brows but no one thinks to remove some of the many, many layers of clothing they each wear. Spanish Ambassador Chapuis writes to the Spanish Emperor about heartless King Henry and the some 500 men he has incarcerated as heretics, both Catholics and Protestants.
Chapuis also believes that the King is already secretly married to seventeen-year-old Catherine Howard.
At the palace, Henry comes to visit his nubile new bride. Catherine is laying on her bed behind a gauzy curtain and she is naked save for the thousands of rose petals scattered around her, American Beauty-style. The King gives her a yucky-old-man-looking-at-hot-teen-wife look. Catherine lures him into bed and…well, you know.
In a large room at the palace, sweaty aristocrats have gathered for a celebration. The royal trumpets blare and out comes King Henry kissing Catherine.
- 4/16/2010
- by matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)
- TVfanatic
Joss Stone is trading in her soulful singing voice for a German accent. Starting Sunday, the British musician plays Anne of Cleves - the fourth wife of England's King Henry VIII - in the season's last two episodes of The Tudors. "I enjoyed wearing the dresses," Stone tells People of her 16th-century wardrobe. "But the thing about Anne of Cleves is, she was not supposed to be attractive. Anne, let's be honest, was described as quite frumpy and ugly. But hey, I did it! I did my best! They had no problem making me ugly. Lots of makeup!" Modesty aside,...
- 5/16/2009
- PEOPLE.com
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