Source: Variety
Showtime has confirmed that it will make a fourth Tudors season, allowing the historical drama to complete the saga of King Henry VIII. The fourth season will include 10 one-hour episodes and will air in the States in spring 2010.
Series creator and exec producer Michael Hirst will once again pen each script, with production slated to start in June '09 in Dublin.
The decision to renew 'The Tudors' comes after Showtime officials passed on series orders for four projects they'd been looking at closely during the past few weeks.
Insiders said that none of the skeins matched the creative expectations of a network that didn't launch a new series in 2008.
Showtime considered two finished pilots, family drama 'Possible Side Effects' from Tim Robbins and dark comedy 'End of Steve' from Peter Tolan and Matthew Perry; also mulled over were presentations of 'L Word' spinoff - 'The Farm' and Lionsgate comedy 'Ronna and Beverly' from 'Weeds' showrunner Jenji Kohan.
'The Tudors' season 3 (starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers) premiered on April 5 to 726,000 total viewers and a cumulative audience of 1.3 million once encores and on-demand viewing were factored in.
It's a shame that they won't be continuing the Tudor series, with a new version of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth's reign. Still...I guess the latter has almost been done to death now, and new ideas on how to depict Lizzie's reign might be few and far between.
I'm on episode 2 of the new series, and it continues to grab my attention as much as the first series did. Can't wait for episode 3! :)
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