This Sunday, PBS will air the BBC's production of Dark Angel, which focuses on the life of Mary Ann Cotton, one of the 19th century's most prolific serial killers, and one that you've mostly likely never heard of.
King Charles III has all the hallmarks of a Shakespearean history play, one that tells that sad truth that "Monarchs should be seen and not heard." But what does it say about the United Kingdom that it insists on telling the tale of the end of our
King Charles IIIairs this weekend on Masterpiece, a Shakepearan style historical drama about history that hasn't actually happened yet. We reflect on the end of the second Elizabethan Age and the anxiety about it that has brought about such a drama
Wolf Hallreaches its inevitable conclusion, as Anne Boleyn fails to save herself, while Thomas Cromwell watches her fate, knowing one day it will most likely be his own.
In our penultimate episode of Wolf Hall, Cromwell changes the course of history twice, once when his desire to see Jane Seymour has unexpected consequences, and once when Henry VIII dies.