Starz

Premium cable network Starz will air the 2018 BBC period drama Death and Nightingales - starring Jamie Dornan, Ann Skelly, and Matthew Rhys - this May. 

With a fresh setting and a sumptuous budget, Starz period drama The Luminaries feels like it should have been something special. Instead, its ultimately bland and confusing story squanders a solid cast. 

Premium cable network Starz continues to burnish its reputation as a home for female-fronted historical dramas, greenlighting a new adaptation focused on the life of the infamous Catherine de Medici called The Serpent Queen. 

Cable network Starz is continuing their comment to telling female-focused historical stories and is developing a new drama based on the famous life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Though Starz period drama The Spanish Princess stretches the truth a bit about Catherine of Aragon's historical role in the Battle of Flodden, that in no way diminishes the impact - or importance - of the story the show is trying to tell. 

The first trailer for The Spanish Princess Season 2 shows Catherine of Aragon preparing for battle - in more ways than one.