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Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall returns with new BBC series
The new Wolf Hall series, written by the late Hilary Mantel, centre, will again star Damian Lewis, left, as Henry VIII and Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell
Eight years after the beheading of Anne Boleyn in the BBC’s adaptation of Wolf Hall, filming is to start on the final series of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will pick up the story of Thomas Cromwell’s life in May 1536 as Henry VIII prepares to marry Jane Seymour following his second wife’s execution.
Mark Rylance, 63, will reprise his Bafta-winning role as Henry’s chief fixer as he tries to balance the demands of a capricious master with seeking to do what he believes to be right.
The Times called Rylance’s acting “one of the wonders of our TV times”
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The six-part drama traces the last four years of Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to one of the most feared and influential figures of his time.
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