Addendum:  I suppose TWQ when it was on TV (I watched about ten minutes of it) did provide work for some members of the acting profession for a while.  TWQ having been one of those programmes where it is much more fun to read the reviews than to watch the actual show, one critic observed that Rebecca - not the singer - Ferguson was attractive and that "even pretty girls have to eat".  I suppose it's true that not every actress can secure a gig playing Hedda Gabler every week.

The Australian site Nerdalicious is announcing that a sequel to TWQ is being made - though this time the Beeb is distancing itself and not getting involved thank goodness http://nerdalicious.com.au/filmtv/philippa-gregorys-white-queen-gets-american-sequel/

After my post yesterday, in the afternoon I went to the launderette and read one of  the magazines lying around.  I may have made a remark above about Rebecca - not the singer - Ferguson not playing Hedda Gabler every week but actually she seems to be doing pretty well for herself because she has a part in the latest Mission Impossible film - and not a blink and you'll miss her part either.  I am probably as likely to watch Mission Impossible as I am TWQ part 2 but MI is very popular.

I somehow missed this gem from The Guardian in August 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/14/philippa-gregory-lazy-and-sloppy-genre-writing-pornography

I recently found a video by Claire Ridgeway (of the Tudor Society) about the accuracy of "The Other Boleyn Girl".  It's not a hatchet job on PG - just a logical explanation of what is fact and what is fiction.  It's 50 minutes long though.  https://youtu.be/lM2DXvRYqb8

LadyinRetirement wrote:

I recently found a video by Claire Ridgeway (of the Tudor Society) about the accuracy of "The Other Boleyn Girl".  It's not a hatchet job on PG - just a logical explanation of what is fact and what is fiction.  It's 50 minutes long though.  https://youtu.be/lM2DXvRYqb8

Lady,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2DXvRYqb8

Kind regards from Paul.

Coming back to this thread after some time, I have noted that nordmann had mentioned Claire Ridgeway a long while before I did.

Anyway, while looking for material to use as shorthand 'unseens', I came across a channel called The Laughing Cavalier who admits that his thumbnail isn't TLC picture.  The channel isn't limited to Tudors though it does give criticism (sometimes funny - to my mind anyhow) about various TV productions about historical events including the Tudor times or about fictional events in Tudor times.