Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One on Sunday, November 10, at 9pm, with new weekly episodes.
Reuniting the creative team from the BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning first series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is directed by seven-time BAFTA award winner Peter Kosminsky, adapted for television by Academy Award nominee Peter Straughan and produced by Colin Callender’s Playground and Company Pictures.
May 1536. Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, and five of her coterie are dead. As the axe drops, Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) emerges from the bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry (Damian Lewis), settles for short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips). Navigating the moral complexities accompanying the exercise of power in this brutal and bloody time, Cromwell is caught between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive. But in the wake of Henry VIII executing his queen, no one is safe.
Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad, and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies gather in the shadows, and the inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?
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Eagerly awaited and years in the making, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will trace the final four years of Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to the most feared, influential figure of his time. Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a diplomat and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.
Also starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Charlie Rowe, Harry Melling, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Pip Carter, Timothy Spall, Harriet Walter, Alex Jennings, Karim Kadjar, Tom Mothersdale, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Ellie de Lange, Lydia Leonard, Will Tudor and Jonathan Pryce, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light promises to be the jewel in the crown of this year’s autumn TV schedules.
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