Adaptations of Shakespeare's plays about British monarchs.
Show Details:
Start date: June 2012
End date: May 2016
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 120 min
Episodes: 7 eps
Genre(s): Drama
End date: May 2016
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 120 min
Episodes: 7 eps
Genre(s): Drama
Credits:
- Ben Whishaw as Richard II
- Jeremy Irons as Henry IV
- Tom Hiddleston as Henry V
- Tom Sturridge as Henry VI
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III
- Geoffrey Streatfeild as Edward IV
- Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff
- Tom Georgeson as Bardolph
- James Laurenson as Westmoreland
- Julie Walters as Mistress Quickly
- Anton Lesser as Exeter
- John Mackay as Brakenbury
- Sophie Okonedo as Queen Margaret
- Alun Armstrong as Northumberland
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 30 Jun 12 | Richard II |
| 2. | 1-2 | 07 Jul 12 | Henry IV Part 1 |
| 3. | 1-3 | 14 Jul 12 | Henry IV Part 2 |
| 4. | 1-4 | 21 Jul 12 | Henry V |
| Season 2 The Wars of the Roses | |||
| 5. | 2-1 | 07 May 16 | Henry VI Part 1 |
| 6. | 2-2 | 14 May 16 | Henry VI Part 2 |
| 7. | 2-3 | 21 May 16 | Richard III |