The extraordinary life of Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France, who married into the French court as an orphaned teenager expected to bring in a fortune in dowry and produce heirs, only to discover that her husband was in love with an older woman and that she could not conceive children. Based on the book by Leonie Frieda.
Show Details:
Start date: Sep 2022
End date: Aug 2024
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): Starz (US)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 16 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Historical
End date: Aug 2024
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): Starz (US)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 16 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Historical
Credits:
- Samantha Morton as Catherine de Medici
- Amrita Acharia as Aabis
- Enzo Cilenti as Cosimo Ruggeri
- Barry Atsma as Montmorency
- Nicholas Burns as Antoine de Bourbon
- Danny Kirrane as Louis de Bourbon
- Sennia Nanua as Rahima
- Beth Goddard as Antoinette de Guise
- Antonia Clarke as Mary Queen of Scots
- George Jaques as Francis II recurring:
- Charles Dance as Pope Clement
- Liv Hill as Young Catherine
- Kiruna Stamell as Mathilde
- Colm Meaney as King Francis
- Rebecca Gethings as Queen Eleanor
- Ray Panthaki as Charles de Guise
- Raza Jaffrey as François de Guise
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 11 Sep 22 | Medici Bitch (55 min) |
| 2. | 1-2 | 18 Sep 22 | To War Rather Than To Bed |
| 3. | 1-3 | 25 Sep 22 | The Price (57 min) |
| 4. | 1-4 | 02 Oct 22 | A New Era (55 min) |
| 5. | 1-5 | 09 Oct 22 | The First Regency |
| 6. | 1-6 | 16 Oct 22 | The Last Joust |
| 7. | 1-7 | 23 Oct 22 | An Attack on the King |
| 8. | 1-8 | 30 Oct 22 | A Queen Is Made |
| Season 2 | |||
| 9. | 2-1 | 12 Jul 24 | Grand Tour |
| 10. | 2-2 | 19 Jul 24 | Second Coming |
| 11. | 2-3 | 26 Jul 24 | Death of a Prince |
| 12. | 2-4 | 02 Aug 24 | Judas |
| 13. | 2-5 | 09 Aug 24 | Time With the Family |
| 14. | 2-6 | 16 Aug 24 | Courting the Valois |
| 15. | 2-7 | 23 Aug 24 | A House Divided |
| 16. | 2-8 | 30 Aug 24 | All Saints Day |