Tudors Gets Fourth & Final Season

LOS ANGELES: Showtime has renewed The Tudors for its fourth and final season, to air in spring 2010, focusing on King Henry VIII’s relationships with his last two wives, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr.

The pickup of another ten-episode season comes on the heels of the third-season premiere of the acclaimed series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The fourth season will be written by series creator and executive producer Michael Hirst, with production slated to begin this June in Dublin. Hirst will have single-handedly written all 38 of the series one-hour episodes by the time the story is complete.

"I’m thrilled to complete the saga of Henry VIII as reconceived by Michael Hirst," said Robert Greenblatt, the president of entertainment at Showtime. "He and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have breathed new life into the costume drama by making it both modern in sensibility but also faithful to history. I think we proved that even after 500 years this is a great story."