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The Tudors gets green-lit for second season in Ireland

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Major TV series The Tudors – starring Irish Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Match Point [+see also:
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) and Maria Doyle Kennedy (Tara Road) – has been given the green light to return to shoot a second series in Ireland this summer.

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The €25m series focuses on the turbulent early years of King Henry VIII's reign as King of England, and will shoot for five months in Ardmore Studios and key locations around Dublin and Wicklow starting June 4. Irish spending on The Tudors is expected to be approximately €15m.

The first series of The Tudors is currently being broadcast on the Showtime channel in the US and opened to the largest audience ever received by a Showtime series in the history of the channel. Previous locations on the series include Christchurch Cathedral, Kilruddery House, City Hall and Kilmainham Jail.

As a result of funding that the project received from the IFB International Production Fund, there will once again be two Irish directors attached to direct episodes of the series.

“The return of…Showtime and The Tudors to Ireland is testament to the creative talent of the Irish producers and crew who helped produced a world-class series. The Tudors is the first of a number of TV series we expect to film in Ireland this year”, said Naoise Barry, Film Commissioner, Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann.

The Tudors was produced by TM Productions and PA Tudors, with the support of Morgan O’Sullivan’s production company World 2000 Entertainment. It is an Irish/Canadian co-production and co-financed by the Irish Film Board/ Bord Scannán na hÉireann through the IFB international production fund.

The second series of The Tudors will be broadcast on Showtime in 2008.

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