TELEVISION
Aug 08, 2021
3 minutes
SATURDAY AUGUST 14
DRAMA: ANNE BOLEYN
This three-part miniseries about the final five months in the life of Anne Boleyn touts itself as a feminist rethink about the second wife of Henry VIII – and the first one he had beheaded. “It’s time for her side of the story,” says the TVNZ publicity about the drama, originally made for Britain’s Channel 5, which rather forgets the pile of previous productions that portrayed her as a brave woman whose intelligence attracted the king, but who was doomed aft er failing to produce a which starred Claire Foy as Boleyn, the mother of Elizabeth I, before she went on to play Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of
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