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Shardlake is a four-part television series on Disney+ based on the Shardlake series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. The series is adapted by Stephen Butchard and directed by Justin Chadwick and produced by The Forge.
The series' protagonist is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak.. Shardlake works on commission, initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution [2] and Dark Fire, [3] then archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation, [4] queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation, and lately princess Elizabeth in Tombland.
“We don’t see a lot of leading disabled characters,” says Arthur Hughes, who plays the title character. Shardlake is a clever lawyer who solves puzzles and problems during the reign of King ...
Shardlake has the sort of brooding, masculine presence that is something of a trope in modern detective series (Broadchurch, True Detective, Luther etc), but more interesting in this setting ...
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Kaos (stylised as KAOS) is a British mythological dark comedy television series created by Charlie Covell for Netflix. It revolves around three humans as they discover their common connection to a prophecy and to each other while dealing with the corrupt and arrogant gods of Greek and Roman mythology. The series was released on Netflix on 29 ...
Disney+ is set to take viewers on a journey through Tudor England with its latest series, “Shardlake.” Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the ...
Helen, the wife of the Secretary of State for Defence, learns that her secret identity as a spy is in danger after her lover is killed by London's underworld.Her employers, the Black Doves, a spies-for-hire organisation – retrieving industrial, political or diplomatic secrets for the highest bidder – send Sam, an old friend, to protect her.