CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Film-makers can tell us to forget worries as many times as they like. If a tidal wave or a plane strike does tear open the Hinkley C nuclear reactor, we re all Fukushima d.
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Pish! Faugh! My lord Thomas Cromwell is annoyed. And well he might be, good sirrah. Not long ago he was the hero of Wolf Hall.
Now he s reduced to a walk-on part in a steaming pile of codswallop about Henry VIII s doomed wife, Anne Boleyn (C5). Plotting to loot the monasteries, Cromwell (Barry Ward) was so infuriated by the queen s opposition that he really did stalk from the room, muttering: Pish! Faugh!
If only he d thrown in a Gadzooks! or Odds bodkins! though there s time for that as the drama continues tonight and tomorrow. Practically every line in this Tudor costume melodrama was a shocker, lurching from fake Shakespeare to millennial slang.
Jodie Turner-Smith flashes fire and fury in Channel 5’s oh-so-serious Tudor drama, complete with a silly surplus of metaphors – and a weirdly wimpy Henry VIII. Wolf Hall it is not<br>