HBO Board BBC’s Tudor Drama Series ‘1536’ Based on Ava Pickett’s West End Play

HBO have boarded the BBC’s television adaptation of Ava Pickett’s West End play “1536.” HBO and the BBC are set to co-produce the six-episode series, which follows the lives of three working class women in Tudor England against the backdrop of Henry VIII’s failing relationship with Anne Boleyn. “A darkly comic and terrifyingly relevant story…