HBO, BBC Team for ‘1536’ Drama From Writer Ava Pickett

The series is based on the 'How to Get to Heaven From Belfast' writer's play, which just ended a run in London's West End.

1536, a drama series set in the heart of Tudor England against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s arrest, is heading to the U.S. after HBO boarded the project. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network will co-produce the eight-part series with the BBC, which commissioned it earlier this year. 1536 comes from The Great write

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 terr