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It’s not every day that a 400-year-old love affair takes the internet by storm. But social media was abuzz with questions about King James I and his dashing companion, George Villiers, when Starz announced the new series “Mary & George,” which features Tony Curran and Nicolas Galitzine as the 17th century monarch and the man he elevated to the top of Jacobean society. Like the sex-fueled, late-2000s series “The Tudors” before it, the new seven-part period drama from British playwright D.
But also, every Shakespearean play had a comedian in it who would come on and do a sort of bit. The high and low always existed together,” D.C. Moore, whose TV-writing credits include “Killing Eve,” told NBC News. Giving examples of tavern-goers singing about George’s role at court and the monarch’s own irreverent style of banter, the writer added, “The Duke of Buckingham was known colloquially in the taverns at the time as the ‘Duke of F---ing-ham.
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Review: Nicola Walker and Julianne Moore singe the screen with wit and wickedness in 'Mary & George'Oscar winner Moore can play bad with the best of them.
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