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TV's most sexy and scandalous hit drama is back with The Tudors: The Complete Third Season! Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as a young King Henry VIII, a ruler whose reign changed the course of history forever.

An axe-wielding executioner drunk on the job, and incompetent to boot. An English king who still fancies himself a ladies' man, despite a festering leg wound that keeps getting worse, despite his efforts to keep riding high in the saddle.

Gayle MacDonald Published on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 1:59PM EST S aturday night's 24th annual Gemini Awards will be broadcast live for 90 minutes from Calgary on Global and Showcase, starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Some stats on the program hosted by comedian Ron James to fete the best in Canadian television: 99: The number of awards that tip the hat to ...

Rhys Meyers and Dormer of "The Tudors" Every week, we look ahead to a soon-to-be-published title that piques our interest.

Amongst all the films that get thrown at us every year it's hard to remember who's coming out with what and when.

Henry Holt, 532 pp., $27. Historical tales of the Tudors usually involve heaving bosoms, flying heads and more intrigue in the bedroom than the boardroom.

Showtime unveiled a slew of premiere dates on Friday, including the returns of "United States of Tara" and "Nurse Jackie" -- which will air back-to-back starting in March -- the final season of "The Tudors" and the TV debut of "Twilight." New seasons of "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" and "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union" are also on their way ...

Gossip Girl : The CW showed a sneak peek of Leighton Meester 's new video "Somebody to Love" last night, and we have so many questions: When did "L" get so sun-scorchingly hot? What would Blair say about such blatant sexuality in the back of a limo? And we know in real life Leighton is gorgeous and famous and cool and dating Sebastian Stan , so how ...

Here's what's happening today on the small screen: * Henry the VIII is now a widower on The Tudors, and Cromwell is on a mission to find him a Protestant wife.

ONE OF this columnist's favorites is actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. He is heading into the final season of "The Tudors" on Showtime.

The first game of this year's World Series, with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver calling the action between the NL's Philadelphia Phillies and the AL's New York Yankees unfolds.

AFTER TAKING six awards in the Irish Film and Television Awards 'The Tudors' has finally run out of perishable wives and must draw a curtain on King Henry's reign in Bray.

Newt Gingrich explores the founding of America; a new novel revisits the storied Tudors; and Publishers Weekly names its top 10 books of 2009.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's 24th Gemini Awards bestowed 87 trophies for smallscreen achievement at four industry galas held on Monday and Tuesday night, with primetime series "The Tudors" and "Flashpoint," arts doc "The Young Romantic" and CBC News the top winners.

The Tudors, as fans of the Showtime TV series know, are hot. For another fictional -- though arguably more historically accurate -- account of that chapter in English history , there's writer Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall .

R.M. Vaughan Published on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 12:22PM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Oct.

CBC's The Tudors is heading into next month's televised Gemini Awards gala with four trophies, while CTV's slick cop series Flashpoint boasts three.

British singer Joss Stone performs. TORONTO - When Joss Stone has a musical itch, she has to scratch, even if it means getting into trouble with her label.

IT WAS a battle that, according to Shakespeare, would be remembered till 'the ending of the world'. And almost six centuries after the exhausted and disease-ridden army of Henry V defeated the much larger French forces at the Battle of Agincourt, it is still seen as one of this country's greatest victories.

Cromwell is still widely seen as the warty toad in the garden of the glamorous Henry VIII; Mantel portrays him as a decent man.