“Wolf Hall” TV Adaptation Is BBC2’s Most Popular Drama Since Modern Ratings Began

“The six-part series, starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, had an average of 4.4 million viewers a week, a 15.8% share of the audience.” (The series will be broadcast in the US on PBS beginning April 5.)