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Why We Had to Wait 10 Years for the Wolf Hall Sequel
And how producer Colin Callender is fighting for “quintessentially British” TV like his other hit, All Creatures Great and Small.
In addition to generating huge ratings in both Britain and America, the BBC-PBS adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize –winning novels scored near-universal critical acclaim, a Peabody Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA wins for Best Limited Series, and no less than eight Emmy nominations. To some, it might seem surprising that a six-hour period drama about the political machinations of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII in 16th-century England would end up such a smashing success — and lead to an equally acclaimed follow-up, The Mirror and the Light, which premieres in the U.S. this Sunday on Masterpiece. Nickleby ’s triumph foreshadowed what would become the hallmarks of Callender’s five-decade (and counting) entertainment career: finding success in unexpected places, leaning into changing business models, and doing so with the kind of prestige programming that most platforms reject for not being “commercial” enough.
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