I’ve been wanting to watch the Tutors series on Showtime for a long time, so I finally got showtime through my cable tv provider this month. Unfortunately, season one wasn’t available on demand only season two. I have been studying this era of history for quite sometime. I’ve read many books on King Henry VIII of England and his wives as well as his heirs, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, since Masterpiece theater came out with their series in the 1960s. I’ve also taken a course on Tutor England. The Tutors’ story told on Showtime is basically historically correct. Although their were some discrepancies. I watched short videos of The Tutors season one on showtime.com. One thing I found that was wrong in one of the episodes, Henry sent his best friend Charles Brandon to occupany his younger sister, Mary to marry the King of Portugal. Unless this changed in the full episode, what really happened was Mary married the King of France who was 60 years of age. Mary only agreed if she would be free to marry for love after the King of France died. When the King of France died, 3 months into the marriage, Henry sent Brandon to bring his sister back to England. Brandon and Mary secretly married. When Henry found out, he was going to execute Brandon for treason, as it was treason to marry any one of high birth without the permission of the King. However, Henry only banished Brandon and Mary from court. Other than this and maybe a few other incidents such as Ann Boleyn finding Jane Seymour in the arms of Henry the VIII kissing which was suggested being the reason for her misscarriage. In all my readings, I have never found this incident. All the books simply say that Anne miscarried right after Henry fell from his horse. However, Ann was aware of Henry’s interest in Jane. Another discrepancy, I have never found in my readings where one of the men, accused of adultury with Anne and executed, was in fact working for the Pope to bring Anne down. It might be true or believed to be true but I have never found it in any of the history books I’ve read. I do know one thing for sure, showtime has a lot of material to cover if they intend to cover the entire Tutor dynasty which lasted over 100 years and ended when Elizabeth I died in 1603. Jame I seceeded her and began the Stuart reign but he too was a decended of Henry VII. His grandmother was Henry VIII’s sister, Margaret Tudor.

This seasons lost finale told the story of how Jack, Kate, Hurley, Chin’s wife and Sayid got off the island. It also told all those who stayed and a few who died. Micheal and Chin supposedly got blown up or did they? We only saw the boat blow up. However, it is most likely Micheal died cause he was in the room with the explosives and Jack’s father’s ghost appeared which is a good indication he was killed. The person in the coffin that was left unanswered last season was revealed - it was Locke who had stayed on the island. This raises new questions to be answered next season. Jack wants to go back to the island. He finds out from Ben at the end that none of them should have left the island - it caused a lot of bad things to happen - and that was left open for speculation too. Ben tells Jack that everyone has to go back together and he will tell Jack how to do this (next season). Other things that happened: Locke was left as the new leader of the Others. Julian stayed behind. The people from the boat who were supposedly part of the rescue team stayed - Charlotte and another guy I don’t know his name. Sawyer jumped into the ocean from the helicopter that was taking Jack and the rest of the 6 survivors to the boat. He did so cause they needed to lighten the helicopter cause it was losing fuel from a bullet hole. Anyway, there is a lot of things happening in this episode. So, if you missed this episode or any other episode or want to refresh your memory, watch it on abc.com

Last night was the 2 hour finale of Greys Anatomy. The main theme of the show was love. There was a boy who jumped into cement to impress a girl. The doctors had a time trying to figure out how to save the boy’s life. 2 patients of Dr. McDreamy and Meredith were in love and had the procedure that puts a live virus in a brain tumor to kill it. Of these 2, the boy died but the girl survived. She was the first of 13 patients undergoing this procedure performed by Meredith and Derek to survive. This brought Derek and Meredith back together. It was a happy ending for most everyone. Meredith through counseling came to terms with her dead mother who was the reason she was having problems with intimacy. She and Dr. McDreamy got back together. Derek told Rose so he could start anew with Meredith with a clear conscious. There’s a whole lot of other issues that were resolved in this finale. Like the chief going back to live with his wife. George being giving a second chance by retaking the exam to make him a resident. Yang finally taking over a surgery and the chief chewing out Hawn for not teaching Yang and not allowing her to do surgeries. Yang also gets the sparkle pager. There’s more too so if you haven’t seen it, you can watch it on abc.com.

Last night on american idol, David Cook was the winner. He started crying. I really didn’t know which David was going to win cause Tuesday night, David Archuleta actually out sung David Cook. David Cook went into the competition Tuesday night saying he felt like both of them had already won and that he was just going to have fun. He was good no doubt about it just Archuleta picked better songs. Simon Cowell told the two finalists on Wednesday night that he too felt that both finalists had won, that he did not care which of them won, that both had tried hard and done a fantastic job doing so. Both finalists got a ford car. David Cook sung a new song written for the finale called A time of your life. It was chosen from many songs submitted. I think David Cook will do well maybe not as good as Cary Underwood but he will go far in his new career. The irony is He had no intention of competing in American Idol in the first place. He went with his brother who forced him to audition. He was a bar tender before Wednesday night. This is truly what American Idol is all about.

I am catching up on Grey’s anatomy this week too. Last week, Meredith is still seeing her psychologist to get over Derek. Derek is hoping Meredith makes a move cause he looks at her like he still loves her. But, he goes back to Rose. A woman comes in with a tumor who says she met the love of her life on a cruise but noone believes her. Derek (Mr. McDreamy) allows her to indulge in her fantasy cause he believes in love and feels sorry for the lady who is waiting for her love to come to the hospital before surgery. When he doesn’t show up in time, Derek tells her it was the tumor causes her to think the man existed who doesn’t. They operate on her. During the surgery, the man shows up but its too late. And Meredith and Derek and the woman’s sister all feel terrible cause the lady never wakes up out after her surgery. The chief is still trying to get back with his wife who is working at the hospital. He appoints George to be his aide to show his wife he has made arrangements to have more time outside of the hospital. So, George is now the Chief’s gofer. The 2 hour finale is this week.