William Shakespeare starts to make a name for himself in London while also trying to be a good husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Show Details:
Start date: May 2016
End date: Dec 2020
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 21 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
End date: Dec 2020
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 21 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
Credits:
- regulars:
- David Mitchell as Will Shakespeare
- Gemma Whelan as Kate
- Mark Heap as Sir Robert Greene
- Rob Rouse as Bottom
- Steve Speirs as Burbage
- Dominic Coleman as Condell
- Harry Enfield as John Shakespeare
- Helen Monks as Susannah
- Liza Tarbuck as Anne Hathaway
- Paula Wilcox as Mary Arden
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 09 May 16 | Star-Crossed Lovers |
| 2. | 1-2 | 16 May 16 | The Play's the Thing |
| 3. | 1-3 | 23 May 16 | The Apparel Proclaims the Man |
| 4. | 1-4 | 30 May 16 | Love is Not Love |
| 5. | 1-5 | 06 Jun 16 | What Bloody Man is That? |
| 6. | 1-6 | 13 Jun 16 | The Quality of Mercy |
| Season 2 | |||
| 7. | 2-1 | 11 Sep 17 | The Green-Eyed Monster |
| 8. | 2-2 | 11 Sep 17 | I Know Thee Not, Old Man |
| 9. | 2-3 | 11 Sep 17 | I Did Adore a Twinkling Star |
| 10. | 2-4 | 11 Sep 17 | Food of Love |
| 11. | 2-5 | 11 Sep 17 | Beware My Sting! |
| 12. | 2-6 | 11 Sep 17 | Sweet Sorrow |
| Season 3 | |||
| 13. | 3-1 | 29 Aug 18 | Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be! |
| 14. | 3-2 | 05 Sep 18 | Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death |
| 15. | 3-3 | 12 Sep 18 | If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? |
| 16. | 3-4 | 19 Sep 18 | Sigh No More |
| 17. | 3-5 | 26 Sep 18 | The Most Unkindest Cut of All |
| 18. | 3-6 | 03 Oct 18 | Go On and I Will Follow |
| Specials | |||
| S02. | 2-0 | 25 Dec 17 | A Christmas Crow (35 min) |
| S03. | 3-0 | 25 Dec 18 | A Crow Christmas Carol (40 min) |
| S03. | 3-0 | 21 Dec 20 | Lockdown Christmas 1603 |