Spot on. Awful! I can hardly watch anything BBC these days. But am very much enjoying this Spanish historical romp about Isabel 1st and Ferdinand 2nd: http://www.sky.com/tv/show/isabel http://www.sky.com/tv/show/isabel
It's a Spanish produced historical fiction television series filmed in Spain, directed by Jordi Frades and produced for national broadcaster Televisión Española. Can you get it? In our household we are 16th century all-things-Tudor fans (save "The Tudors" LOL). Henry VIII's wife Catherine of Aragon was Isabel 1's daughter, so it gives a different perspective (relative to our neck of the woods). Perhaps we need her ilk to be reborn: "She reorganized the governmental system, brought the crime rate to the lowest it had been in years, and unburdened the kingdom of the enormous debt her brother had left behind" [Wiki} (Delivered under NEO sufferance & torture)
