HBO joins BBC as co-producer on Ava Pickett's eight-part Tudor drama '1536'

HBO has boarded the BBC's eight-part drama '1536' as co-producer, per Deadline (5 August 2026). Ava Pickett writes and showruns; Molly Manners ('One Day') directs. Drama Republic produces. The series follows three women in an Essex village when Henry VIII arrests Anne Boleyn. No broadcast date is set.