article_snippet.sent: Catholic bishops in America have denounced Wolf Hall as a ‘prejudice-laden presentation of the past’ as the acclaimed BBC drama was broadcast in the U.S. for the first time.
article_snippet.sent: Catholic bishops in America have slammed Wolf Hall, starring Damian Lewis, after it was broadcast for the first time .
article_snippet.sent: A Washington Post reviewer warned the distortion of historical facts in Wolf Hall pointed to 'ideological bias' US media were generally looking forward to the historical drama being shows on Masterpiece PBS as a 'great British import', with Homeland star Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII and Claire Foy playing Anne Boleyn .
article_snippet.sent: Gregory Wolfe said that the adaptation of Hilary Mantel's book 'could obscure important lessons' The criticism from the U.S. Catholic Church follows that of Mark Davies and Mark O’Toole, the Catholic Bishops of Shrewsbury and Plymouth, who said Wolf Hall was guilty of ‘anti-Catholic’ depictions of More, played by Anton Lesser, and for anti-Catholic whitewashing of Cromwell, the hero of the drama, played by Mark Rylance.
article_snippet.sent: Wolf Hall was BBC2’s most popular drama since 2002 , gaining an average of 4.4million viewers during its six-week run.