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Disney Plus has today announced the release date for its new murder-mystery series, Shardlake<\/a>.<\/p>\n Based in Tudor England, the thrilling show is based on CJ Sansom\u2019s novels<\/a>, and is centred around lawyer Matthew Shardlake \u2013 who is tasked with investigating a murder at the instruction of Thomas Cromwell.<\/p>\n Announcing the exciting news today were cast members Arthur Hughes (Matthew Shardlake) and Anthony Boyle (Jack Barak), confirming the series would be available to stream on Wednesday 1st May <\/strong>on Disney Plus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The trailer for the mystery series was released earlier this year, and saw Boyle and Hughes\u2019s characters attempt to investigate the murder, with plenty of obstacles thrown into their path.<\/p>\n As Shardlake and Barak begin their mission, they are met with hostility, suspicion and paranoia by the monks who fear for their future \u2013 and stop at nothing to preserve their order.<\/p> The series also stars Sean Bean as Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the cast is Babou Ceesay as Abbot Fabian, Paul Kaye as Brother Jerome, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis as Alice Fewterer, Peter Firth as Norfolk, Matthew Steer as Goodhap, Brian Vernel as Brother Mortimus, Irfan Shamji as Brother Guy, David Pearse as Brother Edwig, Miles Barrow as Brother Gabriel, Mike Noble as Bugge and Kimberley Nixon as Joan.<\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d612\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n Shardlake premieres on Disney Plus on Wednesday 1st May. You can sign up to Disney Plus for \u00a37.99 a month or \u00a379.90 a year<\/a> now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.\u00a0For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The four-part series will be available to watch soon! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49307,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/shardlake-confirms-release-date-for-tudor-mystery-adaptation-on-disney-plus-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The four-part series will be available to watch soon!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/49306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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