The BBC is launching a new drama series on the life of Queen Elizabeth I next Monday Sunday. Like the 1998 film (starring Cate Blanchett and Joseph Fiennes), the series starts with Elizabeth’s perilous position during the reign of her sister, Queen Mary. I don’t particularly know any of the actors (except for Tara Fitzgerald, who was in The Woman in White); and the actress playing the leading roll admits that she didn’t particularly know who Queen Elizabeth was, but I’m going to watch anyway.