The Royals (TV series)

The Royals
Genre	Drama Soap opera
Created by	Mark Schwahn
Based on	Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray
Starring	Elizabeth Hurley William Moseley Alexandra Park Tom Austen Merritt Patterson Jake Maskall Oliver Milburn Vincent Regan Max Brown Genevieve Gaunt
Theme music composer	Siddhartha Khosla
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Mark Schwahn Brian Robbins Joe Davola Shauna Phelan
Producers	Annabelle Frost Sam Breckman Nick O'Hagen
Production locations	London, England
Cinematography	Nick Dance John Rhodes Robert McGregor
Editors	Dan Robinson Jeremy Strachan Brian Berdan
Running time	42 minutes (approx.)
Production companies	Mastermind Laboratories Varsity Pictures Lionsgate Television Universal Cable Productions
Original release
Network	E!
Release	March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15) – May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13)
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The Royals is an American primetime television drama soap opera^[1] that premiered on E! on March 15, 2015. Created by Mark Schwahn and starring Elizabeth Hurley, it is the network's first scripted series. It began as a loose adaptation of the 2011 Michelle Ray novel Falling for Hamlet.^[2] E! renewed it for a second season two months before its debut, and picked up a third season on January 5, 2016. E! renewed it for a fourth season on February 16, 2017, which began airing on March 11, 2018. E! cancelled the series after four seasons in August 2018. Lionsgate Television was shopping the series to other networks with discussions for a pick-up by sister network Pop, but on September 24, Lionsgate failed to find a new home for the series and it was officially cancelled.

Hurley stars as Queen Helena, a fictional contemporary queen consort of England, along with William Moseley and Alexandra Park as her twin children, Prince Liam and Princess Eleanor; Jake Maskall as Helena's brother-in-law and nemesis, the new King Cyrus; Tom Austen as Eleanor's bodyguard and blackmailer, Jasper Frost; and Oliver Milburn as Ted Pryce, the Royal Family's head of security. Season 1 also starred Vincent Regan as Helena's husband, King Simon, and Merritt Patterson as Liam's love interest, Ophelia Pryce.