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You know the story of their legendary rise and fall, but you’ve never seen it unfold like this. The three-part docuseries The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family tells the tale of the cunning 16th century clan — whose beautiful, ambitious daughter Anne famously became King Henry VIII’s second wife and was beheaded for treason — via in-depth interviews with historians and lush dramatizations, many filmed at the Boleyns’ ancestral home, Hever Castle. “We were keen to make everything fresh and vibrant, for them to feel like living, breathing people,” says Cate Hall, leader of development for the BBC’s documentary unit. “We looked at every surviving letter that chronicled what these people thought and felt. We wanted to give them back the words that they said.” Tonight, scheming patriarch Thomas (Max Dowler) starts his ascent and grooms his children to enter the court’s inner circle. The eldest, married Mary (Elizabeth McCafferty...