Courtesy of an advert for America's Showtime channel on the back of the latest New Yorker, we learn that in that authoritative historical drama series The Tudors, "Jonathan Rhys Meyers is King Henry 8". It's unclear if that's how he'll be addressed by courtiers in the show's next season, but already wags have wondered how it is that US viewers are assumed to be baffled by roman numerals, when the Super Bowl uses them – the match won by the New Orleans Saints in February was XLIV – and is invariably the year's most-watched broadcast.
