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39%
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Genre
  
Historical drama

Composer(s)
  
Jeff Russo

First episode date
  
19 July 2015

Network
  
Spike

7.2/10
IMDb

46%
Metacritic

Directed by
  
David von Ancken

Country of origin
  
United States

Final episode date
  
21 July 2015

Cast
  
Ben Kingsley

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Written by
  
Michael Vickerman Peter Paige Bradley Bredeweg

Starring
  
Ben Kingsley Avan Jogia Sibylla deen Alexander Siddig Kylie Bunbury Peter Gadiot Iddo Goldberg Nonso Anozie

Nominations
  
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Similar
  
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Hieroglyph, The Night Of, John Adams, The Ten Commandments

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Tut is a Canadian-American miniseries that premiered on U.S. cable network Spike on July 19, 2015. The three-part miniseries is based on the life of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.

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Development

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Tut was first announced by Spike in May 2014. The miniseries marks a return by the network towards scripted programming, and in particular, "event" series that cater to a "balanced" audience (in contrast to the remainder of Spike's programming at the time, which has typically skewed towards a male audience). Such event series have also been recently popular among other networks, such as History. Tut is produced by Muse Entertainment, best known for its other miniseries The Kennedys and The Pillars of the Earth.

Principal cast

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  • Avan Jogia as Tutankhamun, the Pharaoh of Egypt. He is a naive and handsome young man.
  • Ben Kingsley as Ay, the Grand Vizir.
  • Nonso Anozie as General Horemheb, Tutankhamun's savvy and power hungry military strategist.
  • Sibylla Deen as Ankhesenamun, the calculating and conniving sister-wife of Tutankhamun, who was forced to marry her own brother by their late father in order to preserve their monotheistic society.
  • Alexander Siddig as Amun, the High Priest, a major political figure who holds great influence in Tutankhamun's inner sanctum.
  • Kylie Bunbury as Suhad, a beautiful and endearing girl of Mitanni descent, who unknowingly saves Tutankhamun's life and develops a strong bond with the Pharaoh.
  • Peter Gadiot as Ka, King Tutankhamun's close confidant and seemingly loyal friend.
  • Iddo Goldberg as Lagus, an Egyptian soldier who develops a special bond with Tutankhamun.
  • Alistair Toovey as Nahkt, Ay's stepson.
  • Steve Toussaint as Tushratta, king of the Mitanni.

    • Supporting cast

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  • Kaizer Akhtar as young Tutankhamun.
  • Silas Carson as Pharaoh Akhenaten, the father of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun.
  • Steve Chusak as Paranefer, Akhenaten's servant.
  • Alexander Lyras as General Yuya.
  • Geoffrey Burton as Dagi, chief physician of the Egyptians.
  • Leon Lopez as Sete.
  • Daniela Lavender as Herit.
  • Ismail Kanater as the Priest of Sobek.

    • Reception

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    The series has garnered negative reviews. Brian Lowery of Variety writes, "King Tutankhamun left behind a treasure trove of trinkets, but his nickname is all that's really required to serve as the cornerstone for Tut, the miniseries that unearths the Boy King in order to turn his short life into historical melodrama. Featuring Ben Kingsley as Tut's scheming vizier, surrounded by young actors often photographed as if this were a shampoo commercial, there are modest pleasures relating to the various palace intrigues, but only marginal momentum to drag an audience across three nights, provided they know enough about history to realize the title character won't be available for a sequel."

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    Robert Bianco of USA Today exclaims, "Tut miniseries is overstuffed melodrama." While, Keith Uhlich of The Hollywood Reporter writes, "Spike network's three-night miniseries about the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun inspires no devotion."

    References

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