Elizabeth I is an Emmy-, Peabody- and Golden Globe Award-winning television miniseries about Queen Elizabeth I of England, consisting of two 2-hour episodes produced by Channel 4 (in association with HBO) in 2005. It stars Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons (in Part 1), and Hugh Dancy (in Part 2). The series aired in two 120-minute parts.

The series premiered in the United Kingdom on 29 September, 2005. It was first broadcast in the United States on HBO and in Canada on TMN, on April 22, 2006. It was broadcast in Hong Kong on ATV from April 7-28, 2006, on ABC Australia in two parts, on September 10 and 17, 2006, and TVNZ Television One in New Zealand on February 18 and 25, 2007.

The series was filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania, where the sets were constructed inside a sports stadium. The church of the meeting between Elizabeth and James VI of Scotland is St. Anne's Church in Vilnius, built in 1500.

As with Schiller's play Mary Stuart, a fictitious meeting between Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots is created although they never met in real life.

een Elizabeth I: If you can't read my silence, you're nothing.

een Elizabeth I: What in God's name do we have in common with the Dutch? bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Our religion, ma'am! een Elizabeth I: The Dutch have no religion, they have cheese.

een Elizabeth I: I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King - and of a King of England, too.

een Elizabeth I: A man can be a good Catholic and a good Englishman. bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Not at the same time, Ma'am.

lliam Cecil, Lord Burghley: The bloody and deceitful man shall not live out half his days.

ast lines] een Elizabeth I: Get me a priest, girl. I'm minded to die.

alking about Sir Francis Bacon] een Elizabeth I: Bacon, people who compliment me on my breasts, even in Latin, run the risk of being thought impertinent. [to Essex] We understand he's fond of the company of pretty youths. No wonder he's the Member for *Middlesex*!

een Elizabeth I: I lack the assurance of youth. I question everything.

r Francis Walsingham: I think the French make better acquaintances than friends.

lizabeth is visiting Mary Stuart secretly] ry Queen of Scots: You were not announced. een Elizabeth I: I am not here.

een Elizabeth I: Princes never cheat at cards. They simply have the rules altered to suit their needs.

lliam Cecil, Lord Burghley: For 19 years your majesty, this council has implored you to secure your succession by marriage. You have refused all suitors, but now... een Elizabeth I: I do not say I will not marry, Lord Burghley, the question before us is whom.

een Elizabeth I: Oh Robin, I'm set about by enemies and I know not who to trust. bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Well not France, I beg you.

bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: [to Elizabeth] What do you imagine Monsieur will do with me after he has your hand? bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: [Faking a French accent] Shall I be catholic? [Stronger French accent] Shall we all be catholic?

een Elizabeth I: [to Leicester] The only thing that will kiss in this affair are lawyers pens and lawyers papers.

een Elizabeth I: Great things hang on a kiss, Robin, when princes are involved...

lizabeth is going to visit Mary Stuart at Fotheringay Castle] een Elizabeth I: I understand she's grown very fat. Well, she's had nothing to do but eat and sleep. bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: And plot, Your Majesty.

een Elizabeth I: Come ladies, we are going to watch the Earl of Essex at his favourite pastime, which is trying to kill people.

igning Mary's death-warrant] een Elizabeth I: I want to hear no more of this... but someone is to give me an account of it when it is done.

een Elizabeth I: But why should we aid the Dutch? bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: The Dutch are Protestants, Your Majesty. een Elizabeth I: The Dutch don't have religion, they have cheese.

bert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Her favour changes with her moods, for she is a woman. But if you love her, love her constancy, for it is there.