Ask the Fans: ‘Reign’ Showrunner Laurie McCarthy Wants Your Answers to These 6 Questions

Yahoo TV Staff
Adelaide Kane as Mary, Queen of Scots and Stewart Arnott as The Earl<br>(Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/The CW)
Adelaide Kane as Mary, Queen of Scots and Stewart Arnott as The Earl
(Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/The CW)

TV fans aren’t the only ones who have burning questions. In our series Ask the Fans, Yahoo TV flips the script and finds out what questions producers have always wanted to pose to their viewers.

Next up, Laurie McCarthy, showrunner of The CW’s Reign, which begins its fourth and final season Feb. 10. Read her six questions, then either reply in the comments section below, or email your thoughts to AskTheFans@yahoo.com by Feb. 6. We’ll report the most popular and insightful answers back to McCarthy, then post her response on Feb. 10.

From left: Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Kane, Toby Regbo, and executive producer Laurie McCarthy in 2013 (Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
From left: Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Kane, Toby Regbo, and executive producer Laurie McCarthy in 2013 (Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Laurie McCarthy asks the fans:

1. What did you know about the real Mary Stuart/Mary Queen of Scots before you watched Reign? Were you prepared for what her efforts to hold onto power would cost her?

2. Did you love or hate Catherine de Medici? Did you love-to-hate her? If you hated her and then loved her, when did you start to love her?

3. Did you know, when you started watching the show, that Francis would die? Did you learn that he would die at a young age and early in his marriage to Mary from the show itself (when his death was foretold or you read about it in the press) or from history? And once Francis died, was it hard to forgive the show for killing the character?

4. Would you want to live in the 16th Century? If so, would you want to be a royal (where you are a target but are also wildly privileged)? If not a royal, what strata of society would you want to live in?

5. Would you ever want to be a queen or a king, a president or prime minister? If you had a nation’s power in your hand, would you rather rise to power on your own merits or be handed it unquestioningly?

6. How would you describe the tone of the show? Do you think it’s more romance or plot/events driven? Would you say there was intentional comedy in it? What drew you to the show?

Reign‘s final season premieres Feb. 10 at 9 p.m. on The CW.

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