Not surprisingly, Showtime has renewed “The Tudors” for a third season.

Showtime made the renewal announcement yesterday, with production expected to begin in June for a 2009 premiere.

Robert Greenblatt, head of Showtime Entertainment said, “‘The Tudors’ is now a fixture for us at Showtime, and we’re on our way to completing the entire saga of all six wives of Henry VIII. We are enormously proud of this show, the extraordinary cast, and the production team that recreates the grandeur of the Renaissance year in and year out.”

In the current season of “The Tudors,” Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is only on his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) — there are still four more wives, so I’d expect the series to carry on for additional seasons.