PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON HOTEL PORTOFINO PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON 3 WHICH ARRIVES THIS SUMMER

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THIRD SEASON IS COMING THIS SUMMER

Hotel Portofino opens this summer again

I must admit I am surprised this one got pass the first season, but it seems HOTEL PORTOFINO is returning for the third one this summer Sunday July 28th on PBS. As you know, the series takes place in the late 1920s following the Ainsworth family who move from England to the Italian coastal city of Portofino to open an upscale hotel. The story is set after World War I when the world is in a global post-war upheaval. The charming Italian seaside town with its warm climate and enchanting culture and townspeople provides the perfect respite for the elite British traveler. The main characters are Bella (Natascha McElhone) and her estranged husband Cecil (Mark Umbers) together with their son Lucian (Oliver Dench), his wife Rose (Claude Scott-Mitchell) and sister Alice (Olivia Morris). If I got it right, six episode season 3 is already available in UK on BritBox before arriving to ITV later this year in linear viewing, and also on Sky Italia and Foxtel in Australia.

  IN THE THIRD SEASON OF THE SERIES

Bella is preparing for her father and sister’s arrival but is thrown off when Cecil appears requesting a divorce. Over the weeks, Bella must decide her future as well as avoid fascist leader Danioni. But with the Wall Street stock market crash, things get worse, and Bella and Cecil lose everything. Dark secrets are exposed during another adventure in this sun-soaked 1920s Italian drama. Louisa Binder returns as Constance March, Lucian's true love interest and the nanny of his sister's daughter, Pasquale Esposito as Signor Danioni, Lily Frazer as American singer and actor Claudine Pascal, who has become Bella's best friend, and Daniele Pecci as the rich Count Albani, who is Bella's advisor and Alice's love interest. Check out the third season trailer below:

 

Back again in the Italian seaside town of Portofino 🍷#HotelPortofino, Thursday 25 April at 8.30pm AEST on Showcase, or Watch On Demand on #Foxtel pic.twitter.com/fXcx2t6fN6

— Foxtel (@Foxtel) April 21, 2024

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON HOTEL PORTOFINO PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON TWO WHICH IS BACK THIS AUTUMN!

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SECOND SEASON BACK OCTOBER

Hotel is open again this October on PBS

Back in January your trusted spy told you that Australian Foxtel and Binge streamers will stream the second season of HOTEL PORTOFINO period set drama earlier than the rest of the world and it really did air there in February and also on Sky in Italy and possibly some other countries, but later this year it is finally coming to PBS in USA and also on their Masterpiece channel on Prime Video, October 15th to be exact. It will air on Sunday nights together with World on Fire series returning season. In UK it should air sometime on ITV but given that they only aired the first season this spring, God only knows when will the six part second season arrive to poor old Brits. In Germany it will be soon on Magenta TV.

 

SET ON THE ITALIAN RIVIERA

 in the 1920s, HOTEL PORTOFINO tells the story of the Ainsworth family that has relocated to Italy to set up a quintessentially British hotel in the beautiful coastal town of Portofino. Amidst the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, season two will see Ainsworth family relations reach breaking point and the future of the hotel threatened.New faces and old — some more welcome than others — stir up adventure, romance and drama at the Hotel Portofino. With Cecil eyeing control of the Hotel, Nish moving against Mussolini’s Fascists and Rose and Lucian’s marriage growing more precarious, Bella will have more than tight budgets and grand galas to worry about.

 

WHO'S BACK IN THE HOTEL?

Embracing themes of sexual and social liberation, season two will see Natascha McElhone reprise her role as owner of Hotel Portofino and family matriarch, Bella Ainsworth. Mark Umbers plays her charming but dangerous aristocratic husband, Cecil, Oliver Dench is their handsome son Lucian, Daniele Pecci as the dashing count Albani, and Lily Fraser will return as the hotel’s most famous guest singer-turned-movie star, Claudine Pascal. Assad Zaman is back as Lucian's best friend, the Hindi gay student of medicine. Roby Schinasi has joined the cast as the handsome Victor Michel. Check out the trailer below:

 

HOTEL PORTOFINO OPENS ITS ITALIAN RIVIERA DOORS AGAIN IN THE SECOND SEASON TRAILER FOR THE PERIOD SET SERIES! NICHOLAS GALITZINE JOINS JULIANNE MOORE IN MARY & GEORGE PERIOD SET SERIES

 NICHOLAS GALITZINE JOINS 

JULIANNE MOORE IN MARY & GEORGE COSTUME DRAMA

After announcing Julianne Moore as the lead star of their new costume series MARY AND GEORGE, Sky and AMC have cast Nicholas Galitzine as her son George. In the eight part series she will play Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, who in 17th century England molded her beautiful son, George (Galitzine), to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become one of the richest, most titled and influential mother and sons England had ever seen. 

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SECOND SEASON TRAILER!

The second season returns this February

Well, it comes sooner than I expected, but Australian Foxtel has released today a trailer for the second season of HOTEL PORTOFINO period set drama which hits the streamer February 12th and will air on ITV February 3rd and later this year on PBS in USA. Set on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s, HOTEL PORTOFINO tells the story of the Ainsworth family that has relocated to Italy to set up a quintessentially British hotel in the beautiful town of Portofino. Amidst the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, season two will see Ainsworth family relations reach breaking point and the future of the hotel threatened. Embracing themes of sexual and social liberation, season two will see Natascha McElhone reprise her role as owner of Hotel Portofino and family matriarch, Bella Ainsworth. Mark Umbers plays her charming but dangerous aristocratic husband, Cecil, Oliver Dench is their handsome son Lucian, Daniele Pecci as the dashing count Albani, and Lily Fraser will return as the hotel’s most famous guest singer-turned-movie star, Claudine Pascal. Roby Schinasi has joined the cast as the handsome Victor Michel.

Let the good times roll. #HotelPortofino Season 2 premieres February 12 on Foxtel. pic.twitter.com/pTllDpr4oE

— Foxtel (@Foxtel) January 12, 2023

CAST SET FOR CW'S SPACE ACADEMY SET SF SERIES PANDORA WITH PRISCILLA QUINTANA, OLIVER DENCH, NOAH HUNTLEY!

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ITS SPACE ACADEMY STUDENTS

Priscilla Quintana is Pandora!

She certainly is a very pretty face indeed: CW has revealed that Priscilla Quintana will lead their new science fiction series PANDORA which is currently shooting in Bulgaria for a summer release. Cast will also include Oliver Dench (as an intelligent and mysterious teacher assistant who is a secret operative), Raechelle Bano (as a very loquacious, free spirited, purple haired clone), John Harlan Kim (as a brilliant medical student who is smart, laconic and charming as hell), Ben Radcliffe (as the son of the Zatarian ambassador, a humanoid alien species and former adversary of the Earth Confederacy, who must confront prejudice and hatred at the

Oliver Dench will be teacher's assistant

Academy), Banita Sandhu (as a brilliant woman with cybernetic implants who is able to process information more quickly), Martin Bobb Semple (as a man with telepathic powers) and Noah Huntley (as Jax’s Uncle and the Academy’s most respected and terrifying teacher)!

THE STORY OF PANDORA 
science fiction series will be set in the year 2199, revolving around Jax (also known as Pandora), played by Priscilla Quintana, a resourceful young woman who has lost everything after the death of her parents but finds a new life at Earth’s Space Training

Raechelle Bano and Ben Radcliffe have also joined the Academy

Academy where she and her friends learn to defend the Galaxy from threats, both alien and human. When secrets about the nature of her own identity

Banita Sandhu, Martin Bobb Semple and Noah Huntley

begin to surface, she must uncover the truth, and whether she will be humanity’s saviour or the instrument of its destruction.