HOTEL PORTOFINO: Creator and writer Matt Baker on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/24/2024
HOTEL PORTOFINO creator Matt Baker | ©2024 Grainge Photography

In Season 3 of HOTEL PORTOFINO, airing Sunday nights on PBS, it is 1929. Fascism is rising in Europe and the stock market crash is looming. Both of these factors will impact Bella Ainsworth (Natascha McElhone) and her estranged husband Cecil (Mark Umbers), Britons who own the title establishment on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Matt Baker, originally from Yorkshire, England, created HOTEL PORTOFINO and has written all the episodes. Baker was also the primary writer on the series BEFORE WE DIE, and done scripts for the series SUSPECT and PROFESSOR T, and the upcoming PATIENCE. He gets on a Zoom call […]Read On »


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HOWARDS END: Matthew Macfadyen chats new miniseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/07/2018
Matthew Macfadyen is Henry Wilcox in HOWARD'S END - Miniseries| ©2018 Starz

E.M. Forster’s novel HOWARDS END was adapted as a feature film in 1992, winning Oscars for lead actress Emma Thompson, the screenplay adaptation by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and art direction. The story, set in 1910 England, deals with gender and class prejudices. Now Starz is bringing forth a four-part miniseries adaptation of HOWARDS END, which premieres Sunday, April 8. Matthew Macfadyen (pronounced, he explains, Mac-fad-ee-an) stars as Henry Wilcox, a wealthy man who falls in love with independent-minded Margaret Schlegel, played by Hayley Atwell, at the same time Margaret’s sister Helen (Philippa Coulthard) develops feelings for working-class activist Leonard Bast […]Read On »


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