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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HOTEL PORTOFINO: Actress Natascha McElhone on Season 3 of the PBS drama – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/14/2024
HOTEL PORTOFINO key art | ©2024 PBS

HOTEL PORTOFINO is now in its third season Sunday nights on PBS’s MASTERPIECE THEATRE. Created by Matt Baker, HOTEL PORTOFINO is set in 1920s Italy at the title establishment. The hotel is managed by Englishwoman Bella Ainsworth, played by Natascha McElhone, although it technically belongs to her husband Cecil (Mark Umbers). Bella and Cecil have been married for thirty years, have two living children and one deceased. Bella pours her heart and soul into the hotel; Cecil sees it only as a source of income. By Season 3, Bella would like nothing more than to get Cecil out of her […]Read On »


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HOTEL PORTOFINO: Actor Mark Umbers on Season 3 of the hit UK series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/28/2024
HOTEL PORTOFINO key art | ©2024 PBS

The third season of HOTEL PORTOFINO premieres on PBS’s MASTERPIECE THEATRE on Sunday, July 28. Produced in partnership with the U.K.’s ITV and created by Matt Baker, HOTEL PORTOFINO chronicles the ups and downs of the English Ainsworth family in 1920s Italy. Fascism is on the rise, but the Ainsworths have more immediate troubles. Chief among these is the rift between hotel manager Bella Ainsworth, played by Natascha McElhone, and her husband Cecil Ainsworth, played by Mark Umbers. Cecil is of British nobility by birth – his title is Viscount Heddon – but his behavior is distinctly ignoble. He cheats […]Read On »


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DESIGNATED SURVIVOR: Creator David Guggenheim on new Kiefer Sutherland series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/28/2016
Kiefer Sutherland in DESIGNATED SURVIVOR - Season 1 | ©2016 ABC/Bob D’Amico

In ABC’s new Wednesday-night drama DESIGNATED SURVIVOR, Kiefer Sutherland stars as Tom Kirkman, a low-level government department head who suddenly finds himself President of the United States when a State of the Union address is lethally attacked by persons unknown. David Guggenheim, who wrote the films SAFE HOUSE and STOLEN, is the creator of DESIGNATED SURVIVOR. There really is such a status, a government member who is kept separate from events in case of an unlikely disaster that takes out the U.S. President, Vice-President and Speaker of the House. The series also deals with Tom’s relationship with his wife, played […]Read On »


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Interview: Damian Lewis examines HOMELAND Season 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/10/2013
Damian Lewis in HOMELAND - Season 3 | ©2013 Showtime/Kent Smith

British actor Damian Lewis won an Emmy for his first season as prisoner-of-war-turned-terrorist/Congressional candidate Nicholas Brody in Showtime’s CIA thriller HOMELAND, which airs Sundays at 9 PM. Lewis was nominated again for his second year on HOMELAND, when Congressman Brody is proved to be a terrorist by CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes, who won Emmys for both seasons), then is turned into a double agent by the CIA, then resumes his affair with the very conflicted Carrie, then is apparently framed for blowing up the CIA and ends the second season on the run. Now it’s Season 3. Carrie […]Read On »


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Interview: David Duchovny chats CALIFORNICATION Season 6

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/03/2013
David Duchovny in CALIFORNICATION - Season 6 | ©2013 Showtime/David M. Russell

David Duchovny is now in his sixth season of playing troubled, womanizing writer Hank Moody on Showtime’s dark comedy CALIFORNICATION, which runs Sundays at 10:30 PM. The New York-born, Yale-educated actor made a mark on RED SHOE DIARIES, TWIN PEAKS and the feature film KALIFORNIA, but – CALIFORNICATION aside – Duchovny is arguably best known for playing paranormally inclined FBI agent Fox Mulder on the TV series THE X-FILES from 1993 through 2002 and two X-FILES feature films. His new theatrical feature PHANTOM, a submarine thriller with Ed Harris, is about to be released. At a party thrown by CBS […]Read On »


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