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When Hotel Portofino premiered on PBS in the summer of 2022, the series had already been greenlit for a second season; by the time Season 2 arrived stateside in the fall of 2023, a third season was not only greenlit, filming had already been completed for some time. Since production
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Given all that has transpired this season, I’m sure none of us thought the third season finale of Hotel Portofino would end on a happy note. But this finale episode, “Masquerades,” was still a tragic punch to the gut. Everything is leading up to the party Bella is having
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After five episodes of heartbreaking plot twists, star-crossed romances, devastating betrayals, and some genuinely fabulous vistas, Hotel Portofino will end its third season on the day before Labor Day, Sunday, September 1, 2024. As the hotel’s proprietor, Natascha McElhone’s Bella Ainsworth has spent the season starting her own
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For a show that on the surface seems so idyllic (The sun! The Italian coast! The fashion!), this third season of Hotel Portofino has been extraordinarily stressful. The season’s penultimate episode, entitled “Revelations,” took no prisoners. Are you sitting down? I think you should sit down. Let’s start
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Once again, Hotel Portofino Season 3 opens on Wall Street as what feels like the endless collapse of the stock market rolls into it's second week. (The market finally hit its nadir on November 13, 1929.) Cecil is making a trunk call (British for long distance) to his
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In a twist for a series set in the beautiful Italian seacoast, “Realizations” kicks off in New York. Cecil’s stockbroker (and future father-in-law) is admonishing his frantic staff that everyone needs to calm down. (Foreshadowing Take 1). Meanwhile, back from India, Lucian looks like he just got off an
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When PBS Passport launched in 2019, it only had two shows: Rick Steves' Europe and The Great British Baking Show. However, it wasn't long before a brand new anthology series brought new content to PBS members: Walter's Choice, which in 2023 rechristened itself back to
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The title of Hotel Portofino’s second episode of Season 3 is “Proposals,” which is appropriate because Marco seems to think that proposing to Bella will solve all their problems. He thinks it’s their chance to be together, but Bella knows things aren’t so simple for a woman
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Hotel Portofino returns for its third season this Sunday on PBS. Since the show’s inception, Mark Umbers’ Cecil has been up to no good. The impeccably dressed Cecil constantly schemes against his wife, Bella (Natascha McElhone), while getting himself into all sorts of trouble with his questionable get-rich-quick schemes.
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As viewers, we left Hotel Portofino and the glorious Italian Riviera in November 2023. Although less than a year has passed in our world, two years have gone by in the lives of the Ainsworth family. It is now 1929. Fascism is further on the rise, and we know the
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It’s time to return to the gorgeous Italian riveria, where the ambiance is exquisite; the food is delicious, the romances are starcrossed, and, except for the pesky rise of fascism, everything is a delight. That’s right, Hotel Portofino returns for a third season on Sunday, July 28, 2024,
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Hotel Portofino is PBS' Little Summer Series that Could. The Eagle Eye Drama, their first wholly original live-action period drama, initially debuted with little fanfare in the summer of 2022. As the lead-in for Endeavour's penultimate season, it was an awkward fit, the only non-mystery on the