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★ 7.6Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
- Aired
- 2011–2013
- Seasons
- 3 · 29 episodes
- Status
- Canceled
- Created by
- Neil Jordan
- Network
- Showtime
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
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Key facts
- Genre
- Historical drama
- Created by
- Neil Jordan
- Written by
- Neil Jordan, David Leland , Guy Burt
- Starring
- Jeremy Irons François Arnaud Holliday Grainger Joanne Whalley Lotte Verbeek David Oakes Sean Harris Ronan Vibert Peter Sullivan Simon McBurney Steven Berkoff Aidan Alexander Julian Bleach Thure Lindhardt Gina McKee Colm Feore
- Theme music composer
- Trevor Morris
- Countries of origin
- Canada Ireland Hungary
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 29 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Neil Jordan Jack Rapke Darryl Frank John Weber Sheila Hockin James Flynn David Leland (second season) Michael Hirst (first season)
- Production location
- Hungary
- Cinematography
- Paul Sarossy
- Running time
- 48–58 minutes
- Production companies
- Myriad Pictures Amblin Television ImageMovers Octagon Entertainment Take 5 Productions CTV Bell Media Showtime Networks
- Network
- Showtime (United States) Bravo (Canada) Sky Atlantic (United Kingdom & Ireland)
- Release
- April 3, 2011 ( 2011-04-03 ) –, June 16, 2013 ( 2013-06-16 )
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Encyclopedic overview
The Borgias is a historical drama television series created by Neil Jordan. It ran for three seasons from 2011 to 2013, when it was cancelled. Set in Renaissance-era Italy, the series follows the Borgia family in their scandalous ascension to the papacy. It stars Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI with François Arnaud as Cesare, Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia and David Oakes as Juan. Colm Feore also stars as Cardinal della Rovere.
The Borgias premiered on April 3, 2011 on Showtime in the US and Bravo! in Canada. That June it received its major television network premiere on the CTV Television Network. The second season followed on April 8, 2012 and the third on April 14, 2013. In June 2013, Showtime canceled the series, a season short of Jordan's planned four-season arc for the series. The cancellation was implied to be due to the expense of production, with plans for a two-hour wrap-up finale also scrapped. A fan campaign attempted to convince Showtime to revive the series, and in August it was announced that the series finale script would be released as an ebook, as a movie would be too expensive to produce.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Borgias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.