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Travel back to the 1920s and the breathtakingly beautiful Italian seaside town of Portofino for a second season of “Hotel Portofino.”
Natascha McElhone (“Californication,” “The Crown”) stars as Bella Ainsworth who is still devoting all her energy into making Hotel Portofino a success. Having overcome earlier blackmailing threats from a local politician, the hotel is finally starting to prosper. Aside from her hotel duties, Bella is also concerned for her children – Lucian, whose marriage to Rose might be facing trouble, and Alice, who needs a break from her responsibilities at the hotel. Bella’s husband, Cecil, has not been seen since returning to England at the end of the previous summer. With Cecil’s unannounced return to Portofino, the messy private lives of her children, and an imminent visit from a travel guide that could make or break the hotel’s future, Bella has her work cut out to keep all the plates spinning.
Additional returning cast members include Mark Umbers (“Home Fires”), Oliver Dench (“Pandora”), Olivia Morris (“RRR”), Assad Zaman (“Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire”), Elizabeth Carling, Louisa Binder, Carolina Gonnelli, Claude Scott-Michael, Louis Healy, Pasquale Esposito, Rocco Fasano, Daniele Pecci, Lily Frazer and Lucy Akhurst.
“Hotel Portofino” will premiere at 7 p.m. Sunday, October 15 on Panhandle PBS. The series will also be available for streaming on the PBS App and PBS.org.
