The historical drama from Neil Jordan stars Jeremy Irons as a devious Spanish cardinal and patriarch of the Borgia family. By Tim Goodman The tagline for the new Showtime historical drama The Borgias ...

“The Tudors” is dead, but its history-as-soap-opera style lives on with two new series debuting this weekend: Starz’s “Camelot” (Friday at 10 p.m.) and Showtime’s “The Borgias” (Sunday at 9 p.m.).

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The tagline for the new Showtime historical drama "The Borgias" doesn't mask any larger intent: "Sex. Power. Murder. Amen." Okay, so you know what you're getting ...

"Put down your hot dogs and put on your helmets!" the first assistant director barks, an order relayed in Hungarian to two hundred lunching extras who have grabbed a very quick break on the set of the ...

Television drama used to sex up history - but a new big-budget series about the Borgias, starring Jeremy Irons, doesn’t need to embellish reality, says William Langley Affecting that familiar air of ...

The Borgias: The Hidden History, by G. J. Meyer (Bantam, 478 pages, $35 hardcover, $16.99 Kindle) - Popular historian G. J. Meyer’s account of the notorious Italian Renaissance family isn’t so much a ...