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 ...

TELEVISION REVIEW: Showtime’s new costume drama is a winning recipe of sex and swordplay — shot beautifully with beautiful people. By Tim Goodman Jeremy Irons is the deviant head of the Borgia family.

“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 ...

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 ...

I was suffering from acute archive fever when we booked our flights to Bologna. I had spent most of the year hunched over a computer or in libraries, my head buried in a hundred history books while ...