Renewed: Hotel Portofino

Period melodrama Hotel Portofino has been renewed for a second season.

The second season set on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s, will returning cast Natascha McElhone, Mark Umbers Lily Fraser and Aussie Claude Scott-Mitchell as hotel guest Rose Drummond-Ward.

Season two will see the Ainsworth family relations at breaking point and the future of the hotel threatened, as Cecil does business with some unsavoury characters. Embracing themes of sexual and social liberation, the series will continue to deliver intriguing plotlines in a breathtaking Italian setting, while capturing the long-established literary tradition of idiosyncratic British ‘innocents abroad’, and revealing darker storylines set against the historical backdrop of the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy.

The second season will again be filmed in Portofino, Italy and along the Croatian coastline.

All episodes will be written by Matt Baker (Suspect) who created the original series. It will be directed by season one director Adam Wimpenny (Blackwood) and executive produced by Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino for Eagle Eye Drama in cooperation with the BetaFilm Group.

Hotel Portofino screens in Australia on Foxtel and Binge.