"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.).

As it heads into the final episode of its first season Sunday, already renewed for Season 2, The Borgias has indeed done something new under the sun. It's doubtful that a more lavishly produced, ...

While Mario Puzo is best known as author of The Godfather and other contemporary Mafia novels, history was one of his lifelong passions, and over the years, one of his side projects was working on a ...