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The Borgias

The Borgias

Series

  • Title:The Borgias
  • User score:
    7.6
  • First air date:2011-04-03
  • Genres:Drama, Crime
  • Number of seasons:3
  • Number of episodes:29
  • Status:Canceled
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.

List of Seasons

Season 1
S1 - Season 1
6.7
9 episodes

Air date: 2011-04-03

Pope Innocent VIII dies. Rodrigo Borgia wins election as Pope Alexander VI by bribing enough of the cardinals to vote for him in conclave. Alexander "packs" the College of Cardinals with 13 new members, including his son Cesare. He then tries to contract an alliance with the powerful family of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, one of his two original rivals for the Papacy. That alliance, ever fragile, breaks after Alexander's other rival, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (the future Pope Julius II), contracts his own alliance with the King of France for an invasion of Italy.

Season 2
S2 - Season 2
7.1
10 episodes

Air date: 2012-04-08

Having survived the French invasion with his Papacy intact (just barely), Alexander VI containues to advance his agenda. But the Sforza family continues to thwart him, leading him to make physical war upon them. Nor has Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere given up trying to rid the Vatican of Alexander. Having failed to depose the Pope legally, Cardinal della Rovere plots to assassinate him.

Season 3
S3 - Season 3
6.7
10 episodes

Air date: 2013-04-14

Alexander VI survives Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere's assassination attempt, because his daughter Lucrezia knows how to treat catarella poisoning. Alexander's war with the Sforza family continues and escalates. Alexander now plots to turn the Papacy into an explicitly hereditary office.

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Production Companies

Take 5 Productions
Showtime Networks
BellMedia
ImageMovers
Amblin Television
Myriad Pictures

Top Cast

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Rodrigo Borgia

François Arnaud

François Arnaud

Cesare Borgia

Holliday Grainger

Holliday Grainger

Lucrezia Borgia

Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley

Vanozza Cattaneo

Colm Feore

Colm Feore

Giuliano Della Rovere

Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan

Cardinal Ascanio Sforza

Sean Harris

Sean Harris

Micheletto

Thure Lindhardt

Thure Lindhardt

Rufio

Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff

Cardinal Versucci

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