HOTEL PORTOFINO

BRITBOX SERIES

Downton Abbey meets Enchanted April in this new six-part drama in which romance, politics and crime come together in a heady mix. Natascha McElhone stars as Bella Ainsworth, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist who is the co-proprietor of the newly opened Hotel Portofino on the Italian Riviera in 1926. It’s a quintessentially British hotel for upper-class travellers but Bella quickly finds that well-to-do guests can be troublesome, as can the locals and, indeed, her own family. Filmed on the Riviera and in

Croatia, this offers undemanding, sundrenched escapism and also stars Anna Chancellor (inset, right) and Lily Frazer (right, centre).

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