Power! Sex! Decadence! That's the promise of Showtime's new series
The Borgias. The show seems to act as a spiritual successor to
The Tudors, but ups the ante by casting
Jeremy Irons as the infamous Cardinal Borgia, who became Pope Alexander IV in 1492. And
Neil Jordan acts as exec producer and directs the first two episodes. See the trailer for what Showtime bills as 'the original crime family,' after the ...