NIGELLA Lawson has made her long-awaited comeback to the television after two years with her new show focused on delicious home cooking. Food we can all bring to our own tables, vibrant and varied yet always relaxed.
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Nigella: At My Table Nigella Lawson is back with a new series called: Nigella: At My Table and is packed with simple recipes full of complex flavour.Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat Nigella shares the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen and reveals the inspiration behind many of her recipes.We all feel we had an extraordinary cast in Season 1, and we want to do as well in Season 2. But it will not get to the end of Lorenzo’s life there’s still a lot more that we could explore in Season 3.Ĭan you tell me anything about casting of Season 2? In Italy everyone is wondering who will play Lorenzo. I think Season 2 will have an ending and feel like a complete eight-hour journey. So you are saying it’s very likely that there is going to be a third season, though it has not been green-lit yet? Now we are going to jump forward in time about 20 years for Season 2 to tell the story of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and we’re actually anticipating that that will take two seasons. But ultimately decided to begin Season 1 with Giovanni and his son Cosimo. For a time we decided to begin with Lorenzo the Magnificent because in many ways his life represents the pinnacle of Medici achievement: the High Renaissance, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botticelli. When we first tackled this, we weren’t really sure where to begin the saga of the Medici. I know a second series has been commissioned. They are not quite ready, but they are imminent. There are announcements coming very, very soon for the U.K. Its been sold in more than 30 territories all over the world, including Australia, Latin America, and Japan. It has rolled out in France on SFR Play, and it’s also rolled out in Spain on Telefonica. Where does ‘Medici’ go from here? Will it be airing in the U.K.
But I actually have two passports, an American and an Italian passport! I was raised in America and I have Hollywood storytelling values and training, but there’s an awful lot of Italian talent in this show. The writers, it’s true, were American and British. Well, the production company, virtually the entire crew, and much of the cast was Italian.
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When the show debuted, Andrea Scrosati, who is in charge of content for Sky in Italy – a rival to Rai – tweeted that this was a success for the entire Italian TV industry, even though it’s not a totally Italian show. The only note we got was: “Don’t seem like you have some agenda don’t seem like you are out to paint somebody as black or white.” When it came to editorial things like showing corruption or sex or violence, they were completely open to it. He said we would shoot in all the real locations in Florence and Tuscany, that I would get the best production designer, the best costume designer, and so on. The first time I met Luca Bernabei, he said that Italy was changing and that he wanted to do a series that showed the face of the new Italy and what Italy was capable of doing. Did you have to push boundaries with them? Italian TV critic Aldo Grasso has pointed out that the Vatican-set sex, including gay sex, and corruption scenes are unusual for Lux Vide, a company known to be close to the Vatican. It was a fresh approach to a story that I think a lot of Italians think they know, but probably don’t know as well as they imagine. I think because we were irreverent, and we didn’t assume interest in the subject matter, we were able to reach such a big audience in Italy. We thought that was a pretty compelling way into story that could seem very historical and dry. So we took a pretty unconventional approach and framed the whole thing as sort of a “what if” murder mystery that begins with the murder of Giovanni de’ Medici. What I said to my partners at Lux Vide, and to Rai, was that I wanted to make a series for people who don’t like historical dramas. Was this something you were concerned about? The ratings results for the first series of “Medici” in Italy are impressive, especially because of potential aversion by Italian audiences to non-Italians handling their history. “Medici” marks the first historical skein handled by Spotnitz (“The X- Files”), who spoke to Variety about the challenge of making it click with audiences in the land in which the medieval drama is set.
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