Portobello

Premiere Date
Series Premiere:

Portobello - HBO Max

HBO Max

Series

2026

Biography

Drama

Crime

The stranger-than-fiction true story of beloved Italian TV host Enzo Tortora, who was falsely accused of involvement with a Neapolitan crime syndicate in the 1980s.

Matt Roush

Matt Roush says...

Amanda Knox is far from the only unfortunate victim of the Italian judicial system. In a drama colorfully recreating the 1980s, Portobello (the streamer’s first Italian-language original) tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Enzo Tortora (Fabrizio Gifuni), the celebrated host of Italian TV’s most popular variety show of the time, Portobello. When a resentful low-level mob flunkey implicates him in a crime family’s drug trafficking operation, the disbelieving Tortora becomes, in the public eye (and as HBO‘s tag line puts it) “guilty until proven innocent.”