WHAT’S WORTH WATCHING WEEK 1
PICK OF THE WEEK!
My Big Italian Adventure
SERIES PREMIERE
Friday, Oct. 30, 9/8c, HGTV
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL THESE days? Fuhgeddaboudit. Happily, this new series, filmed in 2019, whisks wannabe tourists to the’ Lorraine Bracco (above) as a companion. The actress got an offer she couldn’t refuse, scoring a major fixer-upper in the hilltop town of Sambuca…for a single Euro (about $1.10 in U.S. currency)! “When Lorraine called us saying she wanted to [do this], we jumped on board to join her from beginning to end,” says Loren Ruch, HGTV’s senior VP of programming and development. Over a nine-month shoot, “we watched her meet the mayor, went house hunting with her and followed the entire design and renovation process.” Let’s break down this huge undertaking.
