Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

There were actors in this series, so I don't know why IMDb doesn't list the actors who played Giovanni di Medici(Peter Guiness) and his son Cosimo (Pip Torens) among others. I have to say most of the talking heads were extremely irritating especially Dale Kent whose idiotic allusions to the Medici as 'Godfathers' made me want to scream. Lauro Martines who wrote "April Blood" was credible and knowledgeable. The rest are just as irritating as Kent; they are so pompous. Someone should have told them that 'There is a limit to the profitable elaboration of the obvious'. The producers would have done better with captions. That said, 'The Medici' was a fair production, with good photography and could whet one's appetite for more research into the subject. There was a chant played at the death of Giovanni di Medici that I wish I could find, the only memorable music in this series.