{"id":779,"date":"2024-07-25T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:26:24","slug":"dream-of-italy-under-the-tuscan-sun-special-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Dream of Italy &#8211; Under the Tuscan Sun special (PBS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Frances-Mayes-for-Under-the-Tuscan-Sun-interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-780\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Frances-Mayes-for-Under-the-Tuscan-Sun-interview.jpg 960w, http:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Frances-Mayes-for-Under-the-Tuscan-Sun-interview-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 960px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Kathy McCabe with Frances Mayes in front of Bramasole<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Following the huge success of DREAM OF ITALY, <strong>PBS <\/strong>commissioned a one-hour special to be filmed in <strong>Cortona <\/strong>with <strong>Frances Mayes<\/strong>, author of <strong>Under the Tuscan Sun<\/strong>. Kathy met with Frances at the now famous <strong>Bramasole<\/strong>, the house that was the beating heart of her best-selling book. As <strong>Location Manager <\/strong>and<strong> Fixer, Fabio Di Segni<\/strong> helped Presenter\/Producer <strong>Kathy McCabe<\/strong> identify <strong>story ideas, <\/strong>great <strong>filming locations<\/strong> and interesting <strong>contributors<\/strong>. <strong>ITALYfixer<\/strong> hired <strong>local television crew<\/strong> and organized the <strong>logistics of the shoot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">You can see a trailer here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GqtSl2uakVU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GqtSl2uakVU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the huge success of DREAM OF ITALY, PBS commissioned a one-hour special to be filmed in Cortona with Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun. Kathy met with Frances at the now famous Bramasole, the house that was the beating heart of her best-selling book. As Location Manager and Fixer, Fabio Di Segni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-our-work","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}