CTV has signed on as a coproducer of The Borgias, the Canadian/European coproduction to shoot in Hungary before bowing on Showtime and the Canuck network next year, CTV confirmed Tuesday.

The Jeremy Irons-starring family saga set in Renaissance Italy will kick off with 10 episodes, recently commissioned by Showtime to replace The Tudors, which aired on CBC for four seasons.

Borgias will be the latest intricate U.S. cable drama to show up on CTV’s primetime schedule, after FX’s Nip/Tuck, Showtime’s Dexter, AMC’s Mad Men and HBO’s The Sopranos.

Toronto-based Take 5 Productions will coproduce the costume drama, which also has Colm Feore in talks to play Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere, the archrival to Irons’ Rodrigo Borgia.