1997 in Italian television
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This is a list of Italian television related events from 1997.
Debuts[]
RAI[]
Variety[]
- Milano Roma – reality show; 5 seasons (one on Italia 1) and a restart in 2016. The program follows the travel by car of a couple of VIP from Milan to Rome; during the pilot, with Dario Fo and Ambra Angiolini, the playwright learns that he has won the Nobel prize.[1]
Serials[]
- Linda e il brigadiere (Linda and the brigadier) – detective comedy, by Gianfrancesco Lazotti and Alberto Simone; 3 seasons. Nino Manfredi plays a retired police brigadier who constantly interferes with the work and the private life of his daughter (Claudia Koll), she too police officer; in the third seasons, the Koll's character dies and her placein the life of the brigadier is taken by a young colored girl (Caterina Deregibus), his helper in a detective agency.[2]
Fininvest[]
Serials[]
- Doctor Giorgia – medical drama with Barbara D’Urso; 3 seasons (the third one realized after a 20 years break-up).[3]
- Due per tre (Two parents for three sons) – sitcom with Johnny Dorelli and Loretta Goggi; 3 seasons.
Variety[]
- Ciro il figlio di target (Ciro, the Target's son[4]) – satirical variety ideated by Gregorio Paolini, hosted by Gaia De Laurentis and Enrico Bertolino, with various comic actors, among which Luciana Litizzetto stands out; 5 seasons (with slightly different titles).[5]
News and educational[]
- Le iene (The hyenas) – infotainment show, Italian version of the Argentinian Caiga quien caiga, with various hosts, generally female (Simona Ventura, Alessia Marcuzzi, Ilary Blasy, Nadia Toffa); again on air. It's a mix of reportages and interviews, realized, often in a very provocative tone, by actors dressed as the Reservoir dogs’ characters. The program, despites the charges of sensationalism, is now again one of the most successful of the Italian television ad has generated several special editions and spin-off.[6]
- Fuego – magazine aimed to the young ones, hosted by Alessia Marcuzzi and others; 3 seasons.[7]
Television shows[]
Rai[]
Drama[]
- Vajont 9 ottobre 1963, orazione civile (Vajont 9 october 1963, civil oraction) – monologue by Marco Paolini (author and interpreted). The show is broadcast live on RAI 2 for the 34th anniversary of the Vajont disaster, in a theatre build on the dam’s place, and gets 3 million and a half of viewers.
- Padre Pio da Petralcina, by Alberto Rondalli, with Antonio Buil Pejo in the title role.[8]
- David by Robert Markowitz, with Nathaniel Parker in the title role[9] and Solomon by Roger Young, with Ben Cross in the title role;[10] seventh and eighth chapter of the LUX Vide Bible project.
- La piovra 8 – Lo scandalo (The scandal) by Giacomo Battiato, with Raoul Bova and Primo Reggiani; 2 episodes. Prequel of La piovra franchise, it describes the beginning of the Tano Cariddi’s criminal career in the Sicily of the Fifties.
Miniseries[]
- Mamma per caso (The accidental mum) – by Sergio Martino; romantic comedy in 4 episodes with Raffaella Carrà and Maurizio Crozza. A career anchorwoman, always a single, is forced to take care of her three nephews.[11]
Serials[]
- L’avvocato delle donne (The women’s lawyer) – legal drama with Mariangela Melato, from the book of the feminist lawyer Tina Lagostena Bassi.[12]
Variety[]
- Macao – by Gianni Boncompagni, hosted by Alba Parietti and, later, by the “virtual showman” Mr. P. The show, too experimental and nonsense for the audience, is suspended for low ratings; however, it reveals young comic actresses, as Sabina Impacciatore and Paola Cortellesi.[13]
- Pippo Chennedy Show – satirical variety hosted by Serena Dandini, with Corrado and Sabina Guzzanti and Neri Marcorè. The actors play now famous personalities of politics and entertainment (as Silvio Berlusconi, impersonated by Sabina Guzzanti), now imaginary characters, inspired by social phomenons (as the narcissistic TV anchorman Pippo Chennedy, impersonated by Corrado Guzzanti).[14]
Fininvest[]
Drama[]
- Fantaghirò 5 by Lamberto Bava, with Alessandra Martines and Remo Girone as antagonist, last chapter of the Fantaghirò franchise; 2 parts.[15]
References[]
- ^ "Milano-Roma". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Linda e il Brigadiere". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-24.
- ^ "Dottoressa Giò". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ The title hints to another Paolini’s show (Target) and to a controversial episode, when the actress Sandra Milo, on air, burst into tears calling the son Ciro because the fake news of an accident.
- ^ "Ciro, il figlio di Target". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Le Iene 1997/1998". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Fuego". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ "Padre Pio - S1997 - Padre Pio da Pietrelcina - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Davide". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Salomone". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Mamma per Caso". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "L'avvocato delle donne". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Macao". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Pippo Chennedy Show". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ Bava, Lamberto, Fantaghirò 5 - Il ritorno di Fantaghirò: Fantaghirò 5 - Il ritorno di Fantaghirò Video, retrieved 2021-02-23
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