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Italian television Television in Italy was introduced in 1939, when the first experimental broadcasts began. However, this lasted for a very short time: when fascist Italy entered World War II in 1940 all transmissions were interrupted, and were resumed in earnest ...

related events from 2012.

Events

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Francesca Michielin Francesca Michielin (, ; born 25 February 1995) is an Italian singer and songwriter. She rose to fame after winning the fifth season of the Italian talent show ''X Factor''. Her first single, " Distratto", debuted atop the Italian FIMI Top Digi ...

wins the fifth season of ''

X Factor ''The X Factor'' is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment. It originated in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for ''Pop Idol'' (2001–2003 ...

''. *10 March – 21-year-old acro pole flag man Stefano Scarpa wins the third season of ''

Italia's Got Talent ''Italia's Got Talent'' is the Italian version of the international ''Got Talent'' series. The pilot episode was aired on 12 December 2009 on Canale 5 and it was seen by 5.3 million people. After this episode, Mediaset decided to hold on this sho ...

''. *17 March – Singer and actor

Andrés Gil Andrés Gil (born 27 January 1990 in San Isidro) is an Argentine actor, model, dancer and media personality. Biography In January 2012 Gil took part - with Bobo Vieri, Alex Belli, Anna Tatangelo, Ria Antoniou, Ariadna Romero and other contesta ...

and his partner Anastasia Kuzmina win the eighth season of ''Ballando con le stelle''. *1 April – Sabrina Mbarek wins the twelfth season of ''

Grande Fratello ''Grande Fratello'' is the Italian version of the reality television franchise '' Big Brother''. Begun in September 2000, it has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon in Italy. There have been twenty-one completed seasons as of 2021, sixteen ...

''. *7 December –

Chiara Galiazzo Chiara Galiazzo (; born 12 August 1986) is an Italian singer. She rose to fame in 2012, after winning the sixth season of the Italian talent show ''X Factor''. Her debut single, titled "Due respiri" and co-written by Eros Ramazzotti, was rel ...

wins the sixth season of ''

''.

Debuts

RAI

Serials

The young Montalbano ''The Young Montalbano'' () is an Italian television spin-off produced and broadcast by ''Radiotelevisione Italiana'' (RAI) in 2012 and 2015. It is a prequel to the '' Inspector Montalbano'' () series that are based on the detective novels of An ...

– prequel of ''

Il commissario Montalbano The ''Inspector Montalbano'' ( ) television series are Italian police procedural stories. Based on Andrea Camilleri's detective novels, they are located in the imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily, which is based on Camilleri's native Porto Empedoc ...

'', by

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli Gianluca Maria Tavarelli (born 27 September 1964) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Turin, Tavarelli was self-taught, initially producing several Super 8 and 16 mm short films. After directing several commerci ...

, with

David Riondino David Riondino (born 10 June 1952) is an Italian actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer. Life and career Born in Florence, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s ...

Salvo Montalbano Inspector, the chief of a precinct or station of the Italian National Police, i.e. a . Salvo Montalbano is a fictional police chief who is a brilliant detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories. ...

; 2 seasons. *

The family A family is a domestic or social group. Family or The Family may also refer to: Mathematics *Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters *Family of sets, a collection of sets *Indexed family, a family wh ...

– by

Riccardo Milani Riccardo Milani (born 15 April 1958) is an Italian film and television director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, Milani began his career in 1985, as assistant director of Mario Monicelli in '' Let's Hope It's a Girl''. After b ...

and Riccardo Donna, with

Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the ''commedia all'Italiana'', starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in ''Divorce Italian Style'' as Angela, the cousin and love in ...

Gianni Cavina Gianni Cavina (9 December 1940 – 26 March 2022) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1968 to 2022. Born in Bologna, Cavina trained as a stage actor at the Teatro Stabile di Bologna, under the direction of Franco P ...

Stefania Rocca Stefania Rocca (born 24 April 1971) is an Italian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films ''Nirvana'' (1997), ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) and ''Dracula'' (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's ''The Card Player''. ...

and

Alessandro Gassmann Alessandro Gassmann (born 24 February 1965) is an Italian actor and film director. Early life Gassmann was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel. He is of German, Jewish and French ...

; 3 seasons and 2 spin-offs. Soap-opera about the Rengoni, a family of Lombard industrialists. *''Questo nostro amore'' ("This our love") – by Luca Ribuoli and Isabella Leoni, with Nerì Marcorè and

Anna Valle Anna Valle (born 19 June 1975) is an Italians, Italian actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Life and career Born in Rome, Anna Valle lived in Ladispoli up to thirteen years; after the separation of her parents she moved to Sicily, in Lenti ...

; 3 seasons. The stories of two families in Turin (an irregular couple and a patriarchal clan of Sicilians), living in the same condominium, interlace for twenty years, from the Sixties to the Eighties, till to the birth of a child, son of the two firstborns.

Television shows

Rai

Drama

* ''Caruso, la voce dell'amore'' ("The voice of love") – biopic by Stefano Reali, with Gianluca Terranova in the

title role The title character in a Narrative, narrative work is one who is named or referred to in the title of the work. In a performed work such as a play or film, the performer who plays the title character is said to have the title role of the piece. The ...

Vanessa Incontrada Vanessa Incontrada (born 24 November 1978) is a Spanish-Italian actress and model. She has appeared in more than 25 films and television shows since 2003. She starred in the film '' Il cuore altrove'', which was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film ...

and

Martina Stella Martina Stella (born 28 November 1984) is an Italian actress and screenwriter. Acting career Stella made her cinematic debut at the age of 16 in 2001 in '' L'ultimo bacio''. The film was a success in Italy, and was nominated for multiple David ...

; 2 episodes. *''One Thousand and One Nights'' – by

Marco Pontecorvo Marco Pontecorvo (born November 8, 1966, Rome) is an Italian cinematographer and film director. Marco Pontecorvo was initially interested in black and white photography, but eventually became a filmmaker like his father Gillo. He debuted as di ...

, with

Marco Bocci Marco Bocci (pseudonym of Marco Bocciolini; born 4 August 1977) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than twenty films since 2001. He married fellow actress Laura Chiatti in 2014. They have two sons. Filmography * ''Interference'' (1998) * ...

and

Vanessa Hessler Vanessa Hessler (born January 21, 1988) is an Italian-American model and actress. A model since she was 15, Hessler has appeared in many publications throughout Italy, Germany and France. Early life Daughter of an Italian mother and an American ...

, freely adapted from the ''

Arabian nights ''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...

''; 2 episodes. *''Santa Barbara'' – by Carmine Elia, with

in the

and

Massimo Wertmuller Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: * Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist * Massimo A ...

. *''Walter Chiari, fino all'ultima risata'' ("Till the last laugh") – biopic by

Enzo Monteleone Enzo Monteleone (born 13 April 1954 in Padova, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Career Enzo Monteleone made his professional debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay of ''Hotel Colonial'', an Italian-American co-prod ...

, with

Alessio Boni Alessio Boni (born 4 July 1966) is an Italian actor. Life Boni was born in Sarnico in 1966. He studied theatre at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. The second of three children, Marco is the eldest and Andrea is the youngest brother. ...

in the

; 2 episodes.

Serials

* ''Nero Wolfe'' – with

Francesco Pannofino Francesco Pannofino (born 14 November 1958) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Pieve di Teco, Pannofino's parents originated from Locorotondo. Sometime after 1972, he and his family moved to Rome. He began his career in the 1 ...

in the

and

Pietro Sermonti Pietro Sermonti (born 25 October 1971) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Sermonti is the son of writer of Tuscan and Sicilian descent, and businesswoman Samaritana Rattazzi from Piedmont, a daughte ...

as Archie Goodwin; the adventures of the two detectives are relocated in the Rome of the ''

dolce vita Dolce vita or la dolce vita is Italian for "the sweet life." It may refer to: Books *"The experience of this sweet life" from Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'', Canto XX, lines 47–48 *''The First Intimate Contact'' (1998), also known as ''Dol ...

''.

News and educational

* ''Berlino la mutante'' ("

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

the mutant") – documentary by Andrea De Fusco.

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Ballando con le stelle ''Ballando con le Stelle'' is the Italian version of the ''Strictly Come Dancing'' / ''Dancing with the Stars'' franchises. It was first broadcast on 8 January 2005 on TV station RAI 1. This show is aired in the prime time, usually of saturday ...

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