2000 in Italian television

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This is a list of Italian television related events from 2000.

Contents

Events

RAI

Mediaset

Other channels

Awards

17. Telegatto award, for the season 1999–2000.

Debuts

Rai

Serials

Variety

  • Libero ("Free!") – variety focused on the prank calls, hosted by Teo Mammuccari and others; 7 seasons. The show is charged of vulgarity and sexism for the use of the soubrette Flavia Vento, forced to stay constantly under a glass desk and repeatedly humiliated. [9]
  • La prova del cuoco ("The cook's test") – cooking show, Italian version of Ready Steady Cook , hosted by Antonella Clerici and Elisa Isoardi; 20 seasons. [10]
  • Una voce per padre Pio ("A voice for Padre Pio") – benefit concert, broadcast every year from Santissima Annunziata square in Pietralcina; again on air.
  • Affari di cuore ("Heart affairs") – reality show hosted by Federica Panicucci; 2 seasons. In every episode, the fidelity of an engaged couple is tried by two "tempters".
  • Novecento – mix of talk show, quiz and variety about the history of the Twentieth century, hosted by Pippo Baudo; 6 seasons.
  • Quiz show, l'occasione di una vita – Italian version of It's Your Chance of a Lifetime, hosted by Amadeus; 2 seasons. The show, very similar to Chi vuol essere milionario? is closed because a Mediaset's complaint for plagiarism.
  • Top of the Pops , Italian version of the BBC show; 7 seasons (4 in RAI, 3 in Mediaset).
  • Torno sabato ("Saturday I come back") – traveling musical show, hosted by Giorgio Paneriello; 3 seasons.

News and educationals

  • Easy driver – magazine about motors, again on air. [11]
  • Linea Bianca ("White line") – magazine about life in the mountains, again on air. [12]
  • Il raggio verde ("The green ray"), talk show, and Sciuscià, magazine, both hosted by Michele Santoro. Because its leftist orientation, Sciuscià is closed after 2 seasons, at the express request of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi who, the year before, had attacked Santoro with a clamorous phone-call on air during an episode of Il raggio verde.
  • Stracult – magazine about Italian cinema, focused on the popular genres and the B-movies, care of Marco Giusti; it includes also satirical sketches and parodic fictions; again on air. [13]
  • Tutti a scuola ("Everybody at the school") – ceremony for the official opening of the Italian school year, with the presence of the President of Italy and the Minister of Education. [14]
  • Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta ("Ulysses, the pleasure of discovering") – informative magazine about history, art and culture, hosted by Alberto Angela. [15]

Mediaset

Miniseries

  • Le ali della vita ("The wings of the life") by Stefano Reali; 2 seasons. The series tells, in the ways of an old-fashioned melodrama, the battle between a bigoted and scheming nun (Virna Lisi) and a free-spirited music teacher (Sabina Ferilli), fought first in a female college and then in an orphanage. [16]
  • Sei forte, maestro ("Teacher, you are great") comedy with Emilio Solfrizzi, Gaia De Laurentis and Gastone Moschin; 2 seasons. A middle-aged man with a troubled family situation finds the serenity working as primary school teacher and the love in a colleague. [17]

Serials

Variety

  • 14 September – Grande Fratello (Canale 5) (2000–present; see over) [19]
  • C’è posta per te ("You"ve got mail") – people show hosted by Maria De Filippi; 21 seasons (till now), Italian record for such kind of program. The hostess organizes a reunion in studio between two persons (friends, former lovers, relatives) separated by life; the invitation letters to the show are delivered by actors dressed as postmen, sometimes VIP as the famous goalkeeper Walter Zenga. The format, also if ravaged by critics, has got a constant public success in Italy and has been largely imitated abroad. [20]
  • Chi vuol essere milionario? – game show, Italian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , hosted (for 1706 episodes, world record for the format) by Gerry Scotti, 15 seasons and a spin-off. [21]
  • Ieri e oggi in TV ("Yesterday and today in TV") – anthology of various material (moreover musical) from the Mediaset archives; again on air. [22]
  • Premiata teleditta, cabaret with the comic quartet La premiata ditta, parodying the other Mediaset programs; 4 seasons.
  • I ragazzi irresistibili ("The irresistible boys") – musical show with the singers, aged but still perky, Rita Pavone, Adriano Pappalardo, Little Tony and Maurizio Vandelli; 2 seasons.

News and educational

  • Celebrità ("Celebrities") – magazine about gossip, with Silvana Giacobini; 2 seasons.
  • Sipario del TG4 ("TG4 curtain") – magazine focused on gossip, ideated by Emilio Fede; on air till 2015.
  • Terra! ("Land!") – magazine of investigating journalism, directed by Toni Capuozzo, on air until 2017; it's considered the most professional among the Mediaset news programs. [23]

MTV Italia

Other channels

International

Television shows

The year of the Great Jubilee is characterized, on the Italian little screen, by a spread, both in RAI and Mediaset, of religious fictions, often produced by Ettore Bernabei's Lux Vide, usually naive and hagiographic products but appreciated by the large public.

RAI

Drama

  • I, Tigi, Canto per Ustica ("Song for Ustica") – monologue by Marco Paolini, played on the twentieth anniversary of the Itavia Flight 870. [24]
  • Il furto del tesoro ("The robbery of the treasure") – by Alberto Sironi, with Luca Zingaretti, script by Laura Toscano; 2 parts. In the Twenties, a cunning inspector of the fascist police foils a heist to the S. Peter's Basilica.
  • La stanza della fotografia ("The room of the photo") – thriller about domestic violence by Antonio Bonifacio, with Cinzia Monreale.
  • Vola, Sciuscìù ("Fly, Sciusciù") – by Joseph Sargent, with Lino Banfi in his first dramatic role. In Apulia, during the World War II, a mentally disable man becomes a hero saving three allied paratroopers. [25]
  • Il rumore dei ricordi ("The sound of memories") – by Paolo Poeti, from the Maria Venturi's novel, with Elena Sofia Ricci and Marco Bonini; 2 parts. A free-spirited mature woman falls in love for a younger man.
  • Una storia qualunque ("A usual story") – by Alberto Simone, with Nino Manfredi and Agnese Nano; 2 parts. After thirty years of undue prison, an aged man tries to clear his name and to recuperate a link with the sons. [26]
Religious dramas

Comedy

Miniseries

  • Nebbia in Val Padana ("Fog in the Po Valley") – nonsense comedy by Felice Farina with Cochi e Renato (reunited after 25 years of separation) as an improbable couple of private eyes. [32]
  • La bicicletta blu ("The blue bicycle") – by Thierry Binisti, from the Régine Deforges' novel, with Laetitia Casta and Silvia De Santis; 3 chapters, coproduced with France. It's almost a remake of Gone with the wind , whose plot is transposed in France during World War II.
  • Vite bruciacchiate ("Scorched lives") – by Carlo Arturo Signon, with Elio e le Storie Tese and Renzo Arbore; 4 episodes. The series, that tells the absurd adventures of an Italian rock band looking for success in the USA, was aired after midnight, with very low ratings, and no more replied or distributed in home video; despite its invisibility, in the years it has become a cult-object for the fans of EELST.

Serials

  • Ricominciare ("Starting over") – first RAI soap-opera, set in Perugia, about the vicissitudes of two families (the publishers Vallesi and the middle-class Ruggeri). Aired daily, it's abruptly stopped after a single season for low ratings.

Music

  • La Traviata à Paris – by Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi, with Eteri Gvazava and Josè Cura; the Verdi's opera is broadcast live from the real places of the story in Paris (also if the action is transposed in the year 1900); second chapter of the series La via della musica ("The music way").

Variety

News and educational

Mediaset

Comedy and drama

  • Dov'è mio figlio? ("Where is my son?") – by Lucio Gaudino, with Laura Morante; the broadcast of the movie, about the research of a kidnapped child in Cuba, curiously coincides with the Elián González affair.
  • La casa delle beffe ("The jests' house") – by Pier Francesco Pingitore, with Anna Falchi and Pippo Franco; 2 parts. A Tuscan villa is the theatre, in various historical ages, of eight jests (plus one, in the year 2000, which frames the others).
  • Operazione Odissea ("Operation Odissey") by Claudio Fragasso, with Luca Zingaretti, Daniele Liotti and Leo Gullotta; 2 parts. A police commando with codenames all inspired by the Homeric poems has to escort a pentito and to capture a Mafia boss; it carries out the two missions, also if at the cost of the commander's life.
Religious fictions

Miniseries

Serials

Variety

  • Bigodini ("Hair rollers") – game show focused on Gossip magazines and set in a fictitious hairdressing salon, hosted by Max Novaresi; 2 seasons.
  • A tu per tu ("Face to face") – talk show of the noon, hosted by Antonalla Clerici and Maria Teresa Ruta, then substituted by Gianfranco Funari.
  • Macchemù [37] – contest among the most famous title tracks of the Italian TV shows, hosted by Paola Barale; the winner is Giorgio Vanni with Pokémon .
  • Operazione five ("Operation five") – anthology of the Canale 5 variety shows, celebrating the twenty years of activity by the network.
  • Ricomincio da 20 ("I restart from twenty") – show celebrating the Canale 5's twenty years of activity, hosted by Mike Bongiorno and Paolo Bonolis.
  • Provini, tutti pazzi per la TV ("Auditions, everybody crazy for TV") – hosted by Gerry Scotti; unfortunate auditions, taken from the Mediaset archives, are shown to the public, often in presence of the candidates themselves.
  • Teatro 18 – show, hosted by Serena Dandini and Claudio Bisio, with singers and comedians performing together.
  • Telenauta 69 – with Lilo & Greg; the program opposes nostalgically a fake 1969 RAI variety, shot in black and white and inspired to cult shows as Canzonissima , to pieces of the vulgar Italian TV in 2000.
  • Wozzup, la casa di Italia 1 ("What's up, Italia1 house") – talk show aimed to the teen-agers, hosted by Daniele Bossari.

Other channels

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

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