Two Greedy Italians

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Two Greedy Italians
Genre Cooking
Presented by Antonio Carluccio
Gennaro Contaldo
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes8
Production
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original network BBC Two
Original release4 May 2011 (2011-05-04) 
17 May 2012 (2012-05-17)

Two Greedy Italians is a BBC television series that first aired on BBC Two in the UK on 4 May 2011. The series saw the chefs Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio travelling around Italy to see how society and food has evolved over the years. It was produced by Nicola Gooch. An accompanying cookery book was produced for the series. A second series (entitled Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry) was broadcast in April and May 2012. The series has also been sold and broadcast internationally, including on the Australian channels ABC and SBS, [1] the Swedish broadcaster SVT and the Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

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References

  1. "Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry on SBS ONE : SBS Food". www.sbs.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012.