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The 1950s marks the first decade that television was available in Italian homes and this chapter of the country’s TV history is really the story of its public channel, RAI: truly, speaking of Italian television in the 1950s means speaking  of RAI. Until the 1970s when private channels began appearing, Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), which is now kn...

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OK, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fans: it's time to talk about Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, outsider detective turned Assistant District Attorney, and eternal almost-flame of Detective Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish). Season 21 has brought a lot of changes to the SVU squad, not least of which is Carisi's departure from the beloved NYPD and his subs...

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Americans rarely venture out into the world of non-English-speaking cinema and television, sadly missing out on a lot of high-quality productions just because of the intimidating language barrier. This was pointed out by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho in his 2020 Academy Award acceptance speech, he then addressed American viewers challenging them t...

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US television studio wiip has hired The Traitor co-screenwriter Ludovica Rampoldi to adapt a mixed-language series set against the early days of the Mafia in New York. The series will be based on the late author Arrigo Petacco’s non-fiction book Mano Nera (Black Hand), which chronicles the work of Joe Petrosino, an Italian-born New York police offi...

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This week, TV Comedian Jimmy Kimmel broke some happy news from his living room. Sitting on the floor with a porcelain espresso cup at his side, Kimmel interviewed nurse Taylor Chase-Meyers at her home in Boston for his profiles on healthcare workers. Meyers discussed how life had changed over the past few weeks, working a 12-hour night shift at the...

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Italy looks at new ways of sharing Italian culture with the world. Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini said his ministry is discussing the creation of an Italian online platform that gives paid access to Italian culture, describing it as "a sort of Netflix of culture", according to news agency ANSA. Franceschini said the proposed platform c...

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With Cannes and Venice both up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s film promotion org. Filmitalia has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its annual Italian Screenings market online in July. Filmitalia, a unit of Italian national film entity Luce-Cinecittà, “is the first of Europe’s roughly 30 fil...

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At this stage of the game, there is no surprise that Dick Wolf’s massively successful Law & Order continues ever onward and still manages to evolve in new directions — which it’s done since the concept was introduced to viewers 30 years ago. What probably is surprising, though, is that Christopher Meloni, who played Detective Elliot Stabler alongsi...

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Few Italian novels have recently been able to cross national borders, without losing their expressive power. The so-called ‘Neapolitan novels’ written by Elena Ferrante — on which the successful TV series produced by Rai and HBO is based — have certainly been capable to do so. My Brilliant Friend’s tetralogy’s uniqueness lies not only in the powerf...

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A Support Fund for TV and Film during the COVID-19 Crisis, aimed at providing urgent, short-term support to workers and crews in the Italian audiovisual industry who are directly affected by the nationwide shutdown of production due to Coronavirus, has been announced by the online streaming and entertainment giant Netflix and the Italian Film Commi...

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