Rai Fiction has presented a preview of its new programming. Among the most awaited TV series, Medici, I bastardi di Pizzofalcone and The Name of the Rose.
Rai Fiction, the Public Service’s seal of quality, presented its program for the next season, marked with a careful diversification of the offer and experimental work on genres and languages. Rai Fiction’s next season will be characterized by the purpose of explaining Italy to Italians and ‘Italianness’ to the world, with the presence of event titles with a clear international vocation, which brings Rai Fiction to claim its well-deserved presence in the front row of the audiovisual wide global market.
Titles highly anticipated also abroad, like the new season of Medici – Lorenzo il Magnnifico, produced by Lux Vide, Big Light, Altice Studio and distributed by Beta, which brings a stellar cast and the supervision of Frank Spotnitz, in addition to the best Italian professionals. The main characters of the new episodes will this time be Lorenzo il Magnifico, one of the most eminent figures of the Italian Renaissance.
Another international production, taken from the Elena Ferrante’s world-renowned best-seller, will be L’Amica Geniale, set in Naples after the war, a great HBO-RAI co-production. Two little girls, a story of female redemption, of lifetime friendship, the smaller and the biggest stories intertwining. The author of the novel wrote the screenplays with Francesco Piccolo, Laura Paolucci and Saverio Costanzo, who is also the director.
Another title with a definite impact will be The Name of the Rose, taken from Umberto Eco’s masterpiece, and another great international co-production with AMC and Tele München. A riveting thriller set in a Middle-Ages abbey and directed by Giacomo Battiato, with an international cast such as John Turturro and Rupert Everett. And let us not forget Autumn’s crime show, like the second season of I bastardi di Pizzofalcone, taken from the novels of Maurizio De Giovanni, directed by Alessandro D’Alatri and Alessandro Gassman as its main character, and brought to life in a bourgeois Naples and its daily life.
Another expected return is also the one of Rocco Schiavone, masterfully embodied by Marco Giallini, the assistant chief police created by Antonio Manzini. Four episodes in which the past and life’s unresolved issues will always be lurking. Coming along, also Nero a Metà, with the inspector Carlo Guerrieri played by Claudio Amendola, and under the direction of Marco Pontecorvo. Following them, La Vita Promessa, the story of a Sicilian family emigrated to America during Prohibition and the crisis of 1929, and the strength of a woman’s courage with Carmela, played by Luisa Ranieri, and directed by Ricky Tognazzi.
On the comedy side, hybridized with a legal plot, the second series of Non Dirlo al Mio Capo, directed by Riccardo Donna, starring Vanessa Incontrada. Her character, having to sustain her family, will struggle between hidden truths, a love triangle and a boss with a strong personality (Lino Guanciale). Finally, new episodes Una Pallottola Nel Cuore are also on the way, with a third season of the series coming. Gigi Proietti returns to the streets and alleys of Rome in the role of the crime novelist Bruno Palmieri to investigate old and unresolved cases.
