1999 in Italian television


This is a list of Italian television related events from 1999.

Events

Rai

Mediaset

  • 3 July - Debut of Momenti di gloria, a series hosted by Mike Bongiorno in which members of the public impersonate their favourite singers.

Other channels

Awards

16. Telegatto award, for the season 1998–1999.

Debuts

Miniseries

Serials

Variety

Al posto tuo – talk-show hosted by Alba d’Eusabio; 7 seasons. Considered a typical example of trash TV, the program is also accused of presenting as real made-up stories; following the controversies, the presenter was replaced by Paola Perego.Cominciamo bene – talk show of the morning, hosted by Toni Garrani, Michele Mirabella and various others; 13 seasons.Convenscion – cabaret with Enrico Bertolino and Natasha Stefanenko; 3 seasons.Festa di classe – game show hosted by Amadeus and Pippo Franco; 2 seasons. Two VIP must compete with their old schoolmates.Sette per uno – game show of the summer from the Mirabilandia park, hosted by Gigi Sabani; 3 seasonsSanremo estate – musical show, 6 editions.Varietà'' – anthology of variety from the RAI archive; 5 seasons. It generates two spin-offs

News and educational

Correva l’anno – historical magazine, care of Paolo Mieli.La musica di RAI 3 – magazine of art music; 16 seasons.
  • ''C’era una volta by Silvestro Montanaro – magazine about the problems of the Third World, realized in collaboration with United Nations; 14 seasons.

For children

Melevisione – show for children, hosted by Danilo Bertazzi and Lorenzo Branchetti; 16 seasons. Initially, it's a simple block programming of cartoons, but soon it evolves in two distinct shows: La Melevisione and La melevisione e le sue storie.Teletubbies

Serials

Variety

  • Allegria! – quiz aired for Christmas and hosted by Mike Bongiorno, with VIP contenders answering questions about television history; 3 editions.
  • 3 July - Momenti di gloria
  • Passaparola – game show hosted by Gerry Scotti, Italian version of The alphabet game; 8 seasons.
  • Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? – game show and variety with contenders from four to ten years old, hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti; 6 seasons. Italian version of the Spanish Esos locos bajitos''.''
  • Il trucco c’è - talk show hosted by Rita dalla Chiesa and the make-up artist Diego dalla Palma; 2 seasons.

Serials

Vivere – soap opera about the lives of three families in Como, with Gianni Garko and Veronica Logan; 8 seasons. Finché c’è ditta c’è speranza – comical sketches with the comic quartet La premitata ditta

News and educational

Pressing champions’ league – sport magazine about the matches of UEFA champions League, hosted by Massimo De Luca and Giorgia Rossi; 9 seasons TV Moda – fashion magazine, hosted by Jo Squillo; again, on air. Born on the Mediaset channels, it evolves later into a satellite channel of its own., owned by Class Editori.

For children

Other channels

Anime night; 11 seasons. Unlike in other Italian televisions, anime are broadcast uncensored for an adult audience. Total request Italia – Italian version of Total Request Live; 11 seasons Come Thelma e Louise – reality series, hosted by Justine Mattera, showing couples of girls travelling in exotic places; 3 seasons. Stargate Linea di confine – program of popular science, initially bound to the Stargate serial, hosted by Ruggeerio Giacobbo and, later, by Valerio Massimo Manfredi; 9 seasons. Diretta stadio: ed è subito gol!, talk show commenting live the main football matches, and TG7 sport, sport news programs; both again on air Missione relitti – magazine about underwater explorations;

Television shows

Drama

Pinocchio ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza – parody of the Collodi's novel, directed and interpreted by Carmelo Bene.A due passi dal cielo by Sergio Martino, with Giulia Boschi and Pino Quartullo; drama about adoption.Il compagno – by Francesco Maselli, with Luca Zagaria and Amanda Sandrelli, from Cesare Pavese's novel; the ripening of a young communist under the fascism.Meglio tardi che mai – by Luca Manfredi, with Nino Manfredi and Nancy Brilli ; a girl pursues to Cuba her father, fled from an oppressive family, but ends up following his example.Tutti per uno – by Gianfranco De Sisti, with Giampiero Ingrassia and Anna Valle; a group of children resort to all means, even illicit, to pay for a heart operation on one of their mates.I guardiani del Cielo – by Alberto Negrin, archeological fantasy from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Tower of loneliness, with Ben Cross and Peter Weller.

Religious

Crime

Ama il tuo nemico by Damiano Damaini, with Andrea Di Stefano and Massimo Ranieri; 2 episodes. A young criminal is redeemed by the example of an anti-Camorra priestIl mistero del cortile – by Paolo Poeti, with Elisabetta Gardini and Franco Castellano; 2 episodes. A psychologist, casual witness of a murder, is, against her will, involved in the enquiry.La donna del treno by Carlo Lizzani, with Antonella Fattori and Alessio Boni; 2 episodes. A deputy prosecutor investigates a crime, whose main suspect was her one-night stand.Morte di una ragazza perbene – by Luigi Perelli, with Remo Girone, Romina Mondello and Riccardo Cucciolla in his last role; vaguely inspired by the killing of Marta Russo.Ombre – thriller by Cinzia Th Torrini, with Stefania Rocca and Tobias Moretti; coproduced with Germany. The hunt for a serial killer is bound to mysterious murders happened three centuries earlier.

Miniseries

Gli amici di Sara by Gabriele Muccino; 8 shorts produced by Ministry of Health for a campaign against AIDS and broadcast simultaneously by RAI and Mediaset.Fine secolo – by Gianni Lepre, with Fabrizio Contri, Ana Kanakis and Arnoldo Foà; 6 episodes; intricate detective story vaguely inspired by the events of the Ferruzzi family.La vita che verrà – by Pasquale Pozzerese, with Valeria Golino, Roberto De Francesco and Margherita Buy; 4 episodes; family saga, showing the Italian history from 1944 to 1960, through the lives of two married couples.

Serial

Baldini e Simoni – sitcom about an enlarged family, with Roberto Citran and Mariella Valentini.Pepe Carvalho – Italian-Spanish co-production from Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's novels, with Juanjo Puigcorbé and Valeria Marini.

For children

Jolanda, la figlia del corsaro nero – animated series from the Emilio Salgari's novel, coproduced with Spain.

Variety

C’era un ragazzo... – tribute show to Gianni Morandi, debuting as presenter.I fantastici di Raffaella – daily strip with Raffaella CarràFrancamente me ne infischio – musical show with Adriano Celentano and Francesca Neri.GNU – showcase show for young comic actors, hosted by Pia Klover. 2000 today – show of the end of the year.Su e giù – infotainment show, hosted by Gaia De Laurentis.Troppolitani – cabaret with Antonio Rezza, the comic actor has surreal conversations with passers-by on the streets of Rome.L’ultimo valzer – spinoff of Anima mia, with Fabio Fazio and Claudio Baglioni.Barracuda – late show with Daniele Luttazzi.

News and educational

Circus – itinerant talk show, set under a circus tent, hosted by Michele Santoro. Ragazzi del 99 - magazine by Enrico Deaglio.

Drama

Cristallo di rocca, una storia di Natale - by Maurrizio Zaccaro, from Adalbert Stifter's novel, with Virna Lisi and Tobias Moretti; coproduction with Austria.Villa Ada – by Pier Francesco Pingitore, with Gianni Garko and Eva Grimaldi; several stories interlace on the background of the Roman park. Mio figlio ha settant’anni – by Giorgio Capitani, with Massimo Dapporto, Philippe Noiret and Elena Sofia Ricci; a married couple must face an uneasy convivence with an evicted old neighbor. Tre stelle – by Pier Francesco Pingitore, with Alba Parietti, Eva Grimaldi and Mandala Tayde; the misadventures of three Italian actresses in the Second world war.

Crime

IAS – Investigatore allo sbaraglio - by Giorgio Molteni, with Corrado Mantoni as himself; pilot of a detective comedy series, not realized for the death of the showman.Il commissario Raimondi - by Paolo Costella; with Marco Columbro and Barbara De Rossi.Mai con i quadri and Tre addii – by Mario Caiano, with Daniele Liotti and Anne Roussel; a judge and a policewoman investigate together about mysterious murders.Ultimo – La sfida by Michele Soavi, with Raul Bova and Ricky Memphis; sequel of ''Ultimo''

Serial

Anni 60 - by Carlo Vanzina, with Ezio Greggio, Jerry Calà and Maurizio Mattioli; tribute to the classics of the commedia all’italiana.Caraibi – pirate swashbuckler by Lamberto Bava, with Nicholas Rogers and Mario Adorf. – by Fabrizio Costa, with Paolo Seganti and Hardy Kruger jr, from the Jules Verne's novel; Ciao Professore - miniseries about school by José Maria Sanchez, with Massimo Dapporto and Antonella Fattori.L’ispettore Giusti detective comedy by Sergio Martino, with Enrico Montesano and Mietta.Squadra mobile scomparsi – procedural by Claudio Bonivento, with Claudio Amendola and Elena Sofia Ricci

Variety

La canzone del secolo - music show hosted by Pippo Baudo.Capriccio – erotic talk show, hosted by Alba PariettiInnamorati pazzi - St. Valentine day show, hosted by Loretta Goggi.Tel chi el telun - shooting of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo stage show.

News and educational

Real TV, eroi per caso - docu-drama about the dramatic experiences of true persons, hosted by Marco Liorni; the show is deleted after a season, because of a lawsuit for plagiarism by RAI.

Other channels

Dario Argento, il mio cinema - documentary by Luigi Cozzi.

Ending this year

Campioni di balloChi c’è c’èColpo di fulmineDue per treGame boatGiochi senza frontiereGlu GluLui e leiMoby DickIl mondo di QuarkQuark speciale
  • ''Sgarbi quotidiani''

Channels

New channels