2012 in Italian television
This is a list of Italian television related events from 2012.
Events
- 5 January – Francesca Michielin wins the fifth season of X Factor.
- 10 March – 21-year-old acro pole flag man Stefano Scarpa wins the third season of Italia's Got Talent.
- 17 March – Singer and actor Andrés Gil and his partner Anastasia Kuzmina win the eighth season of Ballando con le stelle.
- 1 April – Sabrina Mbarek wins the twelfth season of Grande Fratello.
- 7 December – Chiara Galiazzo wins the sixth season of X Factor.
Debuts
RAI
Serials
- The young Montalbano – prequel of Il commissario Montalbano, by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, with David Riondino as Salvo Montalbano; 2 seasons.
- The family – by Riccardo Milani and Riccardo Donna, with Stefania Sandrelli, Gianni Cavina, Stefania Rocca and Alessandro Gassmann; 3 seasons and 2 spin-offs. Soap-opera about the Rengoni, a family of Lombard industrialists.
- Questo nostro amore – by Luca Ribuoli and Isabella Leoni, with Nerì Marcorè and Anna Valle; 3 seasons. The stories of two families in Turin, living in the same condominium, interlace for twenty years, from the Sixties to the Eighties, till to the birth of a child, son of the two firstborns.
Television shows
Rai
Drama
Caruso, la voce dell'amore – biopic by Stefano Reali, with Gianluca Terranova in the title role, Vanessa Incontrada and Martina Stella; 2 episodes.- One Thousand and One Nights – by Marco Pontecorvo, with Marco Bocci and Vanessa Hessler, freely adapted from the Arabian nights; 2 episodes.
- Santa Barbara – by Carmine Elia, with Vanessa Hessler in the title role and Massimo Wertmuller.
- Walter Chiari, fino all'ultima risata – biopic by Enzo Monteleone, with Alessio Boni in the title role; 2 episodes.