2014 in Italian television
This is a list of Italian television related events from 2014.
Events
- 26 May – Micro Petrilli wins the thirteenth season of Grande Fratello.
- 5 June – Cristina Scuccia, a Catholic nun whose blind audition became an international viral hit on YouTube, wins the second season of The Voice of Italy.
- 6 December – Racewalker Giusy Versace and her partner Raimondo Todaro win the tenth season of Ballando con le stelle.
- 11 December – Lorenzo Fragola wins the eighth season of X Factor.
Debuts
Serials
Purché finisca bene – by Fabrizio Costa and others; 4 seasons. It is a cycle of comedies, without recurring actors or characters, inspired by optimism and good feelings, also when treating serious matters, as the economic crisis.- Braccialetti rossi – by Giacomo Campiotti, with Carmine Buschini and Aurora Ruffino, Italian version of the Spanish Polseres vermelles; 3 seasons.
- Una pallottola nel cuore – by Luca Manfredi, with Gigi Proietti and Francesca Inaudi; 3 seasons. Proietti is Bruno Palmieri, a crime reporter, active and brave also if, after an attempted murder, he lives with a bullet in the chest.
Television shows
Drama
Beauty and the beast, by Fabrizio Costa, with Bianca Suarez and Alessandro Preziosi, from the homonymous fable; 2 episodes.Biopic
Per amore del mio popolo – biopic by Antonio Frazzi, with Alessandro Preziosi as don Giuseppe Diana; 2 episodes.Qualunque cosa succeda – – biopic by Albeto Negrin, with Pierfrancesco Favino as Giorgio Ambrosoli.- Mister Ignis, l'operaio che fondò un impero – biopic by Luciano Manuzzi, with Lorenzo Flaherty as the domestic appliance tycoon Giovanni Borghi; 2 episodes.
- La strada dritta by Carmine Elia, with Ennio Fantastichini as Giuseppe Cova and Anita Caprioli; 2 episodes.
Miniseries
Un'altra vita – by Cinzia TH Torrini, with Vanessa Incontrada and Daniele Lotti; 6 episodes. An upper class woman, whose existence has been upset by her husband's arrest, tries to rebuild a life as medical officer in Ponza.- Orfani – cartoon by Armando Traverso, from the Roberto Recchioni and Emiliano Mammucari's comics; 10 episodes. In an apocalyptic future, a commando of children fights against the aliens invaders.
Serials
- Impazienti – sit-com by Celeste Laudisio, with Enrico Bertolino and Max Tortora. Two crocks, for an insurance scam, are forced to a long cohabitation in an hospital, even though they can't stand each other.
- Il candidato – Zucca presidente, sit-com by Ludovico Bassegato, with Filippo Timi, Lunetta Savino and Bebo Storti; 2 seasons. Italian version of the French Hènaut prèsident, it's the story of a postman become politician, honest but absolutely incompetent, and handled by his cynical staff.
News and educationals.
- Alla scoperta del Vaticano – by Alberto Angela; 6 episodes.