2005 in Italian television
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This is a list of Italian television related events from 2005.
Events
RAI
- 26 February – Actress and TV host Hoara Borselli and her partner Simone Di Pasquale win the first season of Ballando con le stelle.
- 5 March: Francesco Renga, with Angelo, wins the Sanremo Festival, hosted by Paolo Bonolis. The final evening is the most seen show of the year, with 13, 6 million viewiers.[1]
- 8 April : the three RAI channel, Canale 5, Rete 4 and La 7 simultaneously broadcast live the funeral of Pope John Paul II.[2] Almost 14 million viewers follow the event on the various channels.[3]
- 30 May: on digital terrestrial TV, launch of RAI Futura, a channel aimed to young people.
- 1 June Sandro Curzi, as older Counselor, becomes RAI President in place of Francesco Alberoni; on 31 July is replaced by Claudio Petruccioli. On 5 August, Alfredo Meocci becomes RAI general director.
- 27 October: on RAI 1, the second episode of Rockpolitik, a show hosted and directed by Adriano Celentano, obtains 12.5 million viewers (with a peak of 15.6 when the singer performs with Roberto Benigni). Celentano realizes the program in absolute freedom and does not fail to tease the Berlusconi cabinet and the director of RAI 1 Fabrizio Del Noce (who had resigned temporarily in disagreement with the show).[4]
- 8 November: the satellite channel RAI News 24 broadcasts Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre, a Sigfrido Ranucci’s enquiry denouncing the use of white phosphorus bombs by the American Army in the battle of Fallujah. The documentary gets a worldwide echo, but it’s aired only partially on the main RAI channels.[5]
Mediaset
- 20 January: Mediaset launches its pay-per-view service, Mediaset Premium. Initially, it broadcasts only Serie A matches, but from June it is extended to film, fiction and reality show.
- 3 October: launch of the home-shopping channel Mediashopping. It replaces the similar Canale D, purchased by Mediaset in March and closed in July.
Other channels
- 27 August: on the digital terrestrial TV, launch of La7 Sport.
- 1 October: on the Sky platform, debut of Discovery Real Time.
- 3 October: the music channel Rete A All Music is bought by L’espresso group and change its name in All Music.
Debuts
RAI
- 8 January – Ballando con le stelle, italian version of Strictly come dancing, hosted by Milly Carlucci (2005–present).[6]
Mediaset
Serials
- RIS – Delitti imperfetti with Lorenzo Flaherty and Nicole Grimaudo; 5 seasons and a spin-off (RIS Roma).[7]
Variety
- Il senso della vita - talk show hosted by Paolo Bonolis; 4 seasons.
Other channels
- Le invasioni barbariche – talk-show hosted by Daria Bignardi; 10 seasons (La7)
- S.O.S. tata – Italian version of Nanny 911, with Lucia Rizzi (Fox Life, then La 7; 8 seasons).[8]
- Very Victoria – talk show with Victoria Cabello; 4 seasons (MTV Italia).
International
- October –
BB3B (Disney Channel) (2005) 
Desperate Housewives (Fox Live).- Lost (Fox)
- House (Italia 1)
- Grey’s anatomy (FOX life).
Television shows
Rai
Drama and comedy
- Il bambino sull’acqua (The child on the water) by Paolo Bianchini, with Beppe Fiorello and Vittoria Belvedere; a couple chooses to live on a boat for the health of their asthmatic son.
- Il bell’Antonio – by Maurizio Zaccaro, from Vitaliano Brancati’s Beautiful Antonio, with Daniele Liotti and Nicole Grimaudo.[9]
Crime
- L’uomo sbagliato (The wrong man) by Stefano Reali, with Beppe Fiorello; inspired to the true story of Daniele Barillà, victim of a sensational miscarriage of justice.
- La caccia by Massimo Spano, with Claudio Amendola and Alessio Boni; a punisher, to avenge his family, hunts down an innocent man.
- Mio figlio (My son) – by Luciano Odorisio with Lando Buzzanca as a police inspector who must face the homosexuality of his son.
Comedy
- Il mondo è meraviglioso – by Vittorio Sindoni, with Enrico Montesano as an unscrupulous businessman.[10]
- Padre Speranza – by Ruggero Deodato, with Bud Spencer as the chaplain of a juvenile prison.
- Il veterinario by Josè Maria Sanchez, with Gigi Proietti and Anna Galliena; a veterinary doctor is faultlessly involved in a case of pet food adulteration.[11]
Romance
- L’amore non basta (Love is not enough) – by Tiziana Aristarco, with Francesco Salvi and Veronica Pivetti.
- Un anno a primavera – by Angelo Longoni, with Nicoletta Romanoff and Giorgio Pasotti; love story set in a therapeutic community.
- Regina dei fiori (The queen of flowers) – by Vittorio Sindoni, with Manuela Arcuri and Giorgio Lupano.
Historical drama
- Imperium: Saint Peter by Giulio Base, with Omar Sharif in the title role.[12]
- Meucci, l’italiano che inventò il telefono (The Italian inventor of the telephone) by Fabrizio Costa, with Massimo Ghini in the title role.
- Pope John Paul II by John Kent Harrison, with Jon Voight in the title role; coproduced with Lux Vide.[13]
- Cefalonia by Riccardo Milani with Luca Zingaretti, Luisa Ranieri and Jasmine Trinca; fictionalized account of the massacre of the Acqui Division.
- Il cuore nel pozzo (The heart in the pit) – by Alberto Negrin, with Leo Gullotta and Beppe Fiorello; first Italian fiction about the foibe massacres.[14]
- De Gasperi, l’uomo della speranza (Man of hope) by Lilliana Cavani, with Fabrizio Gifuni in the title role.[15]
- Edda by Giorgio Capitani, with Alessandra Martines (Edda Mussolini), Massimo Ghini (Galeazzo Ciano) and Claude Brasseur (Benito Mussolini).
- Il grande Torino (Grande Torino) - by Claudio Bonivento, with Ciro Esposito and Beppe Fiorello (as Valentino Mazzola).[16]
Miniseries
- La maledizione dei templari (The Templars' curse) – by Josée Dayan, from Maurice Druon’s The accursed kings, with Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Depardieu and Luca Barbareschi; 5 episodes. Coproduced with France and Romania.
Variety
- Rockpolitik - show hosted and directed by Adriano Celentano; 4 episodes (see over)
- Speciale per me, ovvero meno siamo meglio stiamo (Special for me, or The less, the merrier) – musical show, hosted by Renzo Arbore and Antonio Stornaiolo. The program, ideated in 4 episodes, is dilated until 17 ones, thanks to its public success.[17]
- Bla bla bla – fake talk-show, (actually, a demented parody of the genre) hosted by Lilo and Greg.[18]
News and educational
- Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre,by Sigfrido Ranucci (see over).
Mediaset
Drama and comedy
- Il mio amico Babbo Natale by Franco Amurri, Christmas fable with Lino Banfi (as Santa Claus) and Gerry Scotti.
- La signora delle camelie by Ludovico Gasparini, with Francesca Neri; from Alexandre Dumas fils’ The lady of the camellias, the action is transferred from Paris to Milan.[19]
- Gli occhi dell’amore – romantic comedy directed and interpreted by Giulio Base, with Michela Ramazzotti.
- I colori della vita (Colors of life) by Stefano Reali, with Nancy Brilli and Alessandra Martines; history of a troubled female friendship.[20]
- Carasinieri: sotto copertura – by Raffaele Mertes, with Manuela Arcuri and Ettore Bassi; spin-off of Carabinieri.[21]
Biopic
- Karol: A Man Who Became Pope by Giacomo Battiato, with Piotr Adamczyk in the title role; Italian-Polish coproduction.[22]
- Sacco & Vanzetti by Fabrizio Costa, with Sergio Rubini (Nicola Sacco) and Ennio Fantastichini (Bartolomeo Vanzetti); coproduced wit Bulgaria.[23]
- Imperia la grande cortigiana by Pier Francesco Pingitore, with Manuela Arcuri as Imperia Cognati.[24]
- Callas e Onassis by Giorgio Capitani, with Luisa Ranieri (Maria Callas) and Gérard Damon (Aristotle Onassis).[25]
- Dalida by Joyce Bunuel, biopic with Sabrina Felilli (in the title role) and Alessandro Gassmann (Luigi Tenco); coproduced with France.
Miniseries
- Ho sposato un calciatore by Stefano Sollima, Italian version of Footballers' wives, with Paolo Seganti, Jane Alexander and Edoardo Leo, 4 episodes.
- Padri e figli (Fathers and sons) by Gianfranco Albano and Gianni Zanasi, with Silvio Orlando and Marina Massironi; 6 episodes. Family stories revolving around a medical consulting center.[26]
- Ricomincio da me (I restart from myself) by Rossella Izzo, with Barbara D’Urso and Ricky Tognazzi; 6 episodes. A divorced woman rebuilds her life and find again her first love.[27]
News and educational
- Matrix – late night in-depth program hosted by Enrico Mentana, then by other journalists; 13 seasons.[28]
Networks and services
Launches
| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Planet | Cable and satellite | 1 May | ||
| Sportitalia 2 | Cable and satellite | 1 September | ||
| MediaShopping | Cable and satellite | 30 September | ||
| Discovery Real Time | Cable and satellite | 1 October | ||
| AXN | Cable and satellite | 29 October | ||
| Fox Crime | Cable and satellite | 31 October | ||
| XXXX | Cable and satellite | 30 November |
Births
Deaths
- 27 February: Franco Bracardi, musician and comic actor, 69
- 1 March: Alberto Castagna, journalist and presenter, 59.
- 2 March: Corrado Pani, actor, 68.
- 19 March: Jader Jacobelli, journalist, host of Tribuna politica, 86.
- 27 May: Franco Diogene, actor, 57.
- 15 June: Valeria Moriconi, actress, 73.
- 3 July: Alberto Lattuada, director, 90.
- 2 August: Sandro Bolchi, director, 80.
- 24 August: Ambrogio Fogar, explorer and author of travel programs, 64.
- 25 september: Fulvia Colombo, the first announcer in history of Italian television, 79
- 15 December: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, director, 84.
- 25 December: Felice Andreasi, comic actor, 77.
