In Italy, FNC was launched on the now-defunct Italian digital satellite-television platform Stream TV in 2001.

* 1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and TV personality

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

* Vivere ( May 2006 ) ( Italian TV Series ) ... Emir Ibrahim

* Un Medico in Famiglia ( 2007 ) ( Italian TV Series )

In 2009, in an interview for Italian TV, after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino said " You haven't asked me about the third one ", and implied that he would be making a third Kill Bill film with the words " The Bride will fight again!

The Italian RAI TV show La notte della Repubblica mentioned the possibility that the Red Brigades had been infiltrated by Israeli agents as early as 1974.

Italian TV experienced a stint of interest in SF between 1970 and 1975.

* Iris ( TV channel ), an Italian free entertainment television channel

Gardner has been portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the TV miniseries Sinatra, Deborah Kara Unger in HBO's The Rat Pack, Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator and Anna Drijver in the 2012 Italian TV film Walter Chiari-Fino all ' ultima risata.

* In 2006 a two-episode TV movie was broadcast by Italian state television RAI, dedicated to the magistrate, starring Massimo Dapporto as Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Francesca Morvillo.

Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling the Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show (" Wojtylaccio ", meaning " Bad Wojtyla " in Italian ).

One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Milan's Articolo 31, then and still today produced by Franco Godi, who had written the soundtrack to the animated TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s.

Lean could not find financial backing for both films after Warner Bros. withdrew from the project ; he decided to combine it into one, and even looked at a seven-part TV series, before finally getting backing from Italian magnate Dino De Laurentiis.

In Italy, the Discovery Channel ( and HD ) is distributed via satellite by Sky Italia, the most Italian pay TV.

* Hiro ( TV channel ), an Italian channel

Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.

Her annual world tours and Italian TV shows, however, continued to include her best of the late sixties.

* Caravaggio, a 2007 Italian TV film about the painter directed by Angelo Longoni

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

Italian American TV personalities, such as Mario Batali, Giada DeLaurentiis, Rachael Ray and Lidia Bastianich were hosting popular cooking shows featuring Italian cuisine.

a satirical attack on the traditions of the European society, of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511, dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More, and inspired by De triumpho stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

Stefano Benni ( born August 12, 1947 in Bologna ) is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist.

Many stories are satirical and take on the real world political divide between the Italian Roman Catholic Church and the Italian Communist Party, not to mention other worldly politics.

If a satirical account in two poems by the poet William Dunbar is based in fact, the castle walls may have been the site of an attempt at human-powered flight, c. 1509, by the Italian alchemist and abbot of Tongland, John Damian.

From this time he showed himself the Italian Béranger, and even surpassed the Frenchman in richness of language, refinement of humour and depth of satirical conception.

The displacement of the old Italian comedy by the dramas of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni, modelled on French examples, threatened to defeat the society's efforts ; in 1757 Gozzi came to the rescue by publishing a satirical poem, La tartana degli influssi per l ' anno 1756, and in 1761 his comedy based on a fairy tale, The Love for Three Oranges or Analisi riflessiva della fiaba L ' amore delle tre melarance, a parody of the style of the other two poets.

* Raffaele Palma ( born 1953 ), Italian satirical artist and humorist

This play, unlike his earlier satirical revues, was a romantic comedy set in the country, though he did use this play a vehicle to satirize such things as Italian opera and the gentry of Cornwall.

The Mandrake ( Italian: La Mandragola ; written in 1518 and first printed in 1524 ) is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance writer Niccolò Machiavelli.

Sardelli is a longtime collaborator on the satirical magazine Il Vernacoliere and contributes through his satire of Italian mainstream culture, religion and religious kitsch.

Il Vernacoliere is an Italian monthly satirical magazine based in Livorno, Tuscany, founded in 1982 by editor-director Mario Cardinali.

The magazine features satirical articles, comics, and an editorial note ( in standard Italian ), with the occasional addition of opinion pieces.

He courted controversy in 1775 when his satirical picture " The Conjurer " was seen to attack the fashion for Italian Renaissance art and to ridicule Sir Joshua Reynolds ( it also included a nude caricature of fellow Academician Angelica Kauffmann, later painted out by Hone ), and was rejected by the Royal Academy.

* A satirical Italian Duna website

* The Italian satirical magazine Cuore referred to Andreotti as Giulio " Lavazza " – Lavazza being a leading Italian brand of coffee.

Capezzone became a well-known politician also for his appearances in the satirical TV show Markette ( on private TV-channel La7 ) and for his caricature-imitation made by Italian comedian Neri Marcorè in another satirical TV show, Superciro ( on private TV-channel Italia 1 ).

Bruno Bozzetto ( born 3 March 1938 in Milan, Italy ) is an Italian cartoon animator, creator of many short pieces, mainly of a political or satirical nature.

The comic book is a satirical take on classic secret agents laden with surreal and black humour, sardonic references to aspects of the contemporary Italian and Western society.

Italian fumetto has its roots in periodicals aimed at younger readers and in the satirical publications of the 19th century.

The Cardinal's actions led to a custom of criticizing the pope or his government by the writing of satirical poems in broad Roman dialect -- called " pasquinades " from the Italian " pasquinate "-- and attaching them to the statue " Pasquino ".