The titles that marked the season, the successful ones and the ones to forget. The series, the shows, the reality shows, the talks. Let’s start with our favorites.
The best
The dream
The evening on St. Peter’s has just been broadcast, but the civil prayer of Roberto Benigni dedicated to the Ventotene Manifesto – from which, thanks to Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni confined to the island during fascism the dream of European unity was born – it leaves its mark.
Rocco Schiavone
Time has also passed for the deputy commissioner who ignores what political correctness is, the most stupid person on TV, but what a talent. Marco Giallini in loden in the frost of Aosta. The series from the books by Antonio Manzini he’s not afraid to show his dark side.
Gorgeous setting
Thank goodness Geppi Cucciari there is. With interviews without the handbrake on, the experts we would like in the living room, the public asking questions about freeloading children and distracted husbands (generally sitting nearby). It would be reductive to call it a people show, the categories (pensioners, dual role women, male elite) are a world to discover.
Cucciari: “I’m romantic even if you can’t see it. Never regretted a joke, not even with Mattarella”
by Silvia Fumarola
October 14, 2025
Who saw it?
Again on Rai 3, for the last bastion of public service that has become a community: the program with Federica Sciarelli it is made with passion and rigor. The public wants to feel useful, and it is. The world of the disappeared is made up of families who wait. Nice to know that there are those who don’t forget and don’t give up.
Federica Sciarelli: “’Who saw it?’ he is a fort, never subjected to pressure. I remain a free woman”
Silvia Fumarola
03 August 2024
Report
Credit where credit is due, the team led by Siegfried Ranucci investigates, discovers, asks many questions, on behalf of all of us. Investigations cause discussion, memories are awakened. Another symbolic title of Rai 3, a network that has lost its identity over the years.
M – The son of the century
From the novel that won the Strega Prize by Antonio Scuratia beautiful, complex, visionary, grotesque and profound Sky series.
‘M – The son of the century’, Luca Marinelli becomes Benito Mussolini – The trailer
For the director Joe Wrightthe story of Mussolini is a chapter in Italian history and the private portrait of a relentless seducer. Luca Marinelli, Barbara Chichiarelli, Elena Liettitrue talents.
The wheel of fortune
Can we take an old success symbol of generalist TV and make it reborn without distorting it? At the suggestion of Berlusconi, who places – in a revised and corrected version – the game played for a lifetime by Mike Bongiornosince the summer, has become a cult. The wheel of Gerry Scotti It’s the phenomenon of the season.
Gerry Scotti: “The wheel turns for me, 70 is the golden age”
by Silvia Fumarola
July 24, 2025
Brothers of Crozza
The satire that resists, the desire to talk about Italy with a lateral look: Maurizio Crozzawith his accomplice Andrea Zaloneis a bulwark on the Nine. Irony and creativity, for an artist as free as the first day.
Crozza becomes Meloni: the announcement of the big names at Atreju like the Sanremo festival
The Count of Monte Cristo
Yes, becoming rich and ruthless again, to take revenge on those who ruined our lives, is a widespread feeling. The director Bill August gives emotions. The rest is in the Englishman’s gaze Sam Claflinthe romantic hero we root for after the first minute.
The Tower of Babel
Against the current, Corrado Augias with his calm style he provides insights in prime time on La7 with a cultural program that arouses curiosity and has a loyal audience. Guests talk without being interrupted.
The worst on TV of 2025
The couple
Pier Silvio Berlusconi called it “one of the ugliest programs I’ve ever seen”, along with At the Sole: “As I looked at them I got goosebumps with anger.” And if it came to him, let alone the public. For Ilary Blasi her return as a presenter on Canale 5 is a complete loss.
BellaMa’ in the evening
Pierluigi Diaco tries the experiment in prime time, an unworkable program emerges. Since it has been closed, we won’t rage further. For the more distracted we remember the key moments with Michele Cucuzza, Attilio Romita e Flora Canto. But the cat that Valeria Marini caressing on the round fuchsia sofa it was cute.
We’ll see some good ones
The title already sounded like a threat. Carlo Conti, always moderate, here, with the idea of having showgirls from the past or those who have ended up in the shadows challenge each other – perhaps hoping to see them pulling their hair – it doesn’t hit the mark. And he apologizes: chapeau, as he would say Loretta Beaki.
The island of the famous
Enough. Why see people fighting mosquitoes, biting into steaks, arguing for no reason, crying? The presenter Veronica Gentiliwith a certain attitude, must convince us that life on the island is real. The diktat, compared to previous years, was: change course. The audience also changed it.
Big brother
Enough, even in this case. Even the tenants of the house are depressing. A machine that no longer even generates ratings (which is always a good excuse for commercial TV), so why continue?
Freeze – Whoever stays still wins
Nicola Savino e Rocío Muñoz Morales they accept the challenge, but the Rai 2 show in which the one who manages to remain still wins is of rare ugliness. But above all, why copy, making it worse, a light show that has made it very popular Stefano De Martinocome Tonight anything is possible?
All’s Fair
Feminine, with big stars (from Glenn Close a Naomi Watts), produced and performed by Kim Kardashian which, as we know, is the enemy of understatement, the super glossy series of Ryan Murphy on Disney +, between jewels and crocodile coats, it hypnotizes. Close, not used to criticism, posted the pot where the bunny was boiling Fatal attraction. A warning to the critics.
The seasons of love
The format conducted by Mara Venier on Rai 1with mature lonely hearts who met thanks to two young people who played them when they were 20 and then decided whether to get to know each other or give up, remains a mystery.
Techtechete top 10
Beautiful and on the rise, she had just won Dancing with the stars, Bianca Guaccero is placed to explain the most loved memory program (with Blob) which unfortunately is distorted. Disastrous result, she talks too much and in the houses they ask themselves: why?
Like a star
The format with Amadeus it doesn’t work on the Nine, even if the competitors are good and he does his thing. But a musical talent show in which the contestants imitate the stars, judged by a jury of famous people, smacks of already seen.
