1999 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1999.

List of years in Italian television
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Events

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  • 23 February: Anna Oxa wins the Sanremo festival with Senza pietà. The show is conducted, for the first time, by Fabio Fazio, sided by the actress Letitia Casta and by the Nobel Prize for Medicine Renato Dulbecco; the presenter achieves a personal success, getting the presence of several international guest stars, even not related to the music, such as Michael Gorbachev and Neil Armstrong. The festival is the most watched program of the year, with 16,234,000 spectators.[1]
  • 26 April: at 6 am, the all-news satellite channel Rai news 24 begins to broadcast.[2]
  • 6 May: The snack thief, first episode of the Montalbano series, is aired on RAI 2.
  • 1 July: the thematic channels RAISat Cinema, Album (material from the RAI archive), Art, Show, Ragazzi (for children) and Gambero Rosso (cooking) make their debut (for a fee) on the satellite platform Tele+ Digitale.[2]
  • 27 July: Rai Way is born. The company owns and manages the RAI broadcasting infrastructure. In the year, RAI effectuates, in Rome, the first digital terrestrial broadcastings.[2]
  • 7 October: the first episode of ’Francamente me ne infischio, with Adriano Celentano, is broadcast. Provocative as usual, the singer alternates musical numbers with a shocking video against the capital punishment, displaying an execution in Guatemala. The show gets 9,6 million viewers.[3]

Mediaset

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  • 3 July - Debut of Momenti di gloria, a series hosted by Mike Bongiorno in which members of the public impersonate their favourite singers.

Other channels

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  • Law 78, regulating Italian pay-tv, is promulgated; it imposes some antitrust rules to contrast Rupert Murdoch's plans for a monopoly in the sector.[2]
  • 30 May: the local televisions network Italia 7 splits into two ones: 7 Gold and Europa 7, belonging to the Abruzzo businessman Francesco Di Stefano.
  • 28 July: A decree of the Ministry of Communications establishes that the national frequencies of Rete 4 are transferred to Europa 7. The rule, which should reduce Mediaset's monopoly of private television, will never be applied, despite a long Di Stefano's legal battle.[4]

Awards

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16. Telegatto award, for the season 1998–1999.

Debuts

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Miniseries

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Serials

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Variety

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  • Al posto tuo (In your place)– talk-show hosted by Alba d’Eusabio ; 7 seasons. Considered a typical example of trash TV, the program is also accused of presenting as real made-up stories; following the controversies, the presenter was replaced by Paola Perego.
  • Cominciamo bene (We start well) – talk show of the morning, hosted by Toni Garrani, Michele Mirabella and various others; 13 seasons (+ 10 seasons of the summer edition and various spin-off).
  • Convenscion – cabaret with Enrico Bertolino and Natasha Stefanenko ; 3 seasons.
  • Festa di classe (Class party) – game show hosted by Amadeus and Pippo Franco; 2 seasons. Two VIP (a man and a woman) must compete with their old schoolmates.
  • Sette per uno (7 x 1) – game show of the summer from the Mirabilandia park, hosted by Gigi Sabani; 3 seasons
  • Sanremo estate (Sanremo in the summer) – musical show, 6 editions.
  • Varietà – anthology of variety from the RAI archive; 5 seasons. It generates two spin-offs (Supervarietà and Fantastico! 50 anni insieme)

News and educational

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  • Correva l’anno (It was the year...) – historical magazine, care of Paolo Mieli.[8]
  • La musica di RAI 3 – magazine of art music; 16 seasons.
  • C’era una volta (Once upon a time) by Silvestro Montanaro – magazine about the problems of the Third World, realized in collaboration with United Nations; 14 seasons.

For children

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  • Melevisione (Apple TV) – show for children, hosted by Danilo Bertazzi and Lorenzo Branchetti; 16 seasons. Initially, it's a simple block programming of cartoons, but soon it evolves in two distinct shows: La Melevisione (a sti-com set in an enchanted wood) and La melevisione e le sue storie (cartoons).[9]

Fininvest

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Serials

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  • Finalmente soli (Alone, at least) – sit-com with Gerry Scotti and Maria Amelia Monti, spin-off of Io e la mamma; 5 seasons and 3 TV-movies. A dentist, who has lived with his mother up to forty, faces for the first time marriage and fatherhood.[10]

Variety

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  • Allegria! – quiz aired for Christmas and hosted by Mike Bongiorno, with VIP contenders answering questions about television history; 3 editions.
  • 3 July - Momenti di gloria (1999-2000)
  • Passaparola – game show hosted by Gerry Scotti, Italian version of The alphabet game; 8 seasons.
  • Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? (Who framed Peter Pan?) – game show and variety with contenders from four to ten years old, hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti; 6 seasons. (The 2005 edition, hosted by Gerry Scotti, has been called Who framed Uncle Gerry?) Italian version of the Spanish Esos locos bajitos[11].
  • Il trucco c’è (There is the make-up) - talk show hosted by Rita dalla Chiesa and the make-up artist Diego dalla Palma; 2 seasons.

Serials

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News and educational

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  • Pressing champions’ league – sport magazine about the matches of UEFA champions League, hosted by Massimo De Luca and Giorgia Rossi; 9 seasons (with a break from 2006 to 2019)
  • TV Moda – fashion magazine, hosted by Jo Squillo; again, on air. Born on the Mediaset channels, it evolves later into a satellite channel of its own., owned by Class Editori.

For children

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Other channels

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  • Anime night ; 11 seasons. Unlike in other Italian televisions, anime are broadcast uncensored for an adult audience. (MTV Italia)
  • Total request Italia – Italian version of Total Request Live ; 11 seasons (MTV Italia)
  • Come Thelma e Louise (As Thelma and Louise) – reality series, hosted by Justine Mattera, showing couples of girls travelling in exotic places; 3 seasons.  (TMC 2 and later Odeon TV)
  • Stargate Linea di confine (Stargate borderline) – program of popular science (actually, of pseudoscience and pseudo-history), initially bound to the Stargate serial, hosted by Ruggeerio Giacobbo and, later, by Valerio Massimo Manfredi ; 9 seasons (TMC).
  • Diretta stadio: ed è subito gol! (later, Diretta studio), talk show commenting live the main football matches, and TG7 sport, sport news programs; both again on air (Italia 7 Gold)
  • Missione relitti (Relic mission)  – magazine about underwater explorations; (Odeon TV)

Television shows

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Drama

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Religious
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Crime
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Miniseries

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  • Gli amici di Sara (The friends of Sara) by Gabriele Muccino; 8 shorts produced by Ministry of Health for a campaign against AIDS and broadcast simultaneously by RAI and Mediaset.
  • Fine secolo (End of the century) – by Gianni Lepre, with Fabrizio Contri, Ana Kanakis and Arnoldo Foà ; 6 episodes; intricate detective story vaguely inspired by the events of the Ferruzzi family.
  • La vita che verrà (The coming life) – by Pasquale Pozzerese, with Valeria Golino, Roberto De Francesco and Margherita Buy; 4 episodes; family saga, showing the Italian history from 1944 to 1960, through the lives of two married couples.

Serial

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For children

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Variety

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  • Francamente me ne infischio (Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn) – musical show with Adriano Celentano and Francesca Neri (see over).
  • GNU (sigle fo Genial, New, Unique) – showcase show for young comic actors, hosted by Pia Klover.
  • 2000 today – show of the end of the year.
  • Su e giù (Up and down) – infotainment show, hosted by Gaia De Laurentis.
  • Troppolitani – cabaret with Antonio Rezza, the comic actor has surreal conversations with passers-by on the streets of Rome.
  • L’ultimo valzer (Last waltz) – spinoff of Anima mia, with Fabio Fazio and Claudio Baglioni.
  • Barracuda – late show with Daniele Luttazzi.

News and educational

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  • Circus – itinerant talk show, set under a circus tent, hosted by Michele Santoro.
  • Ragazzi del 99 (The ‘99 boys) - magazine by Enrico Deaglio.

Mediaset

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Drama

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Crime
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Serial

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Variety

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News and educational

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  • Real TV , eroi per caso (Casual heores) - docu-drama about the dramatic experiences of true persons, hosted by Marco Liorni; the show is deleted after a season, because of a lawsuit for plagiarism by RAI.

Other channels

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Ending this year

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  • Campioni di ballo
  • Chi c’è c’è
  • Colpo di fulmine
  • Due per tre
  • Game boat
  • Giochi senza frontiere
  • Glu Glu
  • Lui e lei
  • Moby Dick
  • Il mondo di Quark
  • Quark speciale
  • Sgarbi quotidiani

Channels

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New channels

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Births

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Deaths

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Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
8 June Corrado Mantoni 74 Italian radio & television host
19 June Mario Soldati 92 Writer and TV author and presenter

References

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  1. ^ Hit (2015-11-15). "Ascolti Story, dalle origini ai giorni nostri: 1999-2000". TvBlog (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  2. ^ a b c d Bruno, Somalvico (25 October 2012). "cronologia radiotelevisiva IV: 1993-2008: 1996-2001". cronologia radiotelevisiva IV. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  3. ^ Venegoni, Marinella (8 October 1999). "Celentano, prediche e canzono". La Stampa. p. 30.
  4. ^ Wagner, Alessandro (2003). Il grande scippo [The great mugging] (in Italian). Editori Riuniti. ISBN 8835954932.
  5. ^ "Commesse". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  6. ^ "Il commissario Montalbano". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  7. ^ "Non lasciamoci più". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  8. ^ "Correva l'anno". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  9. ^ "La Melevisione". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  10. ^ "Finalmente soli". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  11. ^ "Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  12. ^ "Vivere". Mediaset Infinity. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  13. ^ "Finchè c'è ditta c'è speranza". Mediaset Infinity. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  14. ^ "Carmelo Bene - Pinocchio ovvero Lo spettacolo della provvidenza". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  15. ^ "Ester". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  16. ^ "Jesus". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  17. ^ "Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  18. ^ "Ultimo - La sfida". Mediaset Infinity. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
  19. ^ "Anni 60". Mediaset Infinity. Retrieved 2024-06-28.