Canale 5
Encyclopedia
Canale 5 is an Italian
private television network
of Mediaset
, the media branch of Fininvest
. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy
in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978.
Much of its early content came from American television shows dubbed in Italian, a common trait on Italian television today. Mike Bongiorno
, the host of Lascia o raddoppia?
, was also wooed away from RAI
to host an early quiz shows on TeleMilano.
Today Fininvest controls 35% of Mediaset. The logo of Canale 5 was originally formed by the number five beside a long biscione
(a snake
, the ancient symbol of Milan
) spitting a flower. In the eighties the reptile was replaced by a bigger number leaving only a stylized head on the top with the flower. In 2000 Canale 5 launched the Italian version of the Big Brother
franchise, titled Grande Fratello
, the first reality show in Italy. This was the beginning of a new era of television marked by the medium of television referring to itself both as an important part of daily life and treating itself as a member of the family or a close friend, sometimes called as "auto-reference". In 2005, RIS Delitti Imperfetti
was launched, an Italian fiction inspired by CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
. Today there are many Italian fictions and the most famous are: Carabinieri, Distretto di Polizia
, RIS Delitti Imperfetti
and Elisa di Rivombrosa
.
In 2005 news editor Enrico Mentana was replaced by Carlo Rossella.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
private television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
of Mediaset
Mediaset
Mediaset S.p.A., known as Gruppo Mediaset in Italian, is an Italian-based media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country...
, the media branch of Fininvest
Fininvest
Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi's family and managed by Silvio Berlusconi's eldest daughter Marina Berlusconi.-Structure:...
. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978.
Much of its early content came from American television shows dubbed in Italian, a common trait on Italian television today. Mike Bongiorno
Mike Bongiorno
Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno , known as Mike Bongiorno, was an American-born Italian television host. He started his career on Italian TV in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy...
, the host of Lascia o raddoppia?
Lascia o raddoppia?
Lascia o raddoppia? was a game show that aired on Italian television from 1955-1959. It was considered the Italian version of The $64,000 Question....
, was also wooed away from RAI
RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...
to host an early quiz shows on TeleMilano.
Today Fininvest controls 35% of Mediaset. The logo of Canale 5 was originally formed by the number five beside a long biscione
Biscione
The Biscione , also known as the Vipera , is a heraldic charge showing in Argent an Azure serpent in the act of consuming a human; usually a child and sometimes described as a Moor. It has been the emblem of the Italian Visconti family for around a thousand years...
(a snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
, the ancient symbol of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
) spitting a flower. In the eighties the reptile was replaced by a bigger number leaving only a stylized head on the top with the flower. In 2000 Canale 5 launched the Italian version of the Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
franchise, titled Grande Fratello
Big Brother (Italy)
Grande Fratello, the Italian version of reality television franchise Big Brother, began in September 2000, and has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon in Italy...
, the first reality show in Italy. This was the beginning of a new era of television marked by the medium of television referring to itself both as an important part of daily life and treating itself as a member of the family or a close friend, sometimes called as "auto-reference". In 2005, RIS Delitti Imperfetti
RIS Delitti Imperfetti
RIS Delitti Imperfetti is an Italian television series, created in 2004 by Daniele Cesarano, Barbara Petronio and Leonardo Valenti, broadcast since January 2005 on Canale 5...
was launched, an Italian fiction inspired by CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
. Today there are many Italian fictions and the most famous are: Carabinieri, Distretto di Polizia
Distretto di Polizia
Distretto di Polizia is an Italian television series....
, RIS Delitti Imperfetti
RIS Delitti Imperfetti
RIS Delitti Imperfetti is an Italian television series, created in 2004 by Daniele Cesarano, Barbara Petronio and Leonardo Valenti, broadcast since January 2005 on Canale 5...
and Elisa di Rivombrosa
Elisa di Rivombrosa
Elisa di Rivombrosa is an Italian television series....
.
In 2005 news editor Enrico Mentana was replaced by Carlo Rossella.
Variety Shows
- Striscia la notiziaStriscia la notiziaStriscia la notizia is an Italian television program on the Mediaset-controlled Canale 5. Its name in Italian translates as "the news slithers", a probable parody of the slighting italian journalist, submitted to politicians and overwhelmed with shame...
- C'è posta per te (You've got mail)
- Zelig
- Zelig off
- Il senso della vita (The sense of life)
- Uomini e donne (Men and women)
- Ciao DarwinCiao DarwinCiao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece....
- La Corrida
Reality shows
- Grande Fratello (2000-...) (Big BrotherBig Brother (TV series)Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
) - Amici di Maria de Filippi (2002-...) (FameFame (2003 TV series)Fame is a television series that ran on NBC in the summer of 2003. The show was essentially NBC's attempt to duplicate the success of mega-hit American Idol, right down to their selection of judges...
) - Changing Rooms (2004) (Changing RoomsChanging Rooms (TV series)Changing Rooms is a Do It Yourself home improvement show broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC between the years 1996 and 2004. The show was one of a number of home improvement and lifestyle shows popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s...
) - La Fattoria (2005-2006) (The Farm)
- Volere o Volare (2005)
- Vero Amore (2005) (Temptation Island) (True love)
- Unan1mousUnan1mousUnan1mous is an American reality television program that premiered on the Fox Network on March 22, 2006 and ran for one season. The host of the series was J. D. Roth.- Concept :...
(2006) - Reality Circus (2006)
- Armi e Bagagli (2006)
- Uno due tre stalla (2007)
Cancelled Reality shows
- L'uomo dei sogni (2003, only eight episodes) (The Bachelor)
Soap operas
- Beautiful (The Bold and the BeautifulThe Bold and the BeautifulThe Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
) - Centovetrine (The Mall)
- My Life
TV series
- Diagnosis: MurderDiagnosis: MurderDiagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...
(Un detective in corsia) - DocDoc (TV series)Doc is a medical drama/family drama with strong Christian undertones starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy, a Montana doctor who takes a job in a New York City medical clinic. It ran from March 11, 2001 to November 28, 2004 on PAX...
- Family LawFamily Law (TV series)Family Law is a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as divorced lawyer Lynn Holt, who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients...
(In tribunale con Lynn) - The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
- Highlander: The SeriesHighlander: The SeriesHighlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...
(Highlander) - Judging AmyJudging AmyJudging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...
(Giudice Amy) - NYPD
- HouseHouse (TV series)House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
(Dr. House - Medical Division) - from season 3, episode 16 - the previous episodes aired on Italia 1Italia 1Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...
. - The SopranosThe SopranosThe Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...
(I Soprano) - seasons from 1 to 5. Season 6 aired on Italia 1Italia 1Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...
. - Sue Thomas: F.B.EyeSue Thomas: F.B.EyeSue Thomas: F.B.Eye is a Canadian-American television series that premiered in the United States in 2002 and Canada in 2003. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on PAX. In September 2009, Gospel...
(Agente speciale Sue Thomas) - InvasionInvasion (TV series)Invasion is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for only one season beginning in September 2005. Somewhat similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the show told the story of the aftermath of a hurricane in which water-based creatures infiltrate a small Florida town and...
- The TudorsThe TudorsThe Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
(I Tudors - Scandali a corte) - Dirty Sexy MoneyDirty Sexy MoneyDirty Sexy Money is an American prime time drama series created by Craig Wright, which ran on the ABC from September 26, 2007 to August 8, 2009. The series was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Berlanti Television and Gross Entertainment...
- Angela's EyesAngela's EyesAngela's Eyes is an American drama that premiered on July 16, 2006 on Lifetime TV and ran for 13 episodes. The show aired Sundays at 10 pm. Lifetime announced that the show would not be picked up for a second season....
- ParenthoodParenthood (2010 TV series)Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims and produced by Imagine Television and Universal Media Studios. The first season premiered on March 2, 2010 on NBC...
- Cougar TownCougar TownCougar Town is an American television sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make...
- The united states of taraThe United States of TaraUnited States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which began airing on Showtime in 2009. The series follows the life of Tara , a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder....
Cartoons/Anime
- Beethoven (Beethoven (TV series)Beethoven (TV series)Beethoven is an animated sitcom, loosely based on the 1992 motion picture of the same name. The series was produced by Northern Lights Entertainment Universal Animation Studios and Universal Media Studios, and aired for one season on CBS, with 24 half-hour episodes produced.-Premise:Unlike the...
) - Siamo quelli di Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills TeensBeverly Hills TeensBeverly Hills Teens is an animated children's television program which debuted in 1987, animated by DiC Entertainment. The namesake teenagers have exaggerated wealth, and face stereotypical teenage concerns. They represent a variety of European backgrounds. There are sixty-five episodes all in one...
) - Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) (two seasons)
- Pippo e Menelao (Spiff and HerculesSpiff and HerculesSpiff and Hercules is the English translation of a French comic strip titled Pif et Hercule, featuring an anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog and a black-white cat who, despite being best friends, are constantly fighting in a friendship/hate relationship...
) - L'ispettore Gadget (Inspector GadgetInspector GadgetInspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted cyborg detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr...
) - Batman, cavaliere della notte (The New Batman AdventuresThe New Batman AdventuresThe New Batman Adventures is the successor to Batman: The Animated Series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Although bearing different character designs and animation styles, both shows take place in the same continuity, with TNBA set two years after BTAS. The series aired on The WB from...
) - I Puffi (The SmurfsThe Smurfs (1981 TV series)The Smurfs is an American animated television series that aired on NBC from September 12, 1981 to August 25, 1990...
) - Snorky (Snorks)
- The Real Ghostbusters (The Real GhostbustersThe Real GhostbustersThe Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "The Real" was added to the title after a dispute with...
) - Widget, un alieno per amico (Widget the World Watcher)
- The Mask (The Mask: The Animated SeriesThe Mask: The Animated SeriesThe Mask: The Animated Series is a television animated series based on the comic book superhero, The Mask, but is a sequel to the 1994 film adaptation. The show ran for three seasons, from August 12, 1995 to March 8, 1997, and spawned its own short-run comic book series, Adventures of The Mask....
) - La fabbrica dei mostri (Creepy CrawlersCreepy Crawlers (TV series)Creepy Crawlers is an joint-venture between American and French animated series from 1994, produced by: Saban Entertainment.-Origins:The Creepy Crawlers TV Show was based on ToyMax's Creepy Crawlers Activity toy. A line of 12 action figures were made by ToyMax in conjunction with the show, as well...
) - Iznogoud - Chi la fa l'aspetti (IznogoudIznogoudIznogoud |French]] accent) is a French comics series featuring an eponymous character, created by the comics writer René Goscinny and comics artist Jean Tabary...
) - Mr. Magoo (Mr. MagooMr. MagooQuincy Magoo is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem...
) - Alf (AlfAlf: The Animated SeriesALF: The Animated Series was an animated cartoon spin-off based on the live-action Sitcom series ALF. It premiered on September 26, 1987 and ran for 26 episodes.-Synopsis:...
) - Robinson Bignè (Robinson Sucroë)
- Foofur superstar (FoofurFoofurFoofur is a children's animated series made by Hanna-Barbera and Freddy Monnickendam. It aired on NBC from 1986 to 1988. The protagonist and title character was a skinny blue dog. The animated series was produced in part by William Hanna...
) - Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (TV series)Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (TV series)Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions and Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS...
) - Tartarughe Ninja alla riscossa (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 animated series))
- I Simpson (The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
)
Italian fiction
- Caro Maestro (Dear Teacher) - 2 seasons (1995, 1996)
- La dottoressa Giò (Doctor Giò) - 2 seasons (1998, 1999)
- Amico mio 2 (My Friend) - 1 season(1998)
- Ciao professore (Hi teacher!) - 1 season (1999)
- Valeria medico legale (Medical examiner Valeria) - 2 seasons (2000, 2002)
- Distretto di Polizia (Police District) - 9 seasons (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Sei Forte Maestro (Teacher, you're great!) - 2 seasons (2001, 2001)
- Il Bello delle Donne (The Beauty of Women) - 3 seasons (2001, 2002, 2003)
- Ma il portiere non c'è mai? (But the caretaker is never there?) - 1 season (2002)
- CuoreCuoreCuore is Italian term for "heart". It may refer to:* Heart * Heart * Daihatsu Cuore* Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, particle physics facility in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso...
(Heart) - 1 season (2002) - Carabinieri - 7 seasons (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Elisa di Rivombrosa (Elisa of Rivombrosa) - 2 seasons (2003, 2005)
- Le Stagioni del cuore (Seasons of the Heart) - 1 season (2004)
- Cuore contro cuore (Heart against Heart) - 1 season (2005)
- RIS Delitti ImperfettiRIS Delitti ImperfettiRIS Delitti Imperfetti is an Italian television series, created in 2004 by Daniele Cesarano, Barbara Petronio and Leonardo Valenti, broadcast since January 2005 on Canale 5...
(R.I.S. - Imperfect Crimes) - 4 seasons (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) - Un ciclone in famiglia (Family Storm) - 4 seasons (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
- Caterina e le sue figlie (Caterina and her daughters) - 3 season (2005, 2007, 2010)
- Ricomincio da me (I start from myself again) - 1 season (2005)
- Questa è la mia terra (This is my land) - 2 season (2006, 2008)
- I Cesaroni - 3 seasons (2006, 2008, 2009)
- I Liceali - 2 seasons (2008, 2009)
Talk Shows
- Mattino CinqueMattino CinqueMattino cinque is an Italian infotainment television program. It airs every morning, from monday to friday, on Canale 5 and reruns on Mediaset Plus. It is produced in collaboration with Videonews....
- Pomeriggio CinquePomeriggio CinquePomeriggio Cinque is an Italian entertainment television news program broadcast every afternoon on the Italian television channel Canale 5, with reruns on Mediaset Plus and Mediaset Extra....
- Domenica CinqueDomenica CinqueDomenica Cinque is an Italian entertainment television news program broadcast every sunday on Canale 5 and rerun on Mediaset Plus and Mediaset Extra. It is produced in collaboration with Videonews....
- Mai dire... (Never say...)
- Maurizio Costanzo Show
News
- TG5TG5TG5 is the brand for Italian TV channel of Mediaset network Canale 5's news programmes. They are shown domestically on Canale 5 and Mediaset Plus several times throughout the day. The audience of this newscast, notably in its 08:00 PM edition, has by far the highest audience among commercial TVs...
- VerissimoVerissimo (TV show)Verissimo, initially titled Verissimo - Tutti i colori della cronaca is an Italian entertainment television news program covering events and celebrities which debuted on 1996 on Canale 5...
- Terra! (Earth!)
- MatrixMatrix (talk show)Matrix is an Italian news program and talks show television, broadcasted on Canale 5 and rerun on Mediaset Plus. It is a rival program of RAI flagship news program Porta a Porta....