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This is a list of [[Italian television]] related events from 2000.

==Events==

=== RAI ===

* '''12 January''': in an episode of ''[[Porta a Porta]]'', the two "[[Montecastrilli]] lovers" (a married woman and a teen-ager, protagonists of an elopement in Germany) tell their story to [[Bruno Vespa]], for a remuneration of 30 million liras. Despite the controversies, the show gets 5&nbsp;million 266,000 viewers.<ref>((Cite web|title=Amanti in tv Bruno Vespa sotto tiro – la Repubblica.it|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/01/14/amanti-in-tv-bruno-vespa-sotto-tiro.html|access-date=17 May 2021|website=Archivio – la Repubblica.it|language=it))</ref>
* '''17 February''': Roberto Zaccaria and Pier Luigi Celli are elected, respectively, president and CEO of RAI.<ref name=":0">((Cite web|last=Bruno|first=Somalvico|date=25 October 2012|title=cronologia radiotelevisiva IV: 1993–2008: 1996–2001|url=http://cronoradiotv4.blogspot.com/2012/10/1996-2001.html|url-status=live|access-date=17 May 2021|website=cronologia radiotelevisiva IV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517144744/http://cronoradiotv4.blogspot.com/2012/10/1996-2001.html |archive-date=17 May 2021 ))</ref>
*'''21–26 February''': [[Sanremo Music Festival 2000|50th Sanremo Festival]], hosted by [[Fabio Fazio]] and won by the band [[Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel|Avion Travel]] with ''Sentimento''; the final evening gets 18.699.000 viewers. [[Jovanotti]] performs, out of competition, the rap ''Cancella il debito'', addressed to the Prime Minister [[Massimo D'Alema|Massimo D’Alema]], and for this is charged of undue politic propaganda.<ref name=":1">((Cite book|title=Almanacco Epoca 2000|publisher=Mondadori|year=2001|location=Milan))</ref> 
*'''23 June''': end of the "kids TV", the afternoon space traditionally reserved by [[Rai 1]] to the youngest ones. The show for children ''Solletico'' is cancelled for low ratings and substituted by a program of gossip (''La vita in diretta'').
*'''2 July.:''' The [[UEFA Euro 2000 Final]] match between Italy and France teams gets the highest audience of the year, with 21.330.000 viewers and an 81.1% share.<ref name=":2">((Cite web|last=Bruno|first=Somalvico|date=25 October 2012|title=cronologia radiotelevisiva IV: 1993–2008: 1996–2001|url=http://cronoradiotv4.blogspot.com/2012/10/1996-2001.html|url-status=live|access-date=18 May 2021|website=cronologia radiotelevisiva IV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517144744/http://cronoradiotv4.blogspot.com/2012/10/1996-2001.html |archive-date=17 May 2021 ))</ref>
*'''28 September''': the [[TG1]] broadcasts some crude images about the pedophilic traffic between Italy and Russia. Because the protests of right-wing politicians included the president of the RAI supervisory commission, [[Mario Landolfi]], the director [[Gad Lerner]] (in charge for just three months) is forced to resign.<ref name=":1" /> 
*'''1. October:''' on air, Gad Lerner confirmis his resignation; he admits his error but, in turn, accuses Landolfi to have solicited by a letter the hiring of a journalist. In place of Lerner, Albino Longhi becomes, for the third time, TG1 director.<ref name=":1" />
*'''18 December''': guest of ''[[Porta a Porta]]'', [[Silvio Berlusconi]] exposes his program of big public works, tracking on the map of Italy the designed infrastructures. The show arouses the usual controversies for the partiality of the host Bruno Vespa to the Italian right-wing leader.<ref>((Cite web|last=Barbacetto|first=Gianni|date=26 September 2003|title=Grandi opere col trucco|url=http://www.societacivile.it/primopiano/articoli_pp/grandi_opere.html|url-status=live|website=Società civile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021118111147/http://www.societacivile.it:80/primopiano/articoli_pp/grandi_opere.html |archive-date=18 November 2002 ))</ref>

=== Mediaset ===

* '''22 February''': The ''par condicio'' law, ruling the political communication in TV, is approved: the televisions, public or private, must give equal space to every political subject; the [[political ads]] and the presence in the variety shows of candidates in elections are forbidden. The law, intended moreover to limit the politic partiality of the [[Mediaset]] televisions, is, for obvious reasons, harshly criticized by [[Silvio Berlusconi]] and the [[Pole for Freedoms]].<ref name=":0" />
*'''14 September''' – The [[Grande Fratello|Italian version of ''Big Brother'']] debuts. The show is aired, in anthological form, by [[Canale 5]], and integrally, by the satellite platform [[Stream TV|Stream]] and the Internet channel Jumpy. The 19, there is the first scandal: two contenders ([[Pietro Taricone]] and Cristina Pievani), hidden behind a sofa, have sexual intercourse with cameras on. In November, another contender, Marina La Rosa, just after leaving the seclusion, poses naked on the ''[[Panorama (magazine)|Panorama]]'' cover.<ref name=":1" />
*'''12 October''': a [[TG4 (TV program)|TG4]] troupe films the [[2000 Ramallah lynching|Ramallah lynching]]; the gruesome images go around the world. After a letter of the RAI correspondent Riccardo Cristiano to [[Al-Hayat al-Jadida]], that attributes the footage to an Italian concurrent, Mediaset must withdraw its troupe from Jerusalem to avoid reprisals. Cristiano is, in his turn, disowned and recalled by RAI.<ref name=":1" />
*'''21 December''' – The [[Grande Fratello (season 1)|first season]] of ''[[Grande Fratello]]'' is won by Cristina Plevani; the moral winner, however, is the third classified, the culturist Pietro Taricone, who exploits the gained popularity to begin a career as actor. The last episode is seen by 18 million and a half viewers.<ref name=":1" />

=== Other channels ===

* '''February''': on the satellite platform D+, birth of the channel [[Nuvola61|Nuvolari]], focused on motorship.<ref name=":2" />
* '''March''': [[Rete A]] breaks the collaboration with [[MTV Italia]] and sign an agreement with the German musical channel [[VIVA (German TV channel)|VIVA]]. The 22 May MTV Italia transmigrates on TMC 2.
* '''April''': [[Rupert Murdoch]] gets the control of the satellite platform [[Stream TV]], ousting the Italian associates ([[Vittorio Cecchi Gori]] and [[Telecom Italia]]). In the year, Stream expands its offer, with the birth of new channels ([[National Geographic (American TV channel)|National Geographic]], Comedy Life, [[Disney XD (Italian TV channel)|Fox Kids]], Duel TV, Roma Channel) and broadcasts integrally ''[[Grande Fratello (season 1)|Grande fratello]]'', with great public success. However, D+ maintains the primate in the field, with one million subscribers (the double of the Stream's ones).
* '''June''': Tele+ makes the first experimental [[DTTV]] broadcastings in Italy, limited to the cities of La Spezia, Brescia and Palermo.<ref>((Cite web|date=4 February 2009|title=La pay tv in Italia: le tappe di 18 anni di luci e ombre|url=https://www.eurosat-online.it/la-pay-tv-in-italia-le-tappe-di-18-anni-di-luci-e-ombre/|access-date=20 May 2021|website=Eurosat|language=it-IT))</ref>
* '''6 August''': Roberto Colanino, president of [[Gruppo TIM|Telecom Italia]], buys [[Tele Monte Carlo|TMC]] and TMC2 by [[Vittorio Cecchi Gori|Vitttorio Cecchi Gori]] for one thousand billion liras and becomes the second tycoon of the private Italian television. The operation, that breaks the law about telecommunications, is sustained by the [[Democrats of the Left]] and opposed by the Pole for Freedoms and [[Italy of Values]].<ref name=":1" />
* '''1 December''': Retemia stops to broadcast; its frequenceis are given to the channel of home shopping H.O.T. (later, Home Shopping Europe).

== Awards ==
17. [[Telegatto]] award, for the season 1999–2000.

* Show of the year: [[Striscia la notizia]] (for Italy, awarded also as best satirical show) and [[Walker, Texas Ranger|Walker Texas Ranger]] (for abroad).
* Man and woman of the year: Luca Laurenti, [[Simona Ventura]] and [[Giorgio Panariello]] as revelation of the year.
* Best TV movie: [[Le ali della vita]].
* Best serial: [[Un medico in famiglia]] (for Italy), 
* Best soap opera: [[Vivere (TV series)|Vivere]].
* Best quiz: ''Passaparola''.
* Best variety: ''Buona domenica''.
* Best talk show: ''C’è posta per te''.
* Best event: ''Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo show''.
* Best music show: [[Sarabanda]]
* Best magazine: ''La macchina del tempo''.
* Best sport magazine: [[Quelli che... il Calcio|Quelli che… il calcio]].
* Best show for children: [[The Simpsons]].
* Special awards: ''Trenta ore per la vita'' (for the service TV), Mrs. Emma Baratto (reader of ''Sorrisi e Canzoni''), [[George Clooney]] (for the cinema in TV), [[James Coburn]] (lifetime achievement) and the Pediatric Association for the Children with AIDS.

==Debuts==

=== Rai ===

==== Serials ====

* ''[[Don Matteo]]'' – detective comedy, produced by Lux Vide; with [[Terence Hill]] as a country parish, amateurish detective, [[Nino Frassica]] and [[Flavio Insinna]]; 12 seasons (until now). The serial, light and imbued of good feelings, is, after [[Inspector Montalbano (TV series)|''Inspector Montalbano'']], the greatest success of the RAI fiction in the 2000s.<ref>((Cite web|title=Don Matteo|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/donmatteo|access-date=27 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
* ''[[Sospetti]]'' ("Suspicions") – by Luigi Perelli and Gianni Lepre, with Sebastiano Somma as the deputy attorney Luca Bartoli, [[Isabella Ferrari]] and [[Remo Girone]]; 3 seasons. The serial resumes the formula of ''[[La piovra]]'' (a solitary hero fights against the corruption of the society), transferred from Sicily to the intrigues of the North Italy upper class; the second season gets 9 million viewers for episode.
* ''[[La squadra]]'' ("The team") – procedural set in a [[Naples]] police station, with [[Massimo Bonetti]], [[Renato Carpentieri]] and [[Massimo Wertmuller]]; 8 seasons.<ref>((Cite web |title=La Squadra |url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/lasquadra |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=RaiPlay |language=it))</ref>
* ''Tommy e Oscar'' – cartoon by [[Iginio Straffi]], with a kid and an alien as protagonists; 2 seasons.

==== Variety ====

* ''Libero'' ("Free!") – variety focused on the prank calls, hosted by [[Teo Mammucari|Teo Mammuccari]] and others; 7 seasons. The show is charged of vulgarity and sexism for the use of the soubrette [[Flavia Vento]], forced to stay constantly under a glass desk and repeatedly humiliated.<ref>((Cite web|title=Libero|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/libero|access-date=15 March 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''La prova del cuoco'' ("The cook's test") – cooking show, Italian version of ''[[Ready Steady Cook]]'', hosted by [[Antonella Clerici]] and [[Elisa Isoardi]]; 20 seasons.<ref>((Cite web|title=La prova del cuoco|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/laprovadelcuoco|access-date=27 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Una voce per padre Pio'' ("A voice for [[Padre Pio]]") – benefit concert, broadcast every year from Santissima Annunziata square in [[Pietrelcina|Pietralcina]]; again on air.
*''Affari di cuore'' ("Heart affairs") – reality show hosted by [[Federica Panicucci]]; 2 seasons. In every episode, the fidelity of an engaged couple is tried by two "tempters".
*''Novecento'' – mix of talk show, quiz and variety about the history of the Twentieth century, hosted by [[Pippo Baudo]]; 6 seasons.
*''Quiz show, l'occasione di una vita'' – Italian version of ''[[It's Your Chance of a Lifetime]],'' hosted by [[Amadeus (presenter)|Amadeus]]; 2 seasons. The show, very similar to ''[[Chi vuol essere milionario?]]''  is closed because a Mediaset's complaint for plagiarism''.''
*''[[Top of the Pops]]'', Italian version of the BBC show; 7 seasons (4 in RAI, 3 in Mediaset).
*''Torno sabato'' ("Saturday I come back") – traveling musical show, hosted by [[Giorgio Panariello|Giorgio Paneriello]]; 3 seasons.

==== News and educationals ====

* ''Easy driver'' – magazine about motors, again on air.<ref>((Cite web|title=Easy Driver|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/easydriver|access-date=27 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Linea Bianca'' ("White line") – magazine about life in the mountains, again on air.<ref>((Cite web|title=Linea Bianca|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/lineabianca|access-date=28 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Il raggio verde'' ("The green ray"), talk show, and ''Sciuscià'', magazine, both hosted by [[Michele Santoro]]. Because its leftist orientation, ''Sciuscià'' is closed after 2 seasons, at the express request of prime minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]] who, the year before, had attacked Santoro with a clamorous phone-call on air during an episode of ''Il raggio verde''.
*''Stracult'' – magazine about Italian cinema, focused on the popular genres and the [[B movie|B-movies]], care of Marco Giusti; it includes also satirical sketches and parodic fictions; again on air.<ref>((Cite web|title=Stracult|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/stracult|access-date=28 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Tutti a scuola'' ("Everybody at the school") – ceremony for the official opening of the Italian [[school year]], with the presence of the [[President of Italy]] and the [[Minister of Education (Italy)|Minister of Education.]]<ref>((Cite web|title=Tutti a scuola|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/tuttiascuola|access-date=31 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta'' ("Ulysses, the pleasure of discovering") – informative magazine about history, art and culture, hosted by [[Alberto Angela]].<ref>((Cite web|title=Ulisse: il piacere della scoperta|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/ulisseilpiaceredellascoperta|access-date=31 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>

===Mediaset===

==== Miniseries ====

* ''[[Le ali della vita]]'' ("The wings of the life") by Stefano Reali; 2 seasons. The series tells, in the ways of an old-fashioned melodrama, the battle between a bigoted and scheming nun (Virna Lisi) and a free-spirited music teacher (Sabina Ferilli), fought first in a female college and then in an orphanage.<ref>((Cite web|title=Le ali della vita|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/fiction/lealidellavita_SE000000000454|access-date=3 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>
*''[[Sei forte, maestro]]'' ("Teacher, you are great") comedy with [[Emilio Solfrizzi]], Gaia De Laurentis and [[Gastone Moschin]]; 2 seasons. A middle-aged man with a troubled family situation finds the serenity working as primary school teacher and the love in a colleague.<ref>((Cite web|title=Sei forte maestro|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/fiction/seifortemaestro_SE000000001063|access-date=4 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>

==== Serials ====

* ''[[Distretto di Polizia]]'' ("Police district") – procedural set in Rome, with [[Isabella Ferrari]], [[Giorgio Tirabassi]] and [[Ricky Memphis]], one of the greatest success of the Mediaset fiction; 11 seasons.<ref>((Cite web|title=Distretto di polizia|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/fiction/distrettodipolizia_SE000000000217|access-date=3 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref> 
* ''[[Don Luca]]'' – sitcom with Luca Laurenti in the title role (an excentric Catholic priest) and [[Paolo Ferrari (actor)|Paolo Ferrari]]; 2 seasons and a spin-off (''[[Don Luca c'è|Don Luca c’è]]'').
*''[[Valeria medico legale]]'' ("Valeria the coroner") – forensic crime drama with [[Claudia Koll]] and [[Giulio Base]]; 2 seasons.

==== Variety ====
*14 September – ''[[Grande Fratello]]'' ([[Canale 5]]) (2000–present; see over)<ref>((Cite web|title=Grande Fratello 2019|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/programmi-tv/grandefratello_SE000000000493|access-date=7 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>
*''C’è posta per te'' ("You"ve got mail") – people show hosted by [[Maria De Filippi]]; 21 seasons (till now), Italian record for such kind of program. The hostess organizes a reunion in studio between two persons (friends, former lovers, relatives) separated by life; the invitation letters to the show are delivered by actors dressed as postmen, sometimes VIP as the famous goalkeeper [[Walter Zenga]]. The format, also if ravaged by critics, has got a constant public success in Italy and has been largely imitated abroad.<ref>((Cite web|title=C'è Posta per Te 2021|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/programmi-tv/cpostaperte_SE000000000089|access-date=5 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>  
*''[[Chi vuol essere milionario?]]'' – game show, Italian version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'', hosted (for 1706 episodes, world record for the format) by [[Gerry Scotti]], 15 seasons and a spin-off.<ref>((Cite web|title=Chi vuol essere milionario 2020|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/programmi-tv/chivuolesseremilionario_SE000000000622|access-date=5 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>
*''Ieri e oggi in TV'' ("Yesterday and today in TV") – anthology of various material (moreover musical) from the Mediaset archives; again on air.<ref>((Cite web|title=Ieri e Oggi in Tv|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/programmi-tv/ierieoggiintv/ierieoggiintv_SE000000000712,ST000000001236|access-date=6 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>
*''Premiata teleditta'', cabaret with the comic quartet [[Pino Insegno|La premiata ditta]], parodying the other Mediaset programs; 4 seasons.
*''I ragazzi irresistibili'' ("The irresistible boys") – musical show with the singers, aged but still perky, [[Rita Pavone]], [[Adriano Pappalardo]], [[Little Tony (singer)|Little Tony]] and [[Equipe 84|Maurizio Vandelli]]; 2 seasons.

==== News and educational ====
*''Celebrità'' ("Celebrities") – magazine about gossip, with Silvana Giacobini; 2 seasons.
*''Sipario del TG4'' ("[[TG4 (TV program)|TG4]] curtain") – magazine focused on gossip, ideated by [[Emilio Fede]]; on air till 2015.
*''Terra!'' ("Land!") – magazine of investigating journalism, directed by Toni Capuozzo, on air until 2017; it's considered the most professional among the Mediaset news programs.<ref>((Cite web|title=Terra! 2017/2018|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/programmi-tv/terra_SE000000000098|access-date=7 June 2021|website=Mediaset Infinity))</ref>

=== MTV Italia ===

* ''MTV Mad: Chi è Gip?'' ("Who is Gip?") – variety characterized by a demented and also outrageous humor, hosted by Giampiero Cutrino (Gip); 3 seasons.
* ''MTV Trip'' – reality show with the comic duo [[Paolo Kessisoglu|Luca e Paolo]] driving around Europe on a hearse; 4 seasons.
* ''Say What'' – Italian version of [[Say What? Karaoke]], hosted by [[Marco Maccarini]]; on air till 2002.

=== Other channels ===

* ''Sesso, parlano le donne'' ([[Telemontecarlo|TMC]]) ("Women speak about sex") – talk-show bound to the serial ''[[Sex and the City]]'', hosted by Anna Pettinelli; 2 seasons. 
*''Le battagliere'' ("The pugnacious women"), on the [[Apulia]] channel Antenna Sud, and ''Catene'' (Chains), on the rival Telenorba – sit-coms in [[Bari dialect]], both characterized by black humor and grotesque social satire. They get a noticeable success with the local public and last, respectively, for 4 and 6 seasons.

===International===
*6 January – ((flagicon|USA)) ''[[Futurama]]'' ([[Italia 1]]) (1999–2013)
*7 April – ((flagicon|UK)) ''[[Kipper (TV series)|Kipper]]'' (Italia 1) (1997–2000)
*11 June – ((flagicon|USA)) ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (Italia 1) (1997–2003)
*4 August – ((flagicon|USA))/((flagicon|CAN)) ''[[Dragon Tales]]'' (Italia 1) (1999–2005)
*17 September – ((flagicon|FRA)) ''[[Oggy and the Cockroaches]]'' (Italia 1) (1998–present)
*16 October – ((flagicon|USA)) ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' ([[Rai 2]]) (1998–2005)
*((flagicon|USA))/((flagicon|CAN)) ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'' ([[Cartoon Network (Italian TV channel)|Cartoon Network]]) (1999–2009)
*((flagicon|USA)) ''[[The New Woody Woodpecker Show]]'' (Italia 1) (1999–2002)

==Television shows==
The year of the [[Great Jubilee]] is characterized, on the Italian little screen, by a spread, both in RAI and Mediaset, of religious fictions, often produced by [[Ettore Bernabei]]'s Lux Vide, usually naive and hagiographic products but appreciated by the large public.

=== RAI ===

==== Drama ====

* ''I, Tigi, Canto per Ustica'' ("Song for Ustica") – monologue by [[Marco Paolini]], played on the twentieth anniversary of the [[Itavia Flight 870]].<ref>((Cite web|date=5 July 2020|title=Canto per Ustica, 2000 -|url=http://www.teche.rai.it/2020/07/canto-ustica-2000/|access-date=7 June 2021|website=Rai Teche|language=it-IT))</ref>
* ''Il furto del tesoro'' ("The robbery of the treasure") – by Alberto Sironi, with [[Luca Zingaretti]], script by Laura Toscano; 2 parts. In the Twenties, a cunning inspector of the fascist police foils a heist to the [[St. Peter's Basilica|S. Peter's Basilica]].
*''La stanza della fotografia'' ("The room of the photo") – thriller about domestic violence by Antonio Bonifacio, with [[Cinzia Monreale]].
*''Vola, Sciuscìù'' ("Fly, Sciusciù") – by [[Joseph Sargent]], with [[Lino Banfi]] in his first dramatic role. In [[Apulia]], during the [[Military history of Italy during World War II|World War II]], a mentally disable man becomes a hero saving three allied paratroopers.<ref>((Cite web|title=Vola, Sciusciù|url=https://www.luxvide.it/vola-sciusciu/|url-status=live|access-date=2 June 2021|website=Lux Vide S.p.A.|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812035404/https://www.luxvide.it/vola-sciusciu/ |archive-date=12 August 2020 ))</ref>
*''Il rumore dei ricordi'' ("The sound of memories") – by Paolo Poeti, from the Maria Venturi's novel, with [[Elena Sofia Ricci]] and Marco Bonini; 2 parts. A free-spirited mature woman falls in love for a younger man.
*''Una storia qualunque'' ("A usual story") – by Alberto Simone, with [[Nino Manfredi]] and [[Agnese Nano]]; 2 parts. After thirty years of undue prison, an aged man tries to clear his name and to recuperate a link with the sons.<ref>((Cite web|title=Una Storia Qualunque|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/unastoriaqualunque|access-date=2 June 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>

===== Religious dramas =====

*''San Paolo'' – by [[Roger Young (director)|Roger Young]], with [[Johannes Brandrup]] in the [[Paul the Apostle|title role]] and [[Ennio Fantastichini]] as [[Saint Peter|St. Peter]]; 2 parts. Twelfth chapter of the LUX VIDE's Bible project.<ref>((Cite web|title=San Paolo|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/sanpaolo|access-date=16 March 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Un dono semplice'' ("A simple gift") by [[Maurizio Zaccaro]], with [[F. Murray Abraham]] and [[Virna Lisi]]; a rampant businessman changes his values after his wife's death and the encounter with a nun, missionary in India.<ref>((Cite web|last=mauriziozaccaro|date=17 September 2018|title=UN DONO SEMPLICE|url=https://mauriziozaccaro.org/2018/09/17/un-dono-semplice/|access-date=26 May 2021|website=MAURIZIO ZACCARO|language=it-IT))</ref>
*''Lourdes'' – by Lodovico Gasparini, with Angéle Osinski, [[Alessandro Gassmann]] and [[Stefania Rocca]]; 2 parts. The movie interlaces the stories of [[Bernadette Soubirous]] and of a modern journalist enquiring about the [[Lourdes apparitions]].<ref>((Cite web|title=Lourdes|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/lourdes|access-date=29 May 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''Padre Pio: between heaven and heart'' – by [[Giulio Base]], with [[Michele Placido]] in the [[Padre Pio|title role]] and [[Barbora Bobuľová|Barbora Bobulova]]; 2 parts.<ref>((Cite web|title=Padre Pio: tra cielo e terra|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/padrepiotracieloeterra|access-date=3 June 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>

==== Comedy ====

* ''Cornetti al miele'' (the Italian title can mean both "honey croissants" and "honey extramarital affairs") – spicy comedy by [[Sergio Martino]], with [[Antonio Catania]], [[Carla Signoris]] and [[Lando Buzzanca]].
* ''Come quando fuori piove'' (As when it's raining outside, meaningless sentence, used in Italy to remember the [[Playing card suit|card suits]]) – by [[Mario Monicelli]], with [[Stefano Accorsi]] and [[Franca Valeri]]; 2 parts. The quiet life of the little town [[Cittadella]] is upset by the chase to the winning lottery ticket, lost at a poker game. 
*''Piovuto dal cielo'' ("Fell out of the sky") – by Josè Maria Sanchez, with [[Lino Banfi]], [[Ben Gazzara]], [[Stefania Sandrelli]] and [[Cristiana Capotondi]]; 2 parts. Two men, a janitor and a dentist, divided by the class differences and by sad family affairs, are forced to collaborate for sake of an abandoned child.<ref>((Cite web|title=Piovuto dal cielo, Italia, 2000|url=https://www.fctp.it/movie_item.php?id=175|access-date=2 June 2021|website=www.fctp.it))</ref>

==== Miniseries ====

* ''Nebbia in Val Padana'' ("Fog in the Po Valley") – nonsense comedy by [[Felice Farina]] with [[Cochi e Renato]] (reunited after 25 years of separation) as an improbable couple of private eyes.<ref>((Cite web|title=Nebbia in Valpadana|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/nebbiainvalpadana|access-date=7 June 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
*''La bicicletta blu'' ("The blue bicycle") – by Thierry Binisti, from the [[Régine Deforges]]' novel, with [[Laetitia Casta]] and Silvia De Santis; 3 chapters, coproduced with France. It's almost a remake of ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the wind]]'', whose plot is transposed in [[France during World War II]].
*''Vite bruciacchiate'' ("Scorched lives") – by Carlo Arturo Signon, with [[Elio e le Storie Tese]] and [[Renzo Arbore]]; 4 episodes. The series, that tells the absurd adventures of an Italian rock band looking for success in the USA, was aired after midnight, with very low ratings, and no more replied or distributed in home video; despite its invisibility, in the years it has become a cult-object for the fans of [[EELST]].

==== Serials ====

* ''Ricominciare'' ("Starting over") – first RAI soap-opera, set in [[Perugia]], about the vicissitudes of two families (the publishers Vallesi and the middle-class Ruggeri). Aired daily, it's abruptly stopped after a single season for low ratings.

==== Music ====

* ''La Traviata à Paris'' – by [[Giuseppe Patroni Griffi|Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi]], with Eteri Gvazava and [[José Cura|Josè Cura]]; the [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]'s [[La traviata|opera]] is broadcast live from the real places of the story in Paris (also if the action is transposed in the year 1900); second chapter of the series ''La via della musica'' ("The music way").

==== Variety ====

* ''Greed'' – Italian version of the [[Greed (game show)|Fox game show]], hosted by [[Luca Barbareschi]].
* ''Tutti gli zeri del mondo'' ("All the zeros of the world") – musical show from [[Mirabilandia (Italy)|Mirabilandia]], hosted by [[Renato Zero]].
* ''Tutti in piazza per capodanno'' ("Everybody in the square for New Years Eve") – show for the end of the year, hosted from [[Verona]] by [[Milly Carlucci]]; during the event, the new value, the [[Euro]], is presented to the Italians.
* ''Zitti tutti, parlano loro'' ("Shut! They speak") – talk show with children, Italian version of ''[[Kids Say the Darndest Things]],'' hosted by [[Carlo Conti]].

==== News and educational ====

* ''Sermonti legge Dante'' ("Sermonti reads [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]") – complete and commented reading of the [[Divine Comedy]] by the writer Vittorio Sermonti, on the background of the [[Trajan's Market]] and the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]]; direction by [[Marco Risi]].<ref>((Cite web|title=Sermonti legge Dante|url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/sermontileggedante|access-date=15 March 2021|website=RaiPlay|language=it))</ref>
* ''Beat graffiti - Sulle tracce di Jack Kerouac'' ("On the trail of [[Jack Kerouac]]") - with Emanuele Bevilacqua and Dianne Jones, reportage about the [[Beat Generation|Beat generation]].<ref>((Cite web |title=Beat Graffiti - Sulle tracce di Jack Kerouac |url=https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/beatgraffiti-sulletraccedijackkerouac |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=RaiPlay |language=it))</ref>

=== Mediaset ===

==== Comedy and drama ====
*''Dov'è mio figlio?'' ("Where is my son?") – by Lucio Gaudino, with [[Laura Morante]]; the broadcast of the movie, about the research of a kidnapped child in Cuba, curiously coincides with the [[Elián González]] affair.
*''La casa delle beffe'' ("The jests' house") – by [[Pier Francesco Pingitore]], with [[Anna Falchi]] and [[Pippo Franco]]; 2 parts. A Tuscan villa is the theatre, in various historical ages, of eight jests (plus one, in the year 2000, which frames the others).
*''Operazione Odissea'' ("Operation Odissey") by [[Claudio Fragasso]], with [[Luca Zingaretti]], [[Daniele Liotti]] and [[Leo Gullotta]]; 2 parts. A police commando with codenames all inspired by the [[Homeric poems]] has to escort a [[pentito]] and to capture a Mafia boss; it carries out the two missions, also if at the cost of the commander's life.

===== Religious fictions =====

*''Maria, figlia di suo figlio'' ("[[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]], daughter of her son") – by [[Fabrizio Costa]], with [[Yael Abecassis]] in the title role; 2 parts.
*''[[Joseph of Nazareth (film)|Joseph of Nazareth]]'', with [[Tobias Moretti]] in the [[Saint Joseph|title role]], and ''Maria Maddalena'', with [[Maria Grazia Cucinotta]] in the [[Mary Magdalene|title role]], both directed by [[Raffaele Mertes]]; first chapters of the Lux Vide series ''Jesus’ friends''.
*''[[Padre Pio: Miracle Man|Padre Pio, miracle man]]'' – by [[Carlo Carlei]], with [[Sergio Castellitto]] in the [[Padre Pio|title role]].<ref>((Citation|last=Carlei|first=Carlo|title=Padre Pio|url=https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/movie/padrepio/padre-pio_F010512705000101|access-date=2 June 2021))</ref> Realized in competition with a similar RAI's miniseries (see over) on occasion of the friar's [[beatification]], it's the most successful TV fiction of the year, with 12.589.000 viewers.<ref>((Cite web|last=Hit|date=15 November 2015|title=Ascolti Story, dalle origini ai giorni nostri: 1999–2000|url=https://www.tvblog.it/post/1209486/ascolti-story-dalle-origini-ai-giorni-nostri-1999-2000|access-date=2 June 2021|website=TvBlog|language=it))</ref>

==== Miniseries ====
*''[[Les Miserables (2000 TV miniseries)|Les Miserables]]'' – by [[Josée Dayan]], international coproduction from the [[Victor Hugo]]'s [[Les Misérables|novel]], with [[Gérard Depardieu|Gerard Depardieu]], [[Asia Argento]], [[Enrico Lo Verso]] and [[Giovanna Mezzogiorno]]; 4 episodes.

==== Serials ====

* ''[[Giornalisti (TV series)|Giornalisti]]'' ("Journalists") – by [[Donatella Maiorca]], with Fabrizio Conti and Donatella Cavalli; Italian version of the Spanish serial ''[[Periodistas (TV series)|Periodistas]]'', it does not repeat the success of the prototype and lasts for just a season.
* ''[[Questa casa non è un albergo]]'' ("This house is not an hotel") – by [[Raffaele Mertes]], with Sabina Ciuffini in the (autobiographical) role of a mother of a family, former TV star, and Sergio Bustric. 
* ''[[Tequila & Bonetti]]'', sequel of the CBS series ''[[Tequila and Bonetti]]'', with [[Jack Scalia]] and [[Alessia Marcuzzi]]; the setting is transposed from Los Angeles to Rome.

==== Variety ====

* ''Bigodini'' ("Hair rollers") – game show focused on [[Gossip magazine]]s and set in a fictitious hairdressing salon, hosted by Max Novaresi; 2 seasons.
*''A tu per tu'' ("Face to face") – talk show of the noon, hosted by [[Antonella Clerici|Antonalla Clerici]] and [[Maria Teresa Ruta]], then substituted by [[Gianfranco Funari]].
*''Macchemù''<ref>The word is a distortion of ''Ma che musica maestro'', title track of ''[[Canzonissima]] 1970'' sung by [[Raffaella Carrà]].</ref> – contest among the most famous title tracks of the Italian TV shows, hosted by [[Paola Barale]]; the winner is [[Giorgio Vanni]] with ''[[Pokémon (TV series)|Pokémon]]''.
*''Operazione five'' ("Operation five") – anthology of the [[Canale 5]] variety shows, celebrating the twenty years of activity by the network.
*''Ricomincio da 20'' ("I restart from twenty") – show celebrating the Canale 5's twenty years of activity, hosted by [[Mike Bongiorno]] and [[Paolo Bonolis]].
*''Provini, tutti pazzi per la TV'' ("Auditions, everybody crazy for TV") – hosted by [[Gerry Scotti]]; unfortunate auditions, taken from the Mediaset archives, are shown to the public, often in presence of the candidates themselves.  
*''Teatro 18'' – show, hosted by [[Serena Dandini]] and [[Claudio Bisio]], with singers and comedians performing together.
*''Telenauta 69'' – with [[Lillo & Greg|Lilo & Greg]]; the program opposes nostalgically a fake 1969 RAI variety, shot in black and white and inspired to cult shows as ''[[Canzonissima]]'', to pieces of the vulgar Italian TV in 2000.
*''Wozzup, la casa di Italia 1'' ("What's up, Italia1 house") – talk show aimed to the teen-agers, hosted by Daniele Bossari.

=== Other channels ===
*''Disco 2000'' ([[MTV (Italian TV channel)|MTV Italia]]) – program about history of pop music, hosted first by Daniele Bossari, then by [[Giorgia Surina]].

==Ending this year==

* ''Avvocato Porta''
* ''Bellissima''
* ''Il brutto anatroccolo''
* ''Canzoni sotto l’albero''
* ''Cinematic''
* ''Circus''
* ''Fantastica italiana''
* ''Fuego!''
* ''Il grande bluff''
* ''In bocca al lupo''
* ''[[Linda e il brigadiere]]''
* ''Lion network''
*''Momenti di gloria'' (1999–2000)
* ''Paperissima sprint''
* ''Pinocchio''
* ''Provincia segreta''
* ''Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna''
* ''Solletico''
* ''Target''
* ''Vota la voce''
* ''Zap zap''

==Networks and services==
===Launches===
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! Type 
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! Notes 
! Source 
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| [[Alice (TV channel)|Alice]]
| Cable and satellite
| Unknown
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| [[Class CNBC|CFN]]
| Cable and satellite
| 14 June
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| [[Inter TV]]
| Cable and satellite
| 20 September
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|-
| [[Case Design Stili]]
| Cable and satellite
| October
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|}

===Conversions and rebrandings===
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! Old network name
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! Type
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===Closures===
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==Births==
((Empty section|date=March 2015))

==Deaths==

* '''29 June''': [[Vittorio Gassman]]n, 77, actor.
* '''24 October''': [[Silvio Noto]], 75, presenter.

==See also==
*[[2000 in Italy]]
*[[List of Italian films of 2000]]

== References ==
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((Years in TV by country|2000))

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