# 2014 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 2014.

## Events

* 26 May – Micro Petrilli wins the thirteenth season of Grande Fratello.
* 5 June – Cristina Scuccia, a Catholic nun whose blind audition became an international viral hit on YouTube, wins the second season of The Voice of Italy.
* 6 December – Racewalker Giusy Versace and her partner Raimondo Todaro win the tenth season of Ballando con le stelle.
* 11 December – Lorenzo Fragola wins the eighth season of X Factor.

## Debuts
### RAI
#### Serials

* Purché finisca bene ("As long as it ends well") – by Fabrizio Costa and others; 4 seasons. It is a cycle of comedies, without recurring actors or characters, inspired by optimism and good feelings, also when treating serious matters, as the economic crisis.
* Braccialetti rossi ("Red bracelets") – by Giacomo Campiotti, with Carmine Buschini and Aurora Ruffino, Italian version of the Spanish Polseres vermelles; 3 seasons.
* Una pallottola nel cuore ("A bullet in the heart") – by Luca Manfredi, with Gigi Proietti and Francesca Inaudi; 3 seasons. Proietti is Bruno Palmieri, a crime reporter, active and brave also if, after an attempted murder, he lives with a bullet in the chest.

## Television shows
### RAI
#### Drama

* Beauty and the beast, by Fabrizio Costa, with Bianca Suarez and Alessandro Preziosi, from the homonymous fable; 2 episodes.

##### Biopic

* Per amore del mio popolo ("For my people's love") – biopic by Antonio Frazzi, with Alessandro Preziosi as don Giuseppe Diana; 2 episodes.
* Qualunque cosa succeda – ("Whenever it happens") – biopic by Albeto Negrin, with Pierfrancesco Favino as Giorgio Ambrosoli.
* Mister Ignis, l'operaio che fondò un impero ("Mister Ignis, the laborer who founded an empire") – biopic by Luciano Manuzzi, with Lorenzo Flaherty as the domestic appliance tycoon Giovanni Borghi; 2 episodes.
* La strada dritta ("The straight road") by Carmine Elia, with Ennio Fantastichini as Giuseppe Cova (the engineer who designed the Sun Motorway) and Anita Caprioli; 2 episodes.

#### Miniseries

* Un'altra vita ("Another life") – by Cinzia TH Torrini, with Vanessa Incontrada and Daniele Lotti; 6 episodes. An upper class woman, whose existence has been upset by her husband's arrest, tries to rebuild a life as medical officer in Ponza.
* Orfani ("Orphans") – cartoon by Armando Traverso, from the Roberto Recchioni and Emiliano Mammucari's comics; 10 episodes. In an apocalyptic future, a commando of children fights against the aliens invaders.

#### Serials

* Impazienti ("The impatient ones") – sit-com by Celeste Laudisio, with Enrico Bertolino and Max Tortora. Two crocks, for an insurance scam, are forced to a long cohabitation in an hospital, even though they can't stand each other.
* Il candidato – Zucca presidente ("The candidate – Zucca for president"), sit-com by Ludovico Bassegato, with Filippo Timi, Lunetta Savino and Bebo Storti; 2 seasons. Italian version of the French Hènaut prèsident, it's the story of a postman become politician, honest but absolutely incompetent, and handled by his cynical staff.

#### News and educationals.

* Alla scoperta del Vaticano ("Discovering the Vatican City") – by Alberto Angela; 6 episodes.

### 2000s

* Grande Fratello (2000–present)
* Ballando con le stelle (2005–present)
* X Factor (2008–present)

### 2010s

* Italia's Got Talent (2010–present)
* The Voice of Italy (2013–present)

## Networks and services
### Launches

| Network | Type | Launch date |
| LaC TV | Cable and satellite | Unknown |
| Fine Living | Cable and satellite | 26 March |
| Sky Atlantic | Cable and satellite | 9 April |
| Fox Animation | Cable and satellite | 1 November |
| Fox Comedy | Cable and satellite | 1 November |

### Conversions and rebrandings

| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion Date | Notes | Source |

### Closures

| Network | Type | Closure date | Notes | Source |
| Fox Retro | Cable and satellite | 31 December | | |