Piloti (TV series)
| Piloti | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Directed by | Celeste Laudisio |
| Starring | Enrico Bertolino Max Tortora |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 459 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Rosario Rinaldo |
| Running time | 5 mins |
| Production company | Magnolia Fiction |
| Original release | |
| Network | Rai 2 |
| Release | April 5, 2007 – December 21, 2011 |
Piloti is an Italian sitcom, produced by Magnolia TV and aired on Rai 2 for three seasons starting in spring 2007 and ending in fall 2011.
Format and situation
[edit]The programme consists of five-minute unedited "sketch-com" episodes, three of which were broadcast every evening, five days a week.[1][2] The first season began on 5 April 2007 and ended on 27 September and included 150 episodes;[1][3] the second season began on 15 November 2008 and ended on 10 August and included 216 episodes;[4] the third season of 43 episodes began on 30 March 2011 and ended on 21 December.[2] Among the three seasons, there are also about 100 unaired episodes.[5]
The setting is a budget airline, Piccione Airlines, where Enrico Gasparini (Enrico Bertolino) and Max Conti (Max Tortora) are pilots; many episodes take place in a cockpit.[6] Some characters, including the company head (Gianni Quillico) and Gasparini's wife (Carla Chiarelli) are unseen, heard on the crew's mobile phones or on aircraft communications.[1]
Gasparini and Conti first explored the budget airline setting in a 2003 RAI comedy, Bulldozer.[3][7]
Cast
[edit]- Enrico Bertolino: Enrico Gasparini, pilot, with a Milanese accent, punctilious, with excellent English
- Max Tortora: Max Conti, copilot, with a Roman accent, sloppy, with little English
- Gisella Burinato: Silvana Bava, chief Flight attendant
- Jessica Polsky: Josephine Caratozzo, the other flight attendant, a beautiful Italian-American with her head in the clouds
- Giovanni Sanicola: Celeste, steward
- Gianni Quillico: head of Piccione Airlines (unseen)
- Carla Chiarelli: Gasparini's wife (unseen)
- Enrica Ajò: Cecilia, Gasparini's daughter
- Filippo Spagliardi: Tommaso, Gasparini's son
- Sergio Friscia: Arturo, Caratozzo's boyfriend
- Teresa Piergentili: Adelina, Conti's mother[1][2]
Pamela Prati guest starred in Series 3 as the wife of an important politician.[2]
Awards
[edit]Piloti won a 2008 Rose d'Or award in the sitcom category.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Nexta (10 April 2007). "Sitcom. Enrico Bertolino e Max Tortora diventano 'piloti'". Film.it (in Italian). Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Sceneggiati e Fiction 2009 - 2010 -" (in Italian). 8 April 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ a b Sere (3 April 2007). "Piloti – una sitcom per Rai Due". Televisionando (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Sceneggiati e Fiction 2008 - 2009 -" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ NIENTE DI PERSONALE 12/04/2011 - L'intervista doppia a Bertolino e Tortora, retrieved 2023-07-18
- ^ Davide Maggio (19 February 2007). "PILOTI, la nuova sitcom della RAI". Davide Maggio.it (in Italian). NanoPress. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ "I programmi di Rai Premium: Piloti" (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Sketch-Comedy: Piloti" (in Italian). Cross Productions. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
External links
[edit]- Piloti at IMDb
- Piloti at RAI, archived on 18 April 2014 (in Italian), requires Adobe Flash
- Piloti on RaiPlay
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