The Best TV Shows on Canale 5

Every Canale 5 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of Canale 5’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of June 2025. Icons of Canale 5, Macron 1 and Casa Vianello made their debut in 1986 and 1988, setting industry standards. Canale 5 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1986 all the way to 2022.

  • Mai dire grande fratello
    Mai dire grande fratello (2000)8.8

  • Zelig
    Zelig (1997)7.8

  • Violet like the sea
    Violet like the sea (2022)7.8

    Viola Vitale, Miss Italy and fashion journalist, returns to Sicily to look for her father. She starts working for a digital news company and joins police inspector Francesco Demir in solving crime with the help of synesthesia.

  • Anti-Mafia Squad
    Anti-Mafia Squad (2009)7.6

    Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

  • Gourmet Wars
    Gourmet Wars (2012)7.2

    Two family owned restaurants of conflicting styles open up shop across the street from one another.

  • I Cesaroni
    I Cesaroni (2006)7.1

    I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI. The series is transmitted not only in Italy but also in Portugal, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey. It is inspired by the Spanish series "Los Serrano". In Italy, the series is now in its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth season.

  • L'onore e il rispetto
    L'onore e il rispetto (2006)7.1

    L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series.

  • Questa è la mia terra
    Questa è la mia terra (2006)6.8

  • Tú Sí Que Vales
    Tú Sí Que Vales (2014)6.8

  • Distretto di Polizia
    Distretto di Polizia (2000)6.7

    Distretto di Polizia is an Italian television series.

  • R.I.S. - Delitti Imperfetti
    R.I.S. - Delitti Imperfetti (2005)6.5

    A crime drama focusing on the scientific aspects of crime investigations.

  • I liceali
    I liceali (2008)6.3

    A teen comedy-drama set in an Italian public high school following an ensemble cast of students and teachers.

  • Carabinieri
    Carabinieri (2002)6.1

    Carabinieri is an Italian television series that aired on Canale 5 from March 2002 to July 30, 2008. The series is an action thriller with added elements of comedy, and has been compared to the soap opera format. It told the story of the police barracks located in Città della Pieve.

  • Ultimo
    Ultimo (1998)6.0

  • CentoVetrine
    CentoVetrine (2001)6.0

    The series tells the stories of some of the characters who work or are related to an imaginary shopping center Centovetrine, located in the center of Turin. There are many stories of love and passion, but also struggles for power and dynastic quarrels in the telefilm.

  • Casa Vianello
    Casa Vianello (1988)5.8

    Cascina Vianello is an Italian television series.

  • L'isola dei famosi
    L'isola dei famosi (2003)5.0

  • Macron 1
    Macron 1 (1986)N/A

    In 1986, Saban Entertainment combined footage from GoShogun and Akū Dai Sakusen Srungle (Great Military Operation in Subspace Srungle or Mission Outer Space Srungle), a similar show produced by Kokusai Eiga-sha, to form Macron 1. In the US version, test pilot David Chance is accidentally transported into a parallel universe controlled by a tyrannical organization called GRIP, led by Dark Star. This allows GRIP to send their forces to Earth, leaving Dark Star's cyborg henchman Orn as deputy in the alternate universe. Fighting against GRIP are two teams comprising "Macron 1": the first (from the GoShogun footage) battles against Dark Star's legions on Earth; Beta Command (from the Srungle footage) is working to overthrow Orn. The main focus is on the Macron team on Earth, with Beta Command appearing sporadically.

  • Io e la mamma
    Io e la mamma (1997)N/A

    Io e la mamma is an Italian television series.

  • Caterina e le sue figlie
    Caterina e le sue figlie (2005)N/A

    Caterina e le sue figlie is an Italian television series that aired from December 4, 2005 to March 3, 2010 on Canale 5. The comedy series follows single mother Catherine as she tries to balance raising three daughters alone and dating.