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The Best TV Shows on Canale 5

Every Canale 5 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Canale 5 has aired more than 20 shows between 1988 and 2022. As of November 2024, we’ve curated over 20 of Canale 5’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. Premiering in 1988 and 1988, Striscia la Notizia and Casa Vianello are among Canale 5’s most celebrated shows.

  • Elisa di Rivombrosa
    Elisa di Rivombrosa (2003)8.5

    Set in Piemonte of Carlo Emanuele III, Elisa di Rivombrosa tells the love story between Count Fabrizio Ristori and the maid Elisa Scalzi, lady companion of countess Agnes, mother of Fabrizio. The couple will face many difficulties, intrigues of all kinds, a mockery of fate and various misfortunes.

  • L'onore e il rispetto
    L'onore e il rispetto (2006)7.9

    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.

  • Corleone
    Corleone (2007)7.9

    The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.

  • Anti-Mafia Squad
    Anti-Mafia Squad (2009)7.8

    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.

  • Violet like the sea
    Violet like the sea (2022)7.7

    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.

  • Scherzi a Parte
    Scherzi a Parte (1992)7.6

  • Ciao Darwin
    Ciao Darwin (1998)7.5

    Ciao 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. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

  • Fantaghirò
    Fantaghirò (1991)7.2

    The king desires nothing more than a male heir. But his wife gives birth to a girl Fantaghiró. When she refuses to marry years later, she is sent in the forest where she learns how to ride and fight like a man. She appears disguised in a duel with Prince Romualdo, the son of her father's adversary. Both fall in love, but their marriage brings no peace to the united kingdom. Evil forces are trying to seize power.

  • I Cesaroni
    I Cesaroni (2006)7.2

    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.

  • R.I.S. - Delitti Imperfetti
    R.I.S. - Delitti Imperfetti (2005)7.0

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

  • Distretto di Polizia
    Distretto di Polizia (2000)6.7

    Distretto di Polizia is an Italian television series.

  • Tuscan Passion
    Tuscan Passion (2012)6.3

    A story of murder, conspiracy and secrets but above all about a great love story; Tuscan Passion tells the story of an impossible love between Aurora Taviani and Alessandro Monforte. Both belong to enemy families and both are divided by a history of blood and mystery.

  • Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?
    Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? (1999)6.2

  • 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.

  • Carabinieri
    Carabinieri (2002)6.0

    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.

  • Casa Vianello
    Casa Vianello (1988)5.8

    Cascina Vianello is an Italian television series.

  • Topo Gigio
    Topo Gigio (1988)5.5

    Topo Gigio (トッポ・ジージョ) is a Japanese anime television series featuring the Italian character Topo Gigio. The Anime talks about the bizarre adventure of Topo Gigio Kujo, in the alternative universe of Steel Gigio Run, the most important friend of Gigio Kujo is Jujuseppe Brusciano Zappeli. Gigio (or Jitaro Kujo in the Japanese original version) has the stand Star Topium, a special power of the mouse, he can stop the time and he can do a rapid series of punches.

  • Big Man
    Big Man (1988)5.5

    The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.

  • Paperissima Sprint
    Paperissima Sprint (1990)5.0

  • Striscia la Notizia
    Striscia la Notizia (1988)N/A

    Striscia 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. The polysemic term Striscia, in English strip, can recall both a line of cocaine and the comic strip. But Striscia is also the slithing snake: this show worm in the hidden holes to unmask the television cheats. Founded in 1988, it is meant to be a parody of the daily news, which airs right before the program, but Striscia also satirizes government corruption and exposes scams with the help of local reporters who are also comedians. The program is directed and produced by Antonio Ricci and is hosted by two major comedians. Usually Ezio Greggio is assisted by another comedian for the winter season, after which there is a change of guard.