The Best TV Shows on Italia 1

Every Italia 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 20 shows from 1987 up until N/A, Italia 1 stands as a beacon of television excellence. Highlighting Italia 1’s quality programming, Once Upon a Time... Life and Teneramente Licia stand out, premiering in 1987 and 1987. Dive into our updated selection of Italia 1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of January 2026.

  • Sensualità a corte
    Sensualità a corte (2005)9.0

    Sensualità a corte is an Italian television series.

  • Mai dire gol
    Mai dire gol (1990)8.2

  • Once Upon a Time... Life
    Once Upon a Time... Life (1987)7.8

    Attention please! Are you ready for an adventurous tour through the human body? With a lot of humour, our physical appearance is being introduced from head to toe along cells and organs in an educational way. The heart, blood, nerves and kidneys, each single one is a miracle which renders life possible.

  • Zelig
    Zelig (1997)7.8

  • Belli dentro
    Belli dentro (2005)7.8

    Belli dentro is an Italian comedy television series, notable for its setting in a prison.

  • Scherzi a Parte
    Scherzi a Parte (1992)7.6

  • Gormiti
    Gormiti (2009)7.6

    The show follows two brothers, Nick & Toby, who discover that they have the power to transform into powerful creatures known as Gormitis. Their two friends Jessica & Lucas join the fight and together they harness the power of the four elements. Now it's up to them to save their world from destruction.

  • Love Bugs
    Love Bugs (2004)7.1

  • Emigratis
    Emigratis (2016)7.0

  • Le Iene
    Le Iene (1997)6.8

    Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other.

  • Camera Café
    Camera Café (2003)6.8

    The adventures and mis-adventures of a group of co-workers are shown by a camera on top of the coffee-machine in the relax area.

  • Simba: The King Lion
    Simba: The King Lion (1995)6.3

    After the lion king is shot by hunters, the other animals of the jungle decide to work together to raise his orphaned lion cubs, including his favorite son, Simba. Simba and his siblings end up being raised by a wolf along with a deer named Buckshot (changed from Bimbo to avoid being a walking copyright infringement), who had also previously lost his parents to hunters. It turns out the tiger Shere Khan was the one who arranged the death of Simba's father so he could be the king of the jungle, and he wishes to capture Simba with the help of his minions.

  • Puppy in My Pocket
    Puppy in My Pocket (2010)5.7

    Flo and Magic must help the puppies of Pocketville make their way to children in the real world and try to get Princess Ava, who was beamed to the real world by her sister, Eva, back into Pocketville.

  • Professione vacanze
    Professione vacanze (1987)5.6

    Enrico Borghini is an entertainer who finds himself becoming the director of a tourist village in crisis. Helped by the village staff, who are initially hostile to him, he manages to revive the fortunes of the structure.

  • Valentina
    Valentina (1989)4.3

    The stories revolve around the investigations of Valentina Rosselli, and the intrigues in which she gets involved because of her curiosity and her wonderful physical appearance. In the Shareholders She is often assisted by the antiquarian Philip Rembrandt, with whom she shares an ambiguous relationship.

  • College
    College (1990)4.1

    College is a 1990 Italian comedy television series, based on the 1983/4 film College. It aired on Tuesdays at 20.30 in Italy from March 6 to June 5 1990 for a total of 14 episodes. The episodes were directed by Lorenzo Castellano and Federico Moccia. The music for the series was provided by Claudio Simonetti. The female lead in the series is Federica Moro, Miss Italy, while her male counterpart, and her boyfriend, is Keith Van Hoven. The college featured in the series is located near the Naval Academy in the heart of Tuscany. The show was produced by Reteitalia and had excellent results in the ratings, with a peak of 6 million viewers per episode. It has since been re-run on numerous satellite channels.

  • Grande Fratello
    Grande Fratello (N/A)2.0

    Grande Fratello, the Italian version of reality television franchise Big Brother, began in September 2000, and has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon in Italy. There have been twelve completed seasons as of 2013. Based on the Original Dutch Version created by Endemol, the show sees a number of different Housemates, divided by gender, social backgrounds and geographical locations locked up together in a House, where the viewing Public can watch them twenty-four hours a day, and vote them out of the House as they choose to. The Housemates can visit the "Confessional" at any time during the day, either to talk to psychologists if they need to, talk to Big Brother, or to Nominate. The title is inspired by the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel tells of a Big Brother, head of the totalitarian state of Oceania that constantly monitors its inhabitants via camera in an attempt to suppress their free will. The tag line of the novel is "Big Brother is watching you", which inspired the show, as it is Big Brother who now has total control over the situation in the House. The Housemates live in a House 24 hours a day, bugged by numerous cameras and microphones which capture their every move. Every week the Housemates participate in tasks that determine their food budget for that Week, or could even affect that week's Nominations. The overall goal is to survive to be the final surviving Housemate, and claim the prize fund.

  • Teneramente Licia
    Teneramente Licia (1987)N/A

    Teneramente Licia is an Italian television series. It is one of the four live adpatations of the Japanese manga Ai Shite Knight. It is the sequel to "Love me Licia" and "Licia dolce Licia", and was followed by "Balliamo e cantiamo con Licia".

  • 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.

  • MegaSalviShow
    MegaSalviShow (1988)N/A

    Francesco Salvi Show aired in late 1988 in Italy