The Best TV Shows on Rai 3

The program consists of clips featuring interviews conducted by the two directors with alienated, crazy, and squalid characters against the backdrop of a desolate Sicily. A characteristic feature is the black and white footage. The subjects are all strictly male: there is no place for femininity in absolute squalor and desolation.

"Turista per Caso" (Accidentally Tourists) is a series of television programs created by the duo Patrizio Roversi and Syusy Blady, airing on Rai networks in 1991, from 1994 to 2001, and again in 2006. Over the years, the title, inspired by the film "Accidentally Tourist," has become synonymous with "do-it-yourself travel." The original idea was to show friends sitting in their living rooms videos of their own vacations, presenting, with a critical yet highly original eye, an alternative way of seeing the world, its beauties and unique features, highlighting perhaps unseen or little-known aspects.

Passepartout is an Italian TV show hosted by art critic Philippe Daverio that explores art, culture, and history by visiting museums, galleries, and historical sites. Known for its immediate and non-academic style, the show features Daverio's wide-ranging connections between different forms of art across all eras, offering viewers a rich look at Italy's artistic heritage and beyond.

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

Geppi Cucciari presents a people show, attentive to current events. The story of today's world with irony and lightness through books, films, social networks, television and art. Actors, friends and witnesses of our time bring an exclusive collection of words, anecdotes, curiosities, objects to TV and build the week moment by moment.

The Rai3 program that features two school classes comparing notes on a literary classic.

Alberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A historical, archaeological, informative story, with the presence of some protagonists of the Italian cultural or artistic scene.

Pimpa, a white female dog with red dots all over her body, who lives with her owner/father figure Armando, a plump moustached man who treats her like a daughter. Every day Pimpa goes through new adventures wheter it's in her house's surroundings or all over the world, or even in space, meeting old friends and making newers.

Che tempo che fa is an Italian television talk show hosted by the Italian television host Fabio Fazio. It has been broadcast live on Saturdays and Sundays on the Italian State TV Channel Rai Tre in Milan since 2003. The show has been aired prime time since September 2003. Che tempo che fa is a one-to-one talk show with two guests every night. Current events, political, economic, sporting, musical, literary, cinematic, scientific, nature and environmental issues of topical interest are discussed. Fabio Fazio’s feature is having friendly conversations rather than formal interviews. In its last edition the show made an average prime-time share of 15%, with an audience of 3,500,000 people.

In the heart of Naples, the Spaccanapoli Police Station is established to combat crime in the most affected areas. It is led by Deputy Commissioner Paola Ricci, a law-abiding officer who often clashes with Sergio Vitale, the impulsive and direct leader of the "Falchi" (Falchi). The Squad must confront crime but also its own vulnerabilities.

One of the most enthralling crime series among Italian viewers: airing on Rai Tre from March 3, 2000, "La Squadra" offers a realistic overview of the world of crime through the cases investigated by the Sant'Andrea Police Station in Naples.

Valeria Ferro, an inspector of the Turin Homicide Squad, is a young and extremely skilled police officer, with a keen intuition and an obsession: the truth. But her past reveals a wound that dates back to her adolescence, when her mother, Lucia, was convicted of her husband's murder.

Like it happens with every family all around the world, also in Italy the spaghetti family, an average, pretty large and messy family, has its own problems. While the mum is the typical "mama", the father is a layabout and their kids, besides being terribly untidy,music lovers and no school lovers, are in eternal dispute with their parents. Just one thing makes them get along together... the unconditional love for spaghetti that they daily eat for lunch and dinner.

A weekly current affairs Italian show