The Best TV Shows on Rai 3

Every Rai 3 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Check out the most acclaimed shows on Rai 3, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for February 2026. Highlighting Rai 3’s quality programming, Rischiatutto and La Pimpa stand out, premiering in 1970 and 1983. Boasting a rich catalog, Rai 3 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1970 to 2023.

  • Cinico TV
    Cinico TV (1989)10.0

    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.

  • Turisti per caso
    Turisti per caso (1993)10.0

  • Passato e Presente
    Passato e Presente (2017)9.5

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

  • La Melevisione
    La Melevisione (1999)9.2

  • Beautiful frame
    Beautiful frame (2023)9.2

    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.

  • Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
    Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta (2001)8.9

    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.

  • Un giorno in pretura
    Un giorno in pretura (1988)8.2

  • La Pimpa
    La Pimpa (1983)8.0

    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.

  • The Vertical Line
    The Vertical Line (2018)7.9

    Heartfelt Italian comedy-drama about the patients and staff of a hospital oncology ward.

  • Rischiatutto
    Rischiatutto (1970)7.8

  • Che tempo che fa
    Che tempo che fa (2003)7.7

    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.

  • The new squad
    The new squad (2008)7.5

    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.

  • The squad
    The squad (2000)6.8

    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.

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill
    Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015)6.7

    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.

  • Corto Maltese
    Corto Maltese (2003)6.2

    Elegant, daring, generous, Corto Maltese travels around the world wherever his current whim tales him. In every exotic locale his code of honor leads him to battle on behalf of the poor and the weak, battles he win due to his sparkling wit and daring.

  • The Spaghetti Family
    The Spaghetti Family (2003)5.0

    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.

  • Report
    Report (1997)N/A

    A weekly current affairs Italian show

  • PresaDiretta
    PresaDiretta (2009)N/A

  • That's Amore
    That's Amore (2019)N/A

  • Sei pezzi facili
    Sei pezzi facili (2022)N/A

    Six plays staged for TV, under the artistic direction and direction of Paolo Sorrentino. A project dedicated to the genius of Mattia Torre, played by actors-friends, companions of many adventures in cinema, theater and fiction.