There will also be new characters, protagonists of engaging and exciting stories. Leonardo, the highly anticipated international co-production between Lux Vide, Rai Fiction, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Frank Spotnitz's Big Light Productions, France Télévisions and RTVE starring with Aidan Turner, Matilda De Angelis and Freddie Highmore, reveals the mystery of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic characters in history 500 years after his death. Commissioner Ricciardi (Il commissario Ricciardi), based on the novels of Maurizio De Giovanni and played by Lino Guanciale, is an engaging story that investigates the meaning of life and pain in the background of Naples. From the novels of Gabriella Genisi, Lolita Lobosco represents a modern female version of the Italian-style crime thriller hybridated with comedy. Luisa Ranieri plays the role of a female deputy commissioner leading Bari police station in a stubbornly patriarchal world. And again, Mina Settembre with Serena Rossi from the novels of Maurizio de Giovanni, a brilliant series that, with the right mix of comedy and crime, stages lights and shadows of our society and characters with great humanity. The story of an empathic social worker and the clinic where she works, in the beating heart of Naples: the Sanità quarter. Vittoria Puccini is the protagonist of the female action-thriller The Fugitive (La Fuggitiva), which, with noir tones, tells the story of a heroine on the run, who must defend herself from the accusation of having killed her husband and the shadows of the past. Hearts (Cuori) with Daniele Pecci, Matteo Martari, Pilar Fogliati is inspired by an Italian golden age of medicine in Italy and tells the human and professional challenges of a group of doctors as brilliant as ambitious in the cutting-edge cardiology department of the Molinette hospital in Turin. And again, The Promise (La Promessa) with Greta Scarano, Simone Liberati and Claudia Pandolfi that puts under the magnifying glass the birth and the end of a great love.
Italian pubcaster keep also telling the story of the great Italian personalities of the past. Cristiana Capotondi plays Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, a courageous figure who was able to change the world with the sole force of her dream and her creed. Eduardo Scarpetta plays Renato Carosone in Carosello Carosone. The story of the raising to the top of the international music charts, an adventure full of rhythm, fun and experimentation. The little girl who didn't want to sing (La bambina che non voleva cantare) retraces childhood and beginning of the artistic career of Nada Malanima, known simply as “Nada”, played by Carolina Crescentini. And again, Rai Fiction pays tribute to Primo Levi, one of the most famous Italian writers, with That's a man (Questo è un uomo). Starring with Thomas Trabacchi, That's a man remember the life of the Italian writer who told the horror of the concentration camps and who was able to raise his story as a symbol of the greatest collective tragedy of the twentieth century.
Finally, on Raiplay comes Nudes, an anthological tale, but deeply homogeneous, that tells the stories of three teenagers who must deal with the aftermath of their nude images being spread online via social media.
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