Rai 1 international coproduction The Name of the Rose broadcast by Rai 1 in prime time on Monday, March 4 recorded 6.500 million viewers with an audience share of 27.4%.
The series produced by Rai Fiction and Tele Munchen Gruppe with Palomar and 11 Marzo Film is based on the famous Umberto Eco’s bestseller with the same name. The story set in a 14th century Italian monastery is focus on friar William Baskerville a Franciscan monk investing a series of mysterious murders in the abbey.