Boris (2007– )

Creators:

Luca Manzi, Carlo Mazzotta

Stars:

Francesco Pannofino, Caterina Guzzanti, Paolo Calabresi

1 win.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Francesco Pannofino	...	René Ferretti (32 episodes, 2007-2010)
Caterina Guzzanti	...	Arianna Dell'Arti (32 episodes, 2007-2010)
Paolo Calabresi	...	Augusto Biascica (32 episodes, 2007-2010)
Pietro Sermonti	...	Stanis La Rochelle (32 episodes, 2007-2010)
Roberta Fiorentini	...	Itala (32 episodes, 2007-2010)
Alessandro Tiberi	...	Alessandro (31 episodes, 2007-2010)
Antonino Bruschetta	...	Duccio Patané (31 episodes, 2007-2010)
Luca Amorosino	...	Alfredo (31 episodes, 2007-2010)
Carlo Luca De Ruggieri	...	Lorenzo (31 episodes, 2007-2010)
Antonio Catania	...	Diego Lopez (31 episodes, 2007-2010)
Alberto Di Stasio	...	Sergio (29 episodes, 2007-2010)
Ilaria Stivali	...	Gloria (18 episodes, 2007-2008)
Carolina Crescentini	...	Corinna Negri (16 episodes, 2007-2008)
Eugenia Costantini	...	Cristina Avola Burkstaller (14 episodes, 2008)

Storyline

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Official Sites:

Fox [it] Fox Tv [it]

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

16 April 2007 (Italy)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fox International Channels, Wilder

Technical Specs

Runtime:

23 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Gli occhi del cuore"
Written by Elio, Rocco Tanica, Cesareo, Faso
Performed by Elio, Rocco Tanica, Cesareo, Faso

User Reviews

Overrated but the rest is worse

I read that this fake-backstage of a soap opera should be "best Italian satire". And actually you can find quite a lot of hype about. Well, maybe it's true: "best Italian satire". This tells more on the state of Italian satire in TV productions than on the specific program. Forget about the humor, the good acting and the brilliant scripts of BBC's EXTRAS: here we are, in a small studio in the outskirts of Rome. So, you find what an average Italian production can afford. And that could have been a good starting point for a really smart parody. But something didn't work. The actors are supposed to be lame in such soap operas, so they could be portrayed that way. Unfortunately, most of the cast is really lame. They don't even know what acting is. And that's true for the most part of the dialogs as well. Predictable, unfunny, if not dumb. The characters are so heavily stylized that you already know what they are going to spit out. Alas, it is not enough to assemble a bunch of incompetents to have a success as in Mel Brooks THE PRODUCERS... Finally, I gave 4 out of 10 to this little piece of comedy as an encouragement. And if you give a look to the most part of Italian productions, you will probably understand why - and appreciate it with an hooray!