Piloti (TV series)

Piloti (Pilots) is an Italian sitcom, produced by Magnolia TV and aired on Rai 2 for three seasons starting in spring 2007.

Piloti
Directed byCeleste Laudisio
StarringEnrico Bertolino
Max Tortora
Country of originItaly
No. of seasons3
Production
ProducerRosario Rinaldo
Running time5 mins
Production companyMagnolia Fiction
Release
Original networkRai 2
Original release5 April 2007 (2007-04-05)

Format and situation

The programme consists of five-minute unedited "sketch-com" episodes, three of which were broadcast every evening, five days a week.[1][2] The first two seasons began on 5 April 2007 and included 150 episodes;[1][3] the third season of 180 episodes began on 20 April 2009.[2]

The setting is a budget airline, Piccione Airlines, where Enrico Gasparini (Enrico Bertolino) and Max Conti (Max Tortora) are pilots; many episodes take place in a cockpit.[4] Some characters, including the company head (Gianni Quillico) and Gasparini's wife (Carla Chiarelli) are unseen, heard on the crew's mobile phones or on aircraft communications.[1]

Gasparini and Conti first explored the budget airline setting in a 2003 RAI comedy, Bulldozer.[3][5]

Cast
  • Enrico Bertolino: Enrico Gasparini, pilot, with a Milanese accent, punctilious, with excellent English
  • Max Tortora: Max Conti, copilot, with a Roman accent, sloppy, with little English
  • Gisella Burinato: Silvana Bava, chief Flight attendant
  • Jessica Polsky: Josephine Caratozzo, the other flight attendant, a beautiful Italian-American with her head in the clouds
  • Giovanni Sanicola: Celeste, steward
  • Gianni Quillico: head of Piccione Airlines (unseen)
  • Carla Chiarelli: Gasparini's wife (unseen)
  • Enrica Ajò: Cecilia, Gasparini's daughter
  • Filippo Spagliardi: Tommaso, Gasparini's son
  • Sergio Friscia: Arturo, Caratozzo's boyfriend
  • Teresa Piergentili: Adelina, Conti's mother[1][2]

Pamela Prati guest starred in Series 3 as the wife of an important politician.[2]

Awards

Piloti won a 2008 Rose d'Or award in the sitcom category.[6]

See also

References
  1. Nexta (10 April 2007). "Sitcom. Enrico Bertolino e Max Tortora diventano 'piloti'". Film.it (in Italian). Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  2. "Piloti - la terza serie, torna su Rai Due". Newspettacolo.com (in Italian). 8 April 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. Sere (3 April 2007). "Piloti – una sitcom per Rai Due". Televisionando (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  4. Davide Maggio (19 February 2007). "PILOTI, la nuova sitcom della RAI". Davide Maggio.it (in Italian). NanoPress. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  5. "I programmi di Rai Premium: Piloti" (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  6. "Sketch-Comedy: Piloti" (in Italian). Cross Productions. Retrieved 25 July 2018.


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