V I D E O • A G E 24 JU N E 2 0 12 As summer heats up, NBCUniversal in Italywill be heating up Italian TV screens in July and August with a selection of titles featuring big-name stars on its four channels: E! Entertainment, whichoffers themost up-to-dateHollywood news; Diva Universal, an entertainment channel dedicated to fascinating women; Steel/Syfy, which airs action and comedy programming and American cinema channel StudioUniversal. The channels and scheduling represent a successful model for many European channels. NBCUniversal Global Networks Italy also runs Universal Channel in Turkey and Greece. In July on E! Entertainment (Sky platform Channel 129), viewers can catch the 18-episode seventh season of the reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Plus, E! Entertainment format Behind the Scenes will go backstage with the stars of Snow White & The Huntsman. Meanwhile, E! Investigates A Family Tragedy: The Powells will tell the true story of the murder/suicide of the Powell family. In August, the channel is serving up E! Special: Heroes Gone Wrong, which investigates what happens when people violate the public trust and commit horrific crimes. E! Bridal to Homicidal is an hour-long special that tells the story of women who transform from happy brides to murderers. To mark the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, E! True Hollywood Story: Last Days of Elvis recounts the singer’s last days. In addition, Mrs. Eastwood & Company, about American actor Clint Eastwood’s wife and daughters, will come to E! Entertainment in Italy. Diva Universal (Sky platform Channel 128) is kicking off July with detective series Kojak. The channel is also premiering a number of programs dedicated to powerful women, starting with a timely episode of the original format Great Women called Great Women: Special Olympic Games – Nadia Comaneci, just in time for the 2012 Olympics. Other episodes include Great Women: Eva Peron, premiering in July; Great Women: Marilyn Monroe, premiering in August; Great Women: Special Olympic Games – Leni Riefenstahl (August) and Great Women: Lady Diana (August). With support fromthe ItalianPolice,Diva Universal is fighting violence by dedicating a new original format, Diva Universal Against Violence to the theme “Police: feminine singular. In defense of women.” Viewers can also tune in to Diva Universal to catch HBO documentary Public Speaking (August), about Fran Lebowitz. Drama series Grimm, which is inspired by the classic Grimm fairy tales, and Being Human 4, which centers on a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost trying to live normal lives, will bothmake their territory premieres on Syfy (Steel – Mediaset Premium on DTT) on July 2 and will continue to air each Monday. Additionally, The Greatest American Hero, an American comedydrama about a man who learns to use his superhuman powers by trial and error, will debut on the channel on July 10. Studio Universal is chock-full of exciting titles such as Superman; The Evil Dead; Robocop; Jaws; Interceptor; Evita (as a tribute to Evita Perón); The Outsiders and Jerry Maguire (to honor Tom Cruise); Crossfire, Blood on the Moon, Cape Fear, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys and The Yakuza (as a tribute to Robert Mitchum); Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence andOpening Night (as part of the Cassavetes Stunt), and The Big Red One (as part of 1 Film 1 History), among others. Prix Italia 2012: Activities Schedule The 64th edition of the RAI-sponsored international radio-television and web competition Prix Italia, directed by the Secretary General Giovanna Milella, begins in Turin on September 16 and wraps up on September 21. Turin was the first capital of Italy, and RAI, the public Italian Radio-Television broadcasting organization, was started in Turin, which is still the headquarters of one of Italy’s most important RAI production centers, the RAI Research Center and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. The venues for Prix Italia 2012 will remain the same as last year. The RAI Production Center, on Via Verdi 16, will host all the meetings in the Radio and Television Museum. The Radio Building, on Via Verdi 31, will house the juries. The Opening Ceremony will feature the “Gala Concert of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra,” conducted by maestro Jurai Valcuha at the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium. It will broadcast live on RAI’s radio and TV channels. The festival will close with an awards ceremony at the royal palace. This year’s edition offers many “special prizes.” The Special Prize: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, supported by the Milan Expo 2015, will provide a window of television programs devoted to themes on food and sustainable life. Another Special Prize: Cup of the President of the Italian Republic, will be awarded to a radio program by Italian President Giorgio Napoletano. AjuryofstudentsfromTurinUniversity’s School of Journalism will work in the web and multimedia sections for yet another Special Prize: Best multimedia section of newspapers, magazines and press agencies. In addition, it has been confirmed that the Special “Signis” Prize will be awarded to a competing television program that best promotes human values. Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has created an image that will characterize Prix Italia 2012 and serve as the leading motif of the event. The award winners will be given a piece of art created by Pistoletto for the occasion. Additionally, Pistoletto will deliver a lecture about his work on September 17 at the Castle of Rivoli. September 19 will be dedicated to Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, who took part in the 1969 edition of Prix Italia with one of his first works, Face to Face. This year, two of his major works, The Power of Evil: Paradigme (1985) and Persona Non Grata (2005), will screen at the Cinema Massimo. During the course of the evening Zanussi will speak on the subject of “European Cultural Identity in the Age of Internet.” Finally, on September 20, there will be an exhibition of U.S. visual artist and stage director Robert Wilson’s celebrity portraits titled “Videoportraits At PalazzoMadama.” Wilson’s lecture will be followed by the screening of Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s documentary, Absolute Wilson. NBCUni Global Networks Italia’s Channel Highlights F o c u s O n I t a l y Steel/Syfy’s Being Human 4 Studio Universal’s Evita E! Entertainment’s Mrs. Eastwood & Company
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