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| A new style of crime-fighting: Luca Zingaretti is INSPECTOR MONTALBANO. Image: RAI TELEVISION. |
They've conquered the world with icons like Sophia Loren, The Mafia, Pizza and Ice Cream, and now Italy goes one step further, as it's RAI television company gives us the continuing adventures of their top small-screen TV detective Inspector Salvo Montalbano, the often grumpy but lovable rogue- also an astute and adaptive cop- as played by actor Luca Zingaretti, from the imaginative and delightful book series created by Andrea Camilleri. A full ten episode run of the series, mixing drama and light comedy, has finally been purchased by the acclaimed UK BBC 4 channel, screening weekly from tonight (and critically helping to fill in the popular strand left vacant by another popular European series, BORGEN, which ended its triumphant first season run last week).
It's presence will also help viewers annoyed by the recent axing of another Italy based detective series, the successful ZEN, which previously starred Rufus Sewell, made by BBC 1. INSPECTOR MONTALBANO will surely be a welcome tonic that truly captures the flavour of Italian life and crime, mixing romance with bloodshed, humour with occasional grim revelations, against a sunny and beautifully picturesque backdrop of old and new world within the fictional city of Vagata, filmed in Sicily, as only its originators know how. The previous two feature length episodes of the series ("Excursion to Tindari" and "Montalbano's Croquettes") re-shown last year on BBC 4 had been very enjoyable with viewers, and KOOL TV looks forward to seeing what escapades befall our hero and his memorable team of detectives come casanovas, over the next few months- a warm and hopefully inventive set of ingredients to fight against the cold, dark nights of Winter.
INSPECTOR MONTALBANO is also available on Region 4 DVD release.
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