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When Giancarlo Esposito stepped off the escalator at moma, a trio of security guards—all young men, Black or Latino—greeted him with knowing salutes. Who, I wondered, did they see? Was it Gus Fring, the fussy, stoical drug lord of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul”? Or Stan Edgar, the biotech C.E.O. who manufactures superheroes in Amazon’s Marve...

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Potentially Dangerous will start broadcasting on PBS member stations next week! In our first month of broadcasts, we'll hit 10 states, 4 top-10 markets, and 20% of the total PBS landscape. That's 60 million potential viewers! Cities where you can watch in March include Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boise, Orlando, Spokane, Los A...

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Ray Romano is getting personal with his latest project “Somewhere in Queens.” The upcoming slice-of-life dramedy, which Romano directed and co-wrote, is partly inspired by his upbringing as well as his real-life family relationships, the actor shared with People. In the film, which hits theaters April 21, Romano and “Lady Bird” star Laurie Metcalf...

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NIAF congratulates Italian American actress Ellen Pompeo as her 19-year’s playing Dr. Meredith Grey on the award winning drama Grey’s Anatomy comes to a close. Her last episode as a series regular aired Thursday, February 23rd. In 2007, Ellen Pompeo was awarded the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Entertainment at our 32nd Anniversary Gala in Wash...

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Netflix's new period drama, The Law According to Lidia Poët, follows Lidia Poët (Matilda De Angelis), the first woman attorney in Italy. Did Lidia Poët really exist? Is the Italian show a true story? The answers: Yes and kinda! Poët was born in 1855 in Traverse, Italy, the youngest of four brothers and three sisters. She attended the University of...

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Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni led tributes to the celebrated journalist, television host and author Maurizio Costanzo who died in Rome on Friday aged 84. Hailing him as an "icon of journalism and TV", Meloni said on Twitter that Costanzo "was able to narrate difficult years with courage and professionalism", thanking him for "bringing cultu...

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Italian auteur Vittorio De Sica triumphed at the Berlin Film Festival when his 1971 masterpiece “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” claimed the Golden Bear, on its way to the best foreign-language Oscar in 1972. “Finzi” also earned Italian film and TV star Fabio Testi an Italian Golden Globe for best breakthrough actor. A half-century later, with ov...

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Food Network has announced that there’s a new show coming and it unites the pleasures of food with the excitement of traveling to Tuscany. Ciao House takes 10 up-and-coming chefs on the journey of a lifetime in the new primetime series hosted by network all-star Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and Tuscan-born Chef Gabriele Bertaccini. Shot on-location in I...

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The Good Mothers, Disney+’s hard-hitting mafia drama series, has won the first ever Berlinale Series Award. Forged in co-operation with Deadline, the award is the first of its kind for TV at a major film festival. Revealed as winner at the Berlin Zoo Palast, the Italian drama from Baghdad Central scribe Stephen Butchard tells the true story of how...

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Italy's La Scala has launched a streaming service allowing viewers to watch its operas, concerts and ballets online, in an effort to widen its audience worldwide. The first concert will be broadcast live on "La Scala TV" on Saturday with three Mozart symphonies conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the renowned Milan-based opera house said in a statement.

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