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Gubbio is a medieval town at the base of Mount Ingino, a small mountain in the Apennine range in central Italy. The town achieved international pop culture stardom as the setting for the Italian TV series Don Matteo. We have been binging on this 266-episode series. Having finished 6 of the 12 seasons, we’re hoping it will never end. One can’t reall...

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The hit FX series "The Bear" is prepping for its second season, with the first new episode coming June 22. The dark comedy stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, a fine dining chef who returns home to Chicago to take over his family's beef sandwich shop after the death of his brother.  "The Bear" took some of its inspiration from a re...

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Who better to ask for olive oil recommendations than restaurateur Lidia Bastianich? With eight cookbooks (and counting!) to her name, the culinary icon has built her career on Italian American recipes like Mussels Triestina or Home-Style Lasagna — both of which require some trusty extra virgin olive oil. It's a given that Bastianich reaches for Ita...

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“Hello, I’m Montalbano!” Almost every Monday at 9:15 PM, I would hear these words blaring from the TV in the living room. This is how the episodes of Italy’s most beloved Sicilian police commissioner always begin, alongside a nice close-up of Luca Zingaretti answering the phone, perhaps while sipping coffee on the terrace of his small villa in his...

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Emmy Award-winning director Adam Bernstein (“30 Rock,” “Fargo,” “Better Call Saul”) is set to helm new Prime Video Italy original “Costiera,” an English-language action drama set on Italy’s iconic Amalfi Coast. The high-end show is being co-produced by Amazon Studios and Luca Bernabei for Lux Vide, the prominent Italian company behind financial thr...

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Get ready, Food Network fans. Valerie Bertinelli has been busy cooking up something special, and it will be in your hands soon enough. Less than a week after the culinary star announced the end of her cooking show Valerie's Home Cooking, she gave a sneak peek at her next big career venture. In a video uploaded to Instagram, she revealed that she's...

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It’s 7:30 a.m. on a sunny May morning in Rome on a side street outside the studios of Italian state broadcaster Rai. A live audience standing behind metal fencing is watching a lithe group of nuns, one with a mustache, who slowly creep out from a row of white closet doors.  They start dancing, hugging and pirouetting to a ballad belted out by a you...

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Everybody loves Raymond, but there's no one in the world who loves him more than his wife Anna. For nearly 40 years, she has been the one cheering him on from just behind the scenes — and comedian Ray Romano truly has no idea what he would do without her. "If aliens came and took her away and didn't hurt her and kept her in a safe place and was gon...

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Joe and Anthony Russo are going big on the small screen with Citadel, a groundbreaking spy thriller that’s connecting audiences and cultures from across the globe like never before. The $200 million TV project, bankrolled by Amazon Studios, follows an unprecedented production concept, where several Citadel spin-offs — now being filmed around the wo...

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On the homepage of Trip Advisor there is a section dedicated to movie destinations: "Ten places from your favorite movies and TV shows to visit in 2023," is the title. First place in the rankings, above Rome and Los Angeles, to Sicily, and credit is due to "The White Lotus," the TV series filmed in Taormina that drew hordes of American tourists: so...

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