Montalbano and Livia go to the home Francois (their potential adoptee) has been living, to be safe, and learn that Francois does not want to leave with them and be adopted by them because he has become so attached to the temporary family and their children. He discovers that Michela's lover was an antiques dealer from Bologna who is in financial difficulties because of his gambling problem. Montalbano questions Michela's husband and her closest friend, Anna, a local school teacher, who takes a fancy to Montalbano. It turns out that she had owned a priceless Guarnieri del Gesù violin. Michela has been strangled during sex near her body is a violin case. The episode opens with Montalbano's discovery, in an abandoned villa, of the naked body of Michela Licalzi, a young woman who was married to a wealthy and complaisant older man. Montalbano decides it is time to propose to Livia so they can adopt and jointly raise Francois. Montalbano continues with his investigation finds that Kherima had been mixed up in international intrigue with the knowledge of the Italian secret services represented by the figure of Colonel Lohengrin Pera. Montalbano brings François to his home, where Montalbano's girlfriend Livia looks after him she wants to adopt the child. Montalbano discovers that the boy has survived on his own for several days by stealing snacks from other children at his school. Kherima is pursued by gangsters and ultimately murdered, but helps her son escape. Under questioning, the victim's widow bitterly accuses her husband's mistress, a beautiful Tunisian woman named Kherima, who vanished on the day of the murder, taking with her François, her six-year-old son. Salvo Montalbano investigates the murder of Lapecora, a middle-aged accountant, found stabbed in the back in the lift of the building where he lived.
Filmax also has another TV drama, “I Know Who You Are,” helmer Freixas’ follow-up to “Polseres.” A thriller event series, “I Know” could be made in either Spanish or English language, said Diaz.Episodes Series 1 (1999) No. Though one of Europe’s most famed genre film producers, Filmax is now producing both film and TV, including a Spasnish version of Channel 4-aired “Dates,” acquired from eONe Intl., for a Catalan retread for TV3. “Polseres Vermelles” has already received a Chilean remake from TVN.įirst aired on TV3 in 2011, written by Albert and helmed by Pau Freixas,” Polseres” has been Filmax’s first TV drama bet. A pan-Latin American version and Portuguese-language makeover are also under discussion, Diaz said.
America TV will shortly air a Peruvian remake, while negotiations for French- and German-language adaptations are advanced. Produced for Channel One, Russia’s biggest free-to-air TV service, a “Polseres Vermelles” Russia/Ukraine remake is in post-production. “Italy is culturally near to Spain, and Spanish fiction is traveling abroad, especially to Western and Eastern Europe and Latin America,” said Ivan Diaz, head of Filmax’s international division. Italy also shares Spain’s sense of pathos. Palomar, the producer of Italian modern classic cop series “El comisario Montalbano,” also produces “Brachialetti.” “Brachialetti” has managed to also cross over to younger demos. redo, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and ABC Studios, last December after one season.Īs with other pubcasters, RAI core audiences skew older than commercial channels.
Results contrast with the U.S., where “The Red Band Society” has proved one of multiple foreign format adaptation casualties this season, with Fox pulling the U.S. The first season went on to build converts for a 24.9% and 25.9% fifth and sixth episode shares, respectively (Drama is broadcast in two-hour episodes).
The second-season Italo makeover is tracking 3.4 percentage points up on the first season’s second seg, which notched 19.9% share and an aud of 5.7 million.