This is a list of Italian television related events from 2012.
Events
5 January – Francesca Michielin wins the fifth season of X Factor. 10 March – 21-year-old acro pole flag man Stefano Scarpa wins the third season of Italia's Got Talent. 17 March – Singer and actor Andrés Gil and his partner Anastasia Kuzmina win the eighth season of Ballando con le stelle. 1 April – Sabrina Mbarek wins the twelfth season of Grande Fratello. 7 December – Chiara Galiazzo wins the sixth season of X Factor.
Debuts
RAI
Serials
The young Montalbano – prequel of Il commissario Montalbano, by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, with David Riondino as Salvo Montalbano; 2 seasons. The family – by Riccardo Milani and Riccardo Donna, with Stefania Sandrelli, Gianni Cavina, Stefania Rocca and Alessandro Gassmann; 3 seasons and 2 spin-offs. Soap-opera about the Rengoni, a family of Lombard industrialists. Questo nostro amore ("This our love") – by Luca Ribuoli and Isabella Leoni, with Nerì Marcorè and Anna Valle; 3 seasons. The stories of two families in Turin (an irregular couple and a patriarchal clan of Sicilians), living in the same condominium, interlace for twenty years, from the Sixties to the Eighties, till to the birth of a child, son of the two firstborns.
Television shows
Rai
Drama
Caruso, la voce dell'amore ("The voice of love") – biopic by Stefano Reali, with Gianluca Terranova in the title role, Vanessa Incontrada and Martina Stella; 2 episodes. One Thousand and One Nights – by Marco Pontecorvo, with Marco Bocci and Vanessa Hessler, freely adapted from the Arabian nights; 2 episodes. Santa Barbara – by Carmine Elia, with Vanessa Hessler in the title role and Massimo Wertmuller. Walter Chiari, fino all'ultima risata ("Till the last laugh") – biopic by Enzo Monteleone, with Alessio Boni in the title role; 2 episodes.
Serials
Nero Wolfe – with Francesco Pannofino in the title role and Pietro Sermonti as Archie Goodwin; the adventures of the two detectives are relocated in the Rome of the dolce vita.
News and educational
Berlino la mutante ("Berlin the mutant") – documentary by Andrea De Fusco.
2000s
Grande Fratello (2000–present) Ballando con le stelle (2005–present) X Factor (2008–present)
2010s
Italia's Got Talent (2010–present)