Boris (TV series)

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Boris
Cast of Boris
Genre	Comedy Satire
Created by	Luca Manzi Carlo Mazzotta
Directed by	Giacomo Ciarrapico (season 2) Davide Marengo (season 3) Mattia Torre (season 2) Luca Vendruscolo (season 1, 2)
Starring	Alessandro Tiberi Carolina Crescentini Caterina Guzzanti Roberta Fiorentini Ilaria Stivali Pietro Sermonti Francesco Pannofino Antonio Catania Ninni Bruschetta Paolo Calabresi Alberto Di Stasio Carlo De Ruggeri Karin Proia Eugenia Costantini Luca Amorosino Angelica Leo Valerio Aprea Massimo De Lorenzo Andrea Sartoretti Giorgio Tirabassi Aurora Calabresi Andrea Lintozzi
Theme music composer	Elio e Le Storie Tese
Opening theme	Gli occhi del cuore
Ending theme	Gli occhi del cuore
Composers	Giuliano Taviani Carmelo Travia
Country of origin	Italy
Original language	Italian
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	50
Production
Producer	Lorenzo Mieli
Original release
Network	Fox International Channels Italy
Release	April 17, 2007 (2007-04-17) – April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12)
Network	Star
Release	October 26 (2022-10-26) – October 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
Related
Boris: The Film

Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season that premiered in 2022.

Boris brings to the stage the behind-the-scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many dramas airing on Italian TV networks. The series consists of 3 seasons and a movie for the cinema, Boris: The Film, released in 2011. The series first aired in Italy on satellite channels FOX and FX, and subsequently on Cielo and Rai 3.

After an eleven-year hiatus, a revival was produced for Disney+ in 2022.^[1] The series is now on Star with an English dub.

The show starts with Alessandro arriving on the set where the TV show Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2) is being shot, as the new intern of direction. As soon as he arrives, he finds out that the world of the television is not like what he had imagined. In command of the crew there's René Ferretti, a director who gave up on quality content and shoots TV dramas of poor quality. In addition to the members of the crew there are the actors, Stanis and Corinna, who are the protagonists of the drama. Through Alessandro we see the making of the drama, with its various problems and unexpected events and always at risk of being shut down.

After various speculations, on February 16, 2021, during the press conference dedicated to the launch of the Star section of Disney+, a fourth season of Boris was announced, consisting of 8 episodes lasting 30 minutes each, being release as a Star Original . During the presentation, the return of the previous cast was confirmed, which this time will be grappling with the world of streaming and social platforms. The new season was produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment, a subsidiary of Fremantle.^[2] An English dub was also made.

• Alessandro Tiberi (seasons 1–4) as Alessandro, the direction's intern.
• Francesco Pannofino (seasons 1–4) as René Ferretti, the director.
• Caterina Guzzanti (seasons 1–4) as Arianna Dell'Arti, the first assistant director.
• Pietro Sermonti (seasons 1–4) as Stanis La Rochelle, the male lead in Gli occhi del cuore.
• Carolina Crescentini (seasons 1–2, 4, season 3 as guest) as Corinna Negri, the female lead in Gli occhi del cuore.
• Roberta Fiorentini (seasons 1–3) as Itala, the script supervisor.
• Ninni Bruschetta (seasons 1–4) as Duccio Patanè, the director of photography.
• Paolo Calabresi (seasons 1–4) as Augusto Biascica, the chief electrician.
• Antonio Catania (seasons 1–4) as Diego Lopez, the network executive.
• Alberto Di Stasio (seasons 1–4) as Sergio Vannucci, the production manager.
• Carlo De Ruggieri (seasons 1–3) as Lorenzo, the enslaved intern.
• Ilaria Stivali (seasons 1–2, season 3 as guest) as Gloria Spalloni, the makeup artist.
• Luca Amorosino (seasons 1–4) as Alfredo, the assistant director.
• Valerio Aprea, Massimo De Lorenzo and Andrea Sartoretti (seasons 1–4) as the screenwriters.
• Eugenia Costantini (season 2, 3-4 as guest) as Cristina Avola Burkstaller, an actress in the TV drama Gli occhi del cuore.
• Karin Proia (seasons 2–3) as Karin, an actress in the TV drama Gli occhi del cuore.
• Angelica Leo (season 3, 4 as guest) as Fabiana Hassler, René's daughter and actress in Medical Dimension.
• Anna Calabresi (season 4) as Lalla, the new intern.
• Andrea Lintozzi (season 4) as Fabio, the new slave.

• Arnaldo Ninchi as Dottor Cane, the President of the Network (seasons 1–3)
• Roberto Herlitzka as Orlando Serpentieri, an actor in Gli occhi del cuore (season 1)
• Massimiliano Bruno as Nando Martellone, a comedian and actor in Gli occhi del cuore (seasons 1–2)
• Sergio Fiorentini as Mario La Rochelle, Stanis' father and aspiring actor in Gli Occhi del cuore (season 1)
• Luisa Ranieri as Verena, an actress in Gli occhi del cuore (season 1)
• Margot Sikabonyi as Elena, Alessandro's girlfriend (seasons 1–2)
• Giorgio Tirabassi as Glauco Benetti, director and René's friend (seasons 1–3)
• Corrado Guzzanti as Mariano Giusti, actor in Gli occhi del cuore (season 2)
• Corrado Guzzanti as Father Gabrielli, shady priest and Mariano's agent (season 2)
• Emanuela Grimalda as Biascica's psychoanalyst (season 2)
• Valentina Lodovini as Jasmine, an actress in Medical Dimension (season 3)
• Filippo Timi as Bruno Staffa, the medical consultant for Medical Dimension (season 3)
• Marco Giallini as Valerio, an actor in Medical Dimension (season 3)
• Alessio Praticò as Angelo, an extra in Life of Jesus (season 4)

• Trio Medusa as the hosts of La casa senza bagno (season 2)
• Alessandro Mannarino as the actor playing a nurse in Medical Dimension (season 3)
• Jane Alexander as a spectator at the Rome Fiction Fest (season 3)
• Laura Morante as a housewife (season 3)
• Sergio Brio as himself in Medical Dimension (season 3)
• Paolo Sorrentino as himself (season 3)
• Walter Veltroni as himself (season 4)
• Fabrizio Gifuni as Pierfrancesco Favino disguised as Fabrizio Gifuni (season 4)

• Boris: The Film
• List of Italian television series

• Official Site (in Italian)
• Boris at IMDb