Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a two-part Italian-British miniseries adapted from Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. Classed as a fantasy and children's production, it runs 188 minutes in total and was filmed in English. It aired on Rai 1 on 1 and 2 November and drew a large Italian audience: 7.7 million people watched the first episode and 7.4 million the second. The production was also distributed as a television film.

Alberto Sironi directed from a script by Ivan Cotroneo. Robbie Kay plays Pinocchio and Bob Hoskins plays Geppetto. Luciana Littizzetto takes the part of the Talking Cricket, here reimagined as a woman, while Alessandro Gassmann plays Collodi himself. The cast also includes Margherita Buy, Francesco Pannofino, Violante Placido, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Joss Ackland and Maurizio Donadoni.

Shooting took place in Italy, in the Lazio and Tuscany regions. In France the series was shown as Pinocchio, un cœur de bois and in Russia as Волшебная история Пиноккио.