“Gomorrah” star Salvatore Esposito will star as the show’s lead. – “Piedone”: A series that mines a 1970s Italian IP titled “Piedone lo Sbirro,” which is a franchise of hit films starring Bud Spencer as a police inspector nicknamed “Bigfoot.” These movies have cult status in Germany. Stefano Sardo, whose credits include the Italian version of “In Treatment” and also Sky’s “1992,” “1993” and “1994,” is the head writer. Banditi a Milano.” It intends to further Sky’s trend of Italian criminal sagas that kicked off with “Romanzo Criminale” (“Crime Novel”) and segued most notably with “Gomorrah,” the milestone show that is Italy’s top TV export. – “La Mala” (working title): This series on the Milanese mob in the ’70s is a spinoff of Sky docuseries “La Mala. See other upcoming Sky Italia originals below. “With him on board we will be bolstering our European distribution side,” Hartmann said, noting that NBCUniversal, which has been handling global distribution of some Sky Italia content, is U.S.-based. He also announced that former BBC Studios director of commissioning and co-production Tobi de Graaff has been appointed as SVP commercial of Sky Studios. Hartmann also praised Italy’s version of “Call My Agent,” the first season of which featured Paolo Sorrentino among its stars and aired successfully on Sky in January, noting that “it would have been really easy to get it wrong.” Hartmann added that “more than volume, what counts is the continuous growth of our ambition,” noting that “M,” which will air in 2024, takes Sky Italia originals to the next level, both “in terms of creative vision and in terms of production expenditure,” which he declined to reveal. “We are at the level of eight Sky originals a year, which I think puts us among Italy’s top scripted content producers in terms of volume,” Nils Hartmann, EVP Sky Studios Italy and Germany, told Variety.
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