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| Introducing Il Commissario Ricciardi... |
I am indebted once again to the excellent Neapolitan blogger Angelo Forgione for alerting me to the work of the Film Commission Regione Campania (FCRC) in promoting Naples and Campania as a brilliant setting for making films and TV programmes.
And that led to my discovery of a brand-new cop drama, Il Commissario Ricciardi, which started on RAI this week and which is set in the Naples of the Fascist-era 1930s.
RAI, of course, was behind the wonderful Inspector Montalbano series, arguably the best detective show of recent times – on so many levels. But while Montalbano had a particularly unorthodox knack of getting to the truth, Ricciardi seems to have his own eccentric advantage – the ability to pick up the last words and thoughts of those meeting with violent deaths.
I sincerely hope we won't have to wait too long for Ricciardi to follow in Montalbano's footsteps and make it onto UK television.
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| Montalbano and his men |