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Amazon Prime Video is doubling down on sports, reality and romance in Italy, adding NBA games and several new formats, including a local version of global competition hit Traitors, to its Italian lineup, alongside a new slate of original series and TV movies, most of them centered on amore.

Amazon unveiled its upcoming Italian slate at an event in Rome on Thursday, confirming it will broaden its live sports portfolio with the addition of NBA coverage in Italy starting this fall. Under a global media rights agreement, Prime Video will stream 87 regular-season NBA games, alongside postseason fixtures including the NBA Play-In tournament, a Conference Finals series each year and the NBA Finals in select years. This expands on its existing deal to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in Italy through the 2026-27 season.

The slate of nonscripted programming includes The Traitors Italia, a local adaptation of the hit psychological reality competition format,...

The collection “Let's make it weird: Laughing with Italian Comedies” is now showing exclusively on Mubi.Most of us have experienced the joys of watching Italian cinema—not least of which is the delight of laughing at Italian comedies. In the second season of Mubi Podcast: Voci Italiane Contemporanee, we explore how Italian comedy has changed since the days of classic postwar “Commedia all’Italiana,” tracking the evolution of the genre to explore what makes us laugh today and why. Our guide is comedian and cinephile Saverio Raimondo, who has conducted five conversations with contemporary filmmakers, critics, and stand-up comedians. This episode features Luca Vendruscolo and Giacomo Ciarrapico:In a time when Italian comedies were facing a major crisis, Boris, a brilliant independent sitcom, was groundbreaking. In this second episode, we discuss the cult series with Luca Vendruscolo and Giacomo Ciarrapico, who wrote and directed the series along with Mattia Torre.