| Genre: | Sitcom |
| Director: | Celeste Laudisio |
| Producer: | Rosario Rinaldo |
| Company: | Magnolia Fiction |
| Runtime: | 5 mins |
| Starring: | Enrico Bertolino Max Tortora |
| Country: | Italy |
| Network: | Rai 2 |
| Num Seasons: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 459 |
Piloti is an Italian sitcom, produced by Magnolia TV and aired on Rai 2 for three seasons starting in spring 2007 and ending in fall 2011.
The programme consists of five-minute unedited "sketch-com" episodes, three of which were broadcast every evening, five days a week.[1] [2] The first season began on 5 April 2007 and ended on 27 September and included 150 episodes;[1] [3] the second season began on 15 November 2008 and ended on 10 August and included 216 episodes;[4] the third season of 43 episodes began on 30 March 2011 and ended on 21 December.[2] Among the three seasons, there are also about 100 unaired episodes.
The setting is a budget airline, Piccione Airlines, where Enrico Gasparini and Max Conti (Max Tortora) are pilots; many episodes take place in a cockpit.[5] Some characters, including the company head (Gianni Quillico) and Gasparini's wife (Carla Chiarelli) are unseen, heard on the crew's mobile phones or on aircraft communications.[1]
Gasparini and Conti first explored the budget airline setting in a 2003 RAI comedy, Bulldozer.[3] [6]
Pamela Prati guest starred in Series 3 as the wife of an important politician.[2]
Piloti won a 2008 Rose d'Or award in the sitcom category.[7]