My Brilliant Friend (TV series)
2018 Italian-American television series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age drama television series created by Saverio Costanzo for HBO, RAI, and TIMvision. Named after the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante, the series will adapt the entire literary work into four eight-episode seasons.[2] My Brilliant Friend is a co-production between Italian production companies Wildside, Fandango, The Apartment Pictures, Mowe and international film groups Umedia and Fremantle.
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Created by | Saverio Costanzo |
Based on | Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante |
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Narrated by | Alba Rohrwacher |
Composer | Max Richter |
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No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
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Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 43–67 minutes |
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Release | November 18, 2018 (2018-11-18) – present (present) |
The first two episodes were presented at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, in 2018.[3] The first season premiered on HBO on November 18, 2018, and on Rai 1 and TIMvision on November 27, 2018.[4][5] A second season, based on Ferrante's second Neapolitan Novel and titled My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name (Italian: L'amica geniale – Storia del nuovo cognome), was confirmed in December 2018,[6] and premiered on Rai 1 on February 10, 2020, and on HBO on March 16, 2020.[7][8] The first two episodes of the second season were screened in selected Italian cinemas from January 27 to 29, 2020.[7]
In April 2020, the series was renewed for a third season, based on the third novel in the series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.[9] The eight-episode third season premiered on Rai 1 on February 6, 2022, and on HBO on February 28, 2022.[10][11] In March 2022, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, based on the final novel in Ferrante's series: The Story of the Lost Child.[12]