Piloti

The program consists of five-minute unedited "sketch-com" episodes, three of which were broadcast every evening, five days a week. The first season began on 5 April 2017 and included 150 episodes; the third season of 180 episodes began on 20 April 2009. The setting is a budget airline, Piccione Airlines, where Enrico Gasparini (Enrico Bertolino) and Max Conti (Max Tortora) are pilots; many episodes take place in a cockpit. 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. Gasparini and Conti first explored the budget airline setting in a 2003 RAI comedy, Buldozer.