Le Iene

Le Iene

"Le Iene" ("The Hyenas") is a television program broadcast on the Italian channel Italia 1 since 1996. It is a comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports, based on an adaptation of the Argentine show "Caiga Quien Caiga".

The first edition came lead from Simona Ventura, Dario Cassini and Peppe Quintale. Between the many conductors who are themselves alternated to the conduction of the program we find also: Fabio Volo, Enrico Lucci, Andrea Pellizzari, Alessia Marcuzzi, Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu, Luciana Littizzetto and several conductions for a evening. Characteristic moments of the show, besides the journalistic inquiries, are the double interviews, in which two famous personages puttinges to comparison come answering to the same questions. The Iberian version (transmitted on Telecinco) had to close for the audience, but the program then it returned and it is now with good audience). In 2008, such version changes network and goes on Sexta.

"Le Iene" was also the release name in Italy for the film "Reservoir Dogs", and all the presenters on the show wear (like the protagonists of that movie) trademark black suits, white shirts and black ties.

Parliamentary drugs controversy

In October 2006, reporters from Le Iene covertly tested deputies of Italy's lower house of parliament for drugs, by claiming to be performing TV interviews about the budget, when in fact the "make-up artist" preparing the deputies for the camera was actually swabbing their faces for samples to be tested for drugs.

Of the 50 samples from deputies, almost one third tested positive for drug use in the previous 36 hours; 12 for cannabis and 4 for cocaine.

When deputies discovered the ruse, they lobbied, on privacy grounds, for broadcast of the pertinent episode of the show to be blocked, which it was.

ee also

*Caiga Quien Caiga

External links

* [http://www.iene.mediaset.it/ Official Le Iene website]
* [http://www.italia1.com/ Official Italia 1 website]
* [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Iene_(programma_televisivo) Wikipedia italian page]
* [http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2006/10_Ottobre/10/iene.shtml News article (translated into English) from Il Corriere della Sera about the parliamentary drugs scandal]
* [http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics&id=4654588 News article from ABC News about the parliamentary drugs scandal]


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