DMAX Italy Live

DMAX Italy is the place for factual entertainment in Italian, aimed at viewers who like engines, adventure and hard graft. The schedule mixes reality shows about cars and trucks, documentaries on nature and disasters, crime stories and survival programmes such as Bear Grylls' series, plus Top Gear and the many editions of Airport Security, which follow the officers who check passengers and luggage at airports in Canada, Europe and New Zealand.

Italian productions get plenty of room. In Affari a 4 ruote Italia, used cars are bought, restored and sold on; Camionisti in trattoria tours the roadside trattorias where lorry drivers eat; Unti e bisunti hunts down street food; Micromostri con Barbascura X looks at the tiny creatures most people never notice; and Milano City Tattoo is set in a Milan tattoo studio. Mr. Oro – Tutto ha un prezzo follows the haggling in a chain of shops that buy and sell gold.

TG DMAX brings the news at several points in the day, followed by the weather. Run by Discovery Italia, the channel has been on air since 2011 and sits on channel 52 of Italian digital terrestrial television, in HD since 2022. It is a good pick for anyone who enjoys cars, adventure and stories of people doing tough jobs.