Il delitto perfetto? Baudrillard al tempo della noir Tv

The contribution invites us to reflect upon the role that crime news has taken on in Italian television in the last few years by generating a new format. The news, judiciary events, and television entertainment seem to have been contaminated by configuring unedited narrative trajectories. In this paper we will reconstruct the narrative architecture of that which appears to be a new “criminal novel”ː hard news stories together with judiciary and sociological ones, are transformed into television series in which storyline and plot arise from real life. Serialization and dramatization are the two rules of the “criminal format”. The key to the success of this new format descends from the idea that reality is never what it seems to be. The players of this reality are seductive in their characterizationsː this time it is life which imitates the art of media representation. In these stories, the fine line between reality and TV disappears definitively. The spectacle has become reality. No longer a reality which disappears in the hyperrealism described by Baudrillard, but a new level of the representation where there is no longer a distinction between the trial and the TV studio. The mystery of Italian crimes is constructed according to interesting media marketing strategies which are sketching a new representation of evil.