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Netflix has announced the launch of Fabrizio Corona: I Am the News (Fabrizio Corona: Io sono la notizia), a five-part documentary series that explores one of the most controversial figures in contemporary Italian media culture.  The series will premiere on 9 January, 2026.

Is Fabrizio Corona a communications genius or a ruthless manipulator? A victim of the system or one of its most skilful architects? Rather than offering a conventional biography of the self-styled “King of the Paparazzi,” the docu-series uses Corona’s rise and fall as a lens through which to examine Italy itself—charting the Berlusconi era, the advent of social media, and the contradictions of the Italian justice system. The result is an unfiltered portrait of a country that, from the 1990s onward, has progressively blurred the line between reality and reality television.

The son of Vittorio Corona, a visionary journalist who helped shape Italian publishing in the 1980s, Fabrizio grows up with an obsessive need to prove himself worthy of his father’s legacy. Where Vittorio sought truth and was ultimately marginalised by the system, Fabrizio chose to conquer that same system from within—turning gossip into a tool of power and redefining success through money, visibility and control. Alongside talent agent Lele Mora, he built a media empire based on the commercialisation of other people’s private lives.

The turning point comes with the Vallettopoli investigation. Accused of extortion, Corona is transformed from media golden boy into public enemy, while simultaneously completing his metamorphosis into a fully fledged character—someone capable of turning his own life into a relentless spectacle. From that moment on, a media and judicial war unfolds, fought through front pages and incendiary statements that polarise Italian public opinion and expose the fragile boundary between truth and performance.

Fabrizio Corona: I Am the News is produced by Bloom Media House and directed by Massimo Cappello. The series is written by Marzia Maniscalco and Massimo Cappello, with art direction by Davide Molla, and produced by Alessandro Casati, Marco Chiappa and Nicola Quarta.