Maurizio Costanzo was an Italian television host, journalist, screenwriter, and film director best known as one of Italy’s leading prime-time talk show hosts and most prominent television journalists. He was credited for being the inventor of contemporary Italian television. Costanzo was a reporter for his high school newspaper in Rome. After high school he never attended college but was writing for an evening daily in Rome at age 17. He soon diversified and started writing magazine articles, ra... moreMaurizio Costanzo was an Italian television host, journalist, screenwriter, and film director best known as one of Italy’s leading prime-time talk show hosts and most prominent television journalists. He was credited for being the inventor of contemporary Italian television. Costanzo was a reporter for his high school newspaper in Rome. After high school he never attended college but was writing for an evening daily in Rome at age 17. He soon diversified and started writing magazine articles, radio programs, screenplays and books. In the Bontà Loro was the first show he hosted, however the show that made him a national star was the Maurizio Costanzo Show. Costanzo also wrote the screenplays for several films. In 1977 he wrote and directed his first film, Melodrammore. He once waged war with the Mafia expressing his opinion , something that almost got him killed.
