''I Hate Christmas'' () is an Italian

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...

television series based on the Norwegian series '' Home for Christmas''. It was first released on

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on 7 December 2022.

Plot

Gianna is a nurse from

Chioggia Chioggia (; , ; ) is a coastal town and (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Geography The town is located on a small island at the southern entrance to the Venetian Lagoon about sou ...

who is happily single but determined to avoid the usual questioning about her love life during the holidays, so she devises a plan to find a boyfriend to take home for Christmas.

Cast

Main

Pilar Fogliati Pilar Fogliati (; born María Del Pilar Fogliati; 28 December 1992) is an Italian actress and filmmaker. Life and career Born in Alessandria to Roman parents who were there spending the Christmas holidays, Fogliati grew up in Mentana, near Rom ...

as Gianna * Beatrice Arnera as Titti * Fiorenza Pieri as Margherita * Massimo Rigo as Pietro * Sabrina Paravicini as Marta * Simonetta Solder as the ''caposala'' * Glen Blackhall as Umberto * Alan Cappelli Goetz as Diego * Alessio Praticò as Mario * Cecilia Bertozzi as Caterina

Recurring

* Marzia Ubaldi as Matilde Castoldi *

Nicolas Maupas Nicolas Maupas (born 29 October 1998) is an Italian-French actor. He is best known for playing Filippo Ferrari in the Italian drama television series '' The Sea Beyond'' (2020–2023) and Simone Balestra in the teen comedy series '' Un professore ...

as Davide * Marco Rossetti as Carlo * Marcos Piacentini as Thomas * Gabriele Falsetta as Patrizio * Giovanni Anzaldo as Nicola * Giorgia Boscolo Todaro as Lisa * Riccardo Boscolo Todaro as Giacomo * Federico Calistri as Giulio * Raniero Monaco di Lapio as Francesco *

Andrea Di Stefano Andrea Di Stefano (born 15 December 1972) is an Italian actor and film director. Life and career Born in Rome, he moved to New York City to study acting at the Actors Studio. In the U.S., he appeared in ''Smile'', an independent movie directed ...

as Dante Crisanti * Raffele Esposito as Genny * Gabriella D'Este as Gabriella * Luigi Gallo as Guido * Giulia Gonella as Silvia *

Astrid Meloni Astrid Meloni (born 11 March 1982) is an Italian actress. Biography Meloni was born in Sassari. Her father is Sardinian and her mother, who is of Eritrean descent, was born in Asmara and raised in Sardinia. At the age of 18, she left her hometow ...

as Nina

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1

Season 2

Production

The series was filmed in Chioggia,

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

, and

Susegana Susegana is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about north of Treviso. History Traces of human presence from the late Bronze Age have been found in Susegana area ...

. It was renewed for a second season in February 2023.

References

External links

*
I Hate Christmas
' on

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