Drag Race Italia
Drag Race Italia is an Italian reality competition television series based on the original American series RuPaul's Drag Race and part of the Drag Race franchise. The series is produced by World of Wonder for Discovery+ in Italy, and subsequently free-to-air on Real Time (season 1–2) and, beginning with the third season, Paramount+. The show is also available worldwide on WOW Presents Plus.
| Drag Race Italia | |
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| Genre | Reality competition |
| Based on | RuPaul's Drag Race |
| Directed by | Marco Manes |
| Presented by | Priscilla |
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| Opening theme | RuPaul's Drag Race theme |
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer | Dimitri Cocciuti |
| Running time | 70–95 minutes |
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| Network | Discovery+ (2021–2022) MTV and Paramount+ (2023) |
| Release | 18 November 2021 – present |
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| Drag Race franchise | |
Drag Race Italia is the eighth international adaptation of the American reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, following Chilean, Thai, British, Canadian, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand, and Spanish versions. It has been followed by French, Filipino, Belgian, Swedish, Mexican, Brazilian, and German iterations.
Drag Race Italia debuted on 19 November 2021 on Discovery+. Episodes premiere on a weekly basis every Thursday, and later aired on Real Time on primetime. Starting with the third season, the series premiere on streaming platform Paramount+, and later on MTV on primetime.
Elecktra Bionic, won the first season, with Farida Kant and Le Riche as runners-up, while Luquisha Lubamba was named Miss Congeniality. In March 2022, the series was renewed for a second season. La Diamond won the second season. In March 2023, the series was renewed for a third season.