Italian broadcaster La7 presented its 2025-26 programming slate in Milan, revealing a mix of high-profile investigative series and the renewal of its best-known journalists. Owner Urbano Cairo confirmed that Enrico Mentana will remain director of the TgLa7 newscast, describing it as “the only Italian news bulletin still growing.” Cairo said the channel’s audience rose 9% in prime time and 14% across the day in the 2024-25 season, while advertising revenue advanced about 5% in the first half of 2025. Among the new shows, anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri will host the four-episode "Lezioni di mafie," and writer Roberto Saviano will front the six-part "La Giusta distanza," both focused on organised crime. Journalist Ezio Mauro returns in prime time with two biographical specials on Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis, while actor Fabrizio Gifuni, guided by former magistrate Gherardo Colombo, will narrate the story of the secret P2 masonic lodge. La7 also renewed contracts with on-air personalities Aldo Cazzullo, Diego Bianchi, Giovanni Floris, Corrado Formigli, Massimo Gramellini and Lilli Gruber. Network director Andrea Salerno said historians Alessandro Barbero and satirist Corrado Guzzanti remain free to develop projects “whenever they wish,” underscoring the channel’s strategy of pairing established talent with new investigative formats to sustain its growth trajectory.