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Kevin Spacey Returns to TV for First Time Since House of Cards with Italian Comedy Series Minimarket

Spacey returns to TV in a 10-episode Italian comedy on RaiPlay, marking his first role since 2017 and a career effort after recent legal challenges.

  • Starting Dec. 26, the ten-episode Minimarket will stream on RAI's RaiPlay with Kevin Spacey starring in the Italian comedy series for Italy's state broadcaster RAI.
  • Kevin Spacey has been trying to resuscitate his career in recent years via international projects after his 2017 firing from Netflix series House of Cards amid misconduct allegations.
  • Playing himself, Kevin Spacey serves as an unpredictable mentor and artistic conscience to Filippo Laganò's Manlio Viganò, with promo clips showing them singing Randy Newman song 'You've Got a Friend in Me' and Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin'.
  • Amid ongoing legal disputes, the series' launch places Kevin Spacey back in the public eye; he was acquitted in the 2023 U.K. criminal trial but faces three civil claims to be heard in London next year.
  • Italy has been a recurring base for Spacey's recent projects, including L'uomo Che Disegnò Dio , The Awakening, Holiguards, and Peter Five Eight.
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American actor Kevin Spacey returns this year to the screen in one of the main roles of the "Minimarket" comedy series, performed by Italian television.

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Kevin Spacey will return to the small screen for the first time since 2017, when he was fired from Netflix’s House of Cards in the midst of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior that marked the abrupt collapse of his career in Hollywood. The American actor will star in the Italian comedy series Minimarket, a low-budget production for the state radio station RAI, which will premiere on December 26 through the RaiPlay platform, Variety repo…

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Variety broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
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