For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayGomorrahSky Atlantic, 9pmRoberto Saviano, the anti-mafia author on whose books this gritty crime drama is based, was in the news last year when Italy’s populist interior minister, Matteo Salvini, sued after Saviano called him the “minister of the underworld”. Saviano claimed that the right-wing League (Lega Nord), the half of Italy’s ruling coalition led by Salvini, was supported by organised crime as it sought to increase its political presence in southern Italy. As well as suing for defamation, Salvini has threatened to lift Saviano’s police escort, which has been in place since the Camorra mafia issued death threats against the author after the publication of his book Gomorrah in 2006.…

Source: The Times June 18, 2019 22:52 UTC