Incantesimo is a long-running drama series on Italian television broadcast on the RAI network. It is set in a hospital called Clinica Life in Turin Italy and revolves around the life of the doctors and nurses in the hospital. According to the official website it is "interested in social themes the incoherence of daily life solidarity love and passion not forgetting moments of comedy". Incantesimo was first broadcast in March 1997 is now in its 10th series and has broadcast 400 episodes. Incantesimo is also being broadcast on the Chinese CCTV 8 network dubbed into Mandarin. Many notable Italian actors and actresses have starred in the series including Orso Maria Guerrini Delia Boccardo Kaspar Capparoni Paolo Malco Guido Furlani Alessio Boni Vanessa Gravina Paola Pitagora Alessandra Acciai and Barbara Livi. The series was especially popular in Bulgaria where it was aired on BNT 1 and Nova Television. In Armenia it was aired on ArmeniaTV and TV5 in Russian as well as on Shant TV in Armenian.