The third season of “A Professor” returns tonight: what time and where to see the return of Dante Balestra

From this evening, November 20th, it returns in prime time on Rai 1 A Professor with the third season. Alessandro Gassmann again plays Dante Balestra, the philosophy teacher who won over the public thanks to his way of teaching complex authors and at the same time dealing with students’ personal problems. The new season will last six evenings.

The plot

The plot starts from a moment of great fragility for Dante. After overcoming an illness and recovering his relationship with his son, he goes into crisis and thinks about leaving school. The question is whether the “dream professor” can really abandon his role. Anita returns to the series, played by Claudia Pandolfi, called for a substitute role in the same high school. Simone and Manuel also return, the two boys linked by a deep friendship.

The news

Among the new features emerge the presence of the new principal, played by Nicole Grimaudo, attracted by Dante but characterized by a rigid approach and a difficult relationship with her daughter, and the new physics teacher, played by Dario Aita, a charismatic figure who immediately wins sympathy and generates both professional and sentimental tensions, in particular with Anita. With Dante, however, the relationship is complicated and has its roots in the past.

The fiction is inspired by the Catalan series Merlìbroadcast in Spain between 2015 and 2018. It also gave rise to a volume published by Rai Libri, A Professor – Before it all beginswritten by Anna Cherubini, set in Torre del Greco a year before the events told in the television series, where Dante is committed to fighting crime through philosophy and living with the pain of the death of his son Jacopo.

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What time and where to see the series A Professor 3

The appointment is scheduled for 9.30pm on Rai 1 and the episode will be available in streaming on RaiPlay immediately after broadcast. The programming continues for six consecutive first evenings. The character of Dante Balestra has become a symbol of a different way of understanding school, capable of educating and growing.

The success of A Professor is not accidental. The fiction has won over the public because it tells of real fragilities through a character who does not limit himself to teaching, but enters the lives of those in front of him. Dante Balestra worked because he proposes an educational model far from academic rigidity and close to the emotional needs of adolescents. The series was able to mix school themes, family dynamics, feelings and moments of strong impact, without losing credibility. The public identified with the conflicts of the protagonists and found in Dante a reference capable of combining empathy and rigor. His return to prime time confirms not only the strength of the character, but also the growing demand for stories that talk about growth, mistakes and restarts. In an often uniform television landscape.

A Professor has stood out for authenticity and narrative continuity, and the debut of the third season comes in response to a clear request: the audience still wants to hear his lessons.