Dream of Italy — presented by PBS member station WTTW Chicago, distributed by American Public Television, and directed by Dakkan Abbe, who created the public television series Inside the Tuscan Hills — began airing 16 May 2015. It sounds great!
update on June 29:
get back, lauretta! 
No, I haven’t seen anything about it. I’ll do a little searching. You must be so excited to get back to Florence. I’m hoping that we are able to visit within the next year. Our friends just returned from a month in Italy; a trip that ended badly with a nightmarish hospital stay in Sicily. Not an English speaker on staff, but they made it home finally.
We’re traveling from yet another hospital stay in Vancouver for Guy’s Dad; it’s so hard.
Xoxo Pam
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I saw two episodes last night on Youtube. Very good and of course very beautiful! Come see me in Florence or wherever I may be living when you get to Europe!