Season 1 (2016)
Rocco’s Hard Academy is the world’s first university of porn. A boot camp where 16 aspiring men and women actors, story editors and directors will learn how to work in the porn industry.
Episodes: 25
Star Cast: Rocco Siffredi , Carolina Abril , Gabriele Galetta ,
Episodes List
Ep.1 Episode 1
Air Date: 2016-04-11
Charting a new course after retiring from acting, Rocco shoots a recruiting video to attract students to the world's first "porn university."
Ep.2 Episode 2
Air Date: 2016-04-12
His office flooded with applications, Rocco and his team interview promising candidates to select the academy's first 14 students.
Ep.3 Episode 3
Air Date: 2016-04-13
With the help of adult film stars Carolina Abril and Lara De Santis, Rocco auditions more candidates for the academy -- men and women alike.
Ep.4 Episode 4
Air Date: 2016-04-14
Porn veteran Valeria Visconti joins Rocco and the judges as they screen the last round of candidates hoping to join the academy in Budapest.
Ep.5 Episode 5
Air Date: 2016-04-15
Rocco puts the finishing touches on the campus in Budapest. On their first night at the academy, the actors face a pair of surprise challenges.
Ep.6 Episode 6
Air Date: 2016-04-16
After taking a blood test, the students tackle their first day of classes. An unexpected departure throws Rocco's confidence in his project.
Ep.7 Episode 7
Air Date: 2016-04-17
Hoping to lighten the mood, Rocco organizes a volleyball game with a special surprise for the winners. Rocco helps one actor with performance anxiety.
Ep.8 Episode 8
Air Date: 2016-04-18
The class gets a primer on classic porn characters, then heads to the dungeon for a hands-on lesson in submission and domination.
Ep.9 Episode 9
Air Date: 2016-04-19
Rocco and Gabriele clash over the day's lesson, which includes a cold hosing-down to teach the students about working in decidedly unsexy conditions.
Ep.10 Episode 10
Air Date: 2016-04-20
In the classroom, the students learn the finer points of sexual positions performed for the camera, then try them out on the set of a pro porn shoot.
Ep.11 Episode 11
Air Date: 2016-04-21
Rocco submits to a "casting" for a sex toy modeled literally on his physique, and meets with a group of women filmmakers producing a new kind of porn.
Ep.12 Episode 12
Air Date: 2016-04-22
A reporter asks Rocco about his career's effect on his family. Students reflect on the emotional toll of the school. The class gets a night out.
Ep.13 Episode 13
Air Date: 2016-04-23
Four actresses arrive at the academy to help as Rocco guides the students through the stages of capturing the action on film.
Ep.14 Episode 14
Air Date: 2016-04-24
Rocco explains how to interpret a role and gives tips for maintaining concentration and virility on the set, then puts the students to the test.
Ep.15 Episode 15
Air Date: 2016-04-25
Rocco teaches the students how to use all their senses while performing, then introduces "Porn 2.0," where the actors film themselves during a scene.
Ep.16 Episode 16
Air Date: 2016-04-26
The students must run the gauntlet on a paintball course while dressed as giant phalluses. Later, Rocco offers the student-directors some tips.
Ep.17 Episode 17
Air Date: 2016-04-27
Rocco takes some time off from the academy with Gabriele to enjoy a massage and explore another business venture: creating a new porn web series.
Ep.18 Episode 18
Air Date: 2016-04-28
Rocco turns the actors loose to begin work on the class's final projects and confers with the directors about achieving a personal style.
Ep.19 Episode 19
Air Date: 2016-04-29
Rocco and Gabriele review the students' film projects and struggle to judge whether the pupils took the academy's lessons to heart.
Ep.20 Episode 20
Air Date: 2016-04-30
With classes now at an end, Rocco prepares a graduation ceremony and celebration. After receiving their diplomas, the students cut loose.
Ep.21 Episode 21
Air Date: 2016-05-01
In this alternate cut of the show's first episode, Rocco gets the ball rolling recruiting students for his new "porn university."
Ep.22 Episode 22
Air Date: 2016-05-02
After welcoming the students to the academy, Rocco introduces their tutors and leads a field trip to the set of a professional porn shoot.
Ep.23 Episode 23
Air Date: 2016-05-03
Rocco offers the students lessons about domination and submission, working with different types of characters and performing for the camera.
Ep.24 Episode 24
Air Date: 2016-05-04
The students learn how to use all their senses to maintain concentration on set, then get a lesson in filming themselves while performing.
Ep.25 Episode 25
Air Date: 2016-05-05
Rocco turns the students loose to begin work on their final film projects, then judges their work before throwing a wild graduation party.
