Italian to English Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama Work

This is a description of a businessman who opened a TV station in country X and engaged people from the Italian TV scene. Text mentions well-known programmes like Striscia La Notizia, Che Tempo Fa, and what these became called in language X of country X. Then there is this sentence: Y(the protagonist who had worked with the Italian station) ha proprio partecipato alla Striscia taroccata, Z (another Italian TV personality) è stata invece la conduttrice di un programma, Contratto per l'Albania, in cui ha intervistato i politici, tra cui l'ex-presidente della Repubblica, Bamir Topi. Has taroccata anything to do with tarot cards, as I have not found the word and I do not always follow Striscia la Notizia. Thank you.