«POsso buy a vowel? ” It is the symbol phrase of A program that made the history of Italian televisionready to return the protagonist of the prime time access of Canale 5. From today, Monday 14 July at 8.40 pm aired The wheel of luck. One (beautiful) novelty that marks a small revolution in the summer schedules of Mediaset.
The wheel of luck On Canale 5 with Gerry Scotti, advances, news
At the helm of the show there is still Gerry Scotti, flanked by Samira him. The wheel returns to turn but with a renewed format: new heats and a prize pool to be made to turn the head, which can go up to 200,000 eurosThe stated goal? Conquer the public of the band that acts as a bridge between the daytime and the first evening.
An international phenomenon that crosses time
The wheel of luck It is not a simple quiz, but a piece of television history. The Italian version was born from the adaptation of the US format Wheel of Fortunebroadcast on the NBC since 1975. And in the United States it is still a phenomenon today. In Italy, the program debuted as a game within Canale 5 containers in the 1980s, and then became an autonomous program on Odeon TV in the 1987/1988 season. The real explosion, however, arrives with Mike Bongiorno, from 1989 (the year in which he was joined by Ylenia Carrisi) until 2003.
Gerry Scotti and Samira Him (Mediaset)
The wheel of luck It is the flagship of the Mediaset entertainment
Among the most loved programs of Mediaset, The wheel of luck He also aired on Rete 4, to return from 2027 to 2009 on Italia 1 with the conduct of Enrico Papi. Since 2024, after 14 years of absence, he has returned to Canale 5 with Gerry Scotti. From today again in the saddle.
The wheel of luck It is an international format that airs in 60 countries, with a global audience of about 100 million spectators. To them will be added the Italian public who will follow the new episodes broadcast from today.
A revolution in the summer schedule, starting today
The choice to place the wheel of fortune in access prime time marks one real revolution in the summer schedule of Canale 5. The band that precedes the first evening is one of the most strategic And this move is the first piece of a wider project.
This was confirmed by Pier Silvio Berlusconi, CEO of Mediaset: «To evolve you must experimentand do it already from the summer shows our determination to risk and innovate “.
As, Paperissima sprint Just from today I move to Italia 1, at 13:50. AND Strip the news? Will return to Novemberlate compared to the habits of recent years.
Gerry Scotti and Samira: winning couple between consonants and vowels
Gerry Scotti, already the protagonist of the last edition, will also be the landlord of this new summer edition. And next to him Samira returns, a competitor of the Big Brother 17 In 2023 which manages the letters of the letters here And therefore, from time to time, it tells curiosity and anecdotes.
Samira had already joined Gerry from 6 May to 2 June 2024 and from 2 September 2024 to 19 January 2025.
The wheel of luckthe novelties of 2025 with record prizes
The heart of the game remains the legendary wheel with the 24 colored wedges, but the format is richer: in a completely renewed, bigger study, there is in fact a live music bandwhich accompanies the musical heats and the highlights of the program.
Among the heats, “The wheel of time” stands out, dedicated to historical events and cultural curiosities.
And again, there will be the heats “Express”: if the competitor ends on the Express wedge, from this year he is forced to continue the heats alone, without turning the wheel more and calling consonants of 500 euros up to the error or solution. If it is wrong, it goes bankrupt.
What changes and what remains of the original format?
The basic rules remain the historical ones: Three competitors, wheel turns, consonants to guess, possibility of buying a vowel and feared wedges “bonds” and “bankruptcy”.
The latter, in particular, is the most feared: it no longer loses only the partial prize pool of the heat, but the entire booty accumulated up to that moment in the episode.
The Jolly Gerry, however, allows you to keep your hand even after an error, after a budget or even after a bankruptcy.
The new final game is “The wheel of wonders”
The real revolution concerns the final phase, renamed “The wheel of wonders”. The sample fishing three envelopes, each containing a phrase to guess. In 60 seconds all three must solve thempassing from one to the other saying “stop” if it considers it appropriate.
There is a prize pool that thanks to a doubling mechanism can go up to 200,000 eurosa figure never reached in the history of the program.
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