P.rhyme the memory of Queen Elizabeth. And then ready with the presentation of the 47th edition of Sunday In (at the start on Rai 1 Sunday 11 September at 2 pm). The fourteenth of Mara Venierbroken the record of Pippo Baudo, who has conducted 13 editions. And there’s more, because at the dawn of 2023, Mara Venier will celebrate 30 years since its first dated run 1993. Which was quite daring.
Sunday Infirst program conducted by Mara
“We were many, Monica Vitti was also there. I should have just played a little game. Then Luca Giurato pulled back because he wanted to deal only with the journalistic part, Don Antonio Mazzi would have dealt only with social issues… So it was my turn ”, he recalled today at the presentation of the new edition.
How will the new season be
Some clues were given by Simona Sala, the director of the new Rai Daytime Entertainment Directorate: «It will be an edition built by Mara Venier, around her. Her presence is intergenerational. Mara is pop, not trash. She entertains, informs and moves ». At the behest of Sala, who is also a journalist, information will be one of the strong points of the upcoming edition. «I believe that such difficult moments cannot be faced without reaching depthbut without ever forgetting the lightness, ”he said.
Mara Venier. (Press office)
Focus on violence against women
Without speaking, Mara Venier and Simona Sala immediately found a meeting point: address the fight against violence against women. «In an interview on the Corriere della Sera with Aldo Cazzullo I focused on the theme, on which I have always had a lot of attention. I did not know that Simona was talking to everyone to bring to the fore the theme in all broadcasts»Explained Mara.
A new acronym
Another novelty is the new theme song, which for the first time was composed ad hoc at the express request of Mara Venier. It is called An exceptional dayauthors Andrea Sannino and Franco Ricciardi, “Two Neapolitan artists that I love and to whom I wanted to give the opportunity to enter a program like this”.
Mara Venier, the unpredictability in power
Apart from that, unpredictability is one of the strong points of Mara Venier’s management. “I have a script, but I twist everything live, I live the program emotionally. Suddenly, I never know what’s going to happen because I fall in love with who I have in front of me. And they open up, talking about topics that I would never have thought of dealing with “, tells. Then she reveals: “I wouldn’t be able to follow a script, I couldn’t follow a hunchback. I never have written questions for respondents: I listen a lot, in addition to the files that my authors prepare for methere is an upstream preparation. I never go out on Saturday nights and I read all the interviews I find about my guest of the “one to one” interview ».
Loretta Goggi, the first guest of the season
To open the chapter of the interviews will be, once again, Loretta Goggi. «Having Loretta in the first episode is a superstitious fact. I’m safe with her and there’s never anything repetitive, ”he explains. “And then there will be a surprise: Alberto Matano arrives and interviews us both”, he says, taking everyone off guard and revealing, in fact, the surprise that fades. “You see … I am like this: I am sincere, I don’t know how to keep secrets and I don’t have any. Not average, I am clarity personified and this can be unsettling ».
Loretta Goggi, during the Rai 1 television broadcast “Tale e Quali Show”, 2017. (Ansa)
The “Aunt Mara”
This type of transparency, however, has two sides. «The way I am you either hate me or love me. But I’ve never betrayed a friendship. On the other hand I have been betrayed many times », continues Venier, for all” Zia Mara “. «Being an aunt is beautiful, of course when the 80 or 90 year olds tell me it is not that I am very pleased. It’s better when Achille Lauro tells me », he laughs.
The future of Sunday In
«Every year I say this is the last, then I can’t resist why Sunday In he gave me everything, starting with the affection of the public. After all, “Every scaraffone is beautiful to mom I know” », underlines the presenter. An affection that, if possible, was amplified during the pandemic. “I had decided not to go on the air and I stopped for a Sunday: my husband is older than me, he has lung disease, I was afraid. Then Stefano Coletta (who was the network manager, editor’s note) asked me to reconsider: after 10 ‘I said yes. But I used to cry during every commercial break, ”he recalls. “From that moment I have had credibility. I am happy to have aired and brought some laughs. It’s nice – he concludes – when people stop me and thank me ».
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