Pto celebrate “mamma Rai”’s birthday this evening it airs at 9.30pm on Rai 1 The TV is 70a special created and hosted by Massimo Gilettiupon his return to Rai after seven years. Structured as a journey through time through historical faces and programmes of Italian public television, the blockbuster show (which will last until well past midnight) will be enriched by the presence of beloved characters of yesterday and today. From the legendary Pippo Baudo to today’s protagonists Amadeus, Fiorello and Antonella Clerici.
The TV is 70the program hosted by Massimo Giletti on Rai 1
Era on 3 January 1954, 70 years ago, when Rai entered Italian homes for the first time by broadcasting the “regular television service” broadcasts. 2024 will be a year full of celebrationsstarting right from tonight’s event hosted and created by Massimo Giletti. Upon his return to Rai after the breakup in 2017, after the closure of his historic Sunday afternoon program The arena.
The evening is structured as a sort of sequence shot: it will take viewers to the programs that have written important pages on public television. From the great Saturday night variety shows to the Sanremo Festivalswithout forgetting the birth of the news and afternoon entertainment. There will be a tribute to the talk showinvented on Rai 1 by the late Maurizio Costanzo.
To embellish this journey, the acronyms that, from the 1960s to today, have accompanied the lives of each of us. And, to interpret them, artists of the caliber of Noemi and Giorgia will paradeFrancesco Gabbani, Angelina Mango, Colapesce and Dimartino and Gaia. A celebratory broadcast therefore, but at the same time pleasant and entertaining which will not follow a chronological order, but it will focus on the themes, on the great characters and, precisely, on the acronyms.
The guests of the evening event. From Pippo Baudo to Amadeus
On an evening like this they couldn’t be missed two “founding fathers” of Rai. That is, Pippo Baudo and Renzo Arborestar performers for many decades programs that have entered the history of Italian public television. Together with them, in the block that will tell the story of the birth of the talk show, we will find Bruno Vespa and Enrico Mentana While Iva Zanicchi and Simona Ventura will compete on what has been (and what will be) television from one female perspective. Between censorship, clashes and conquests.
Other prestigious guests which will be shown in Giletti’s studio: Amadeus, Carlo Conti, Antonella Clerici, Fiorello, Paolo Bonolis, Alberto Angela, Giancarlo Magalli, Maria De Filippi and Serena Rossi. But also Marisa Laurito, Claudia Gerini, Piero Chiambretti, Francesca FagnaniNina Soldano, Andy Luotto and Vito Molinari.
Massimo Giletti at the press conference to present “TV goes 70”. (HANDLE)
The back and forth with Mara Venier and the controversy with Fazio
In the roundup of historic Rai faces the absences of Mara Venier and Fabio Fazio stand out. Two personalities who have in the last thirty years filled the small screen with many successful programs.
The presenter of Sunday In a few days ago he hosted Giletti on his show, underlining (a little piqued) that she had not received any invitation. Giletti responded to the provocation by declaring «You never know», then turning to the camera he stated «Mara will be there somehow, you’ll see».
Different tones instead those reserved for Fazio. In fact, Giletti, again at the press conference, declared that he had invited Fazio without receiving any response. «I was disappointed, he gave so much to Rai, I would have liked to tell it» said the journalist «We can see that the old professional rivalry between us has weighed more». Statements that Fazio preferred not to comment on.
Giletti’s statements at the press conference
Seven years after the closure of The arenathe host and journalist is returned to viale Mazzini from the main door. Especially afterwards the farewell, with related controversies, to La7 last year.
Massimo Giletti. (Getty Images)
«By returning to Rai I found the people I grew up with, they are difficult emotions to describe» Giletti began in the press conference. To then tell something more about the special The TV is 70. «Contrary to what one might think, it won’t be a show based entirely on Teche: we wanted to avoid the risk of creating a pedagogical product. We then decided to bring the story back to life through current television faces».
Finally, regarding his television future, Giletti explained that, at the moment, it is still early to know if he will return to Rai with its own in-depth programme. «For now I’m on trial, we will have to redo the board of directors, we will see what will happen. The important thing is to have more offers. I will do something, but I don’t know where and with whom».
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