And so Fiorello he greeted everyone and brought the curtain down on “VivaRai2!” indefinitely. The Sicilian showman had said it and promised: “No move to Nove, I will move to my sofa”. And he will speak his word. “I can’t even think of such public success. – said Fiorello – When you start and you are in the month of October and you think that we will finish on May 10th it seems like a feat. Then after the first week you think now we’ll rest but instead we’re there every day, after months of inactivity it’s very hard.”
LAST, AMADEUS AND JOVANOTTI FOR THE FINAL CELEBRATIONS – And again: “I am on video consecutively from Baglioni’s Sanremo. I never stopped, theater show with 200 dates, 6 Sanremo, Viva Raiplay with the launch of the platform, two editions of Viva Rai2: now we need a break. Return to Sanremo? It would be a strategic mistake, after six Festivals we need at least six more without being seen.” Among the guests of the final also Amadeus, his traveling companion at the Sanremo Festival: “Friendship with him? It’s a brotherhood.” Connecting from the Olimpico Ultimo stadium he performed on the piano in his new song entitled “Altrove” and Fiorello joined him by crossing the tunnel and then singing “Albachiara” by Vasco. Expected for months, it has finally appeared, after recent health problems, Jovanotti, who greeted the audience to the tune of a remix of “Azzurro”. The artist then announced: “I’ll be back on tour in 2025”.
BIGGIO’S EMOTION – Last episode finished Fabrizio Biggio, Fiorello’s sidekick in the 230 episodes, was unable to hold back his tears in front of the microphones. “An incredible emotion, it’s surreal, you know when you wake up from a dream and ask yourself: ‘did it really happen or not?’ And then it’s difficult to talk, the episode has just finished. Tears come out of my eyes, I’m moved. Incredible adventure, we’re enjoying this moment, I don’t know what to say.”
SERGIO (TO RAI): “IT WILL NOT BE EASY” – Finally he also intervened Rai CEO Roberto Sergio: “It won’t be easy to start the week from next Monday: the end of the season of ‘Viva Rai2!’, with the bursting and contagious joy of Rosario Fiorello and his splendid traveling companions, leaves us without what was an unmissable and highly entertaining event for millions of viewers, which has become a real own phenomenon of custom, beyond the extraordinary listening results”.
ALL THE NUMBERS OF VIVA RAI2! – Seven months of programming that can be told in a series of important numbers. From the broadcast on 6 November, the official start of the second edition, during the 112 episodes broadcast live from the new location of the Foro Italico (without forgetting the 10 episodes of “Waiting for Rai2!”, broadcast on RaiPlay from 16 to 27 last October, and the Sanremo spin-off “VivaRai2!… VivaSanremo!”) 125 guests stopped by, over 300 jokes were written, more than 2000 stage costumes were prepared, 600 video contributions, around 200 daily press notes, 100 printed silhouettes and , especially 3400 iconic sheep. Born from an idea by Fiorello, the program achieved an average share of 19.6% with over 1 million viewers. On RaiPlay there were approximately 21 million views and almost 7 million hours of viewing. The most watched episode? The one on March 13th, with 1,152,000 spectators and a 21.7% share.
Interesting i data from the teen audience, in the range between 15 and 24 years, which achieved an extraordinary share record (26.2% among girls and 29.3% among boys): it was the ‘youngest edition ever’, with an average age under 40 . The performances on social media were also excellent: during the ‘VivaRai2!’ season it collected a total of 1.7 million interactions and comments: the episode with the most engagement was the first, on 6 November 2023, with 96,200 interactions. The videos of the broadcast have totaled 2.5 million views to date.
