Archived The Masked Singerliterally left devastated by sheep Italian version, Milly Carlucci is back on air on Rai Uno with another extra format dancing with the Starsthat is to say The Talent Catcher, a program she created together with Giancarlo De Andreis. A triumph already seen elsewhere, among Italia’s got talent, Bullfight And You are here Valeswith the entire budget made available by the public service evidently almost entirely squandered on jurors and so-called talent catchers.
The format of The Talent Catcher
The format is apparently very simple, if only you didn’t understand anything. Teo Mammuccari, Francesco Paolantoni, Mara Maionchi, Sabrina Salerno and Wanda Nara are new talent scouts who must try to “catch” the best talent most similar to their characteristics among the performances presented live by various artists from all over the world. Then it will be the jurors, namely Simona Ventura, Francesco Facchinetti and Flavio Insinna, who will have to judge the “talents” found. In the second round, each talent catcher is offered a blind exchange with another talent and it will be up to him to decide whether to confirm his choice or continue the race with a new adventure companion. Whoever wins the episode based on the votes of the jury and the audience at home will be able to take their talent to the final and will have to perform with their talent catcher in the last episode, scheduled for Saturday 8 June. To get there, we might add.
The Milly Carlucci Universe
Why The Talent Catcher it is a program of rare ugliness and nonsense that has borrowed heavily from other formats and then made its own with disarming paucity. The Rai Auditorium of the Foro Italico, on which Milly Carlucci probably pays the IMU, has rarely appeared so poor and scenographically speaking sad, with the “celebrity” cast taken by force from other programs made by Carlucci. If Ventura, Nara, Mammuccari and Salerno all participated in dancing with the Stars as competitors, Facchinetti and Insinna took part in The Masked Singer as judges.
The only “virgins” in the presence of the Milly Carlucci Universe are Francesco Paolantoni, who in the last two years has probably invoiced as much as the entire GDP of Malta, being practically everywhere on all the remote control channels every other day, and Mara Maionchi, successful in the feat of cloning oneself in order to be able to take part in a few days Beasts, What’s the weather like, Eurovision And The Talent Catcher, at the tender age of 83. There are viewers who see more of her than their grandmother.
Between porno dubbing and Ghostbusters
Talents, those admired during the first episode, already seen elsewhere (Antonio Vaglica in 2022 Italia’s got talent, Francesco Miccoli in 2021 and Silvia Saracino in 2016) and/or also arriving from abroad, with an amateur dubbing totally out of sync that would make the 90s porn on pirated VHS bought from your local newsagent pale in comparison. Characters imported from the EU to then see them perform disguised as Elsa of Frozen complete with a bear, from Puclino Pio on acid who attempts suicide by throwing himself off a polystyrene cliff and from a giant caterpillar who goes crazy and transforms into a butterfly screaming in pain as if we were in a David Cronenberg film. Five minutes of authentic madness with splashes of Ken Russell that will remain in the display cases of for decades to come Blob.
And if 7 authors were necessary to give birth to the brilliant idea of using the main song of the Ghostbusters as a background musical theme (after all, from Ghostbusters to Talentbusters is a moment), as well as having a cartoon of a minor competitor made to be broadcast after midnight, it was the plastic crown bought by the Chinese man from Tor di Quinto from hand it over to the winner of the episode to certify the absolute insignificance of a program in which Carlucci feigns enthusiasm by launching social media cards to be televoted as if there were no tomorrow, and then becomes very serious in calling the rankings as if he were hosting the Eurovision in Malmo. It’s a shame that there is no vision here and there are only 50 euros invested in a product that frighteningly oscillates between surrealist genius and cathodic senselessness, collective hallucination, the lysergic trip and the post-apocalyptic nightmare, with the inevitable Auditel ruling soon arrived.
The ratings
The first epochal episode of The Talent Catcher, which may have rewritten the history of bad television, was in fact seen by just 2,667,000 viewers, with a 17.2% share. Milly Carlucci beaten by Turkish soaps Bitter Earth And Endless Love, on Canale 5 it achieved well over 18% share with 3 million viewers. Thinking of arriving in June, in the face of such a disaster, is the stuff of dreams.
The program of the week was Eurovision, on Rai2 and Rai1
