From a professional point of view, Gerry Scotti is going through a period that is not exactly exciting. In the next few days the irreparable could happen
He is one of the so-called untouchables of Mediaset programming. Gerry Scotti, sixty-eight years old, for at least a quarter of a century he has been an immovable pillar of the broadcaster founded by Silvio Berlusconi. Host, showman, presenter, many critics consider him the most credible heir of a certain Mike Bongiorno.
And it is precisely a program that the former quiz king hosted for fourteen consecutive seasons, from 1989 to 2003at the center of the controversy that has arisen in recent days. Gerry Scotti has in fact decided to propose again an old workhorse of the Biscione networks that went into the attic for fifteen years.
Let’s talk about “The wheel of fortune”the game show which has enjoyed extraordinary success with the public since the early nineties and which over time the former Radio Deejay speaker wanted to bring back into vogue.
Accompanied by great expectations and concrete hopes, the program has so far disappointed. Not so much the public, given that the viewing figures are not that catastrophic, but rather a good part of the critics who don’t seem to like it what has already been defined as a ‘heated soup‘.
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In particular a well-known face of television journalism like Alessandro Cecchi Paonehe wrote in his column published by the weekly New TVdefined the quiz conducted by Scotti as “reassuring, but doesn’t send chills“.
A very hard blow to take for the famous and popular presenter who could soon shelve his attempt to relaunch “The wheel of fortune“. As perhaps not everyone knows, Mediaset has granted a month’s trial to verify the progress of the game show: in the event of satisfactory ratings, new episodes will be ordered, otherwise will precede its immediate closure.
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And precisely in this regard everything suggests that we are going in that direction. The comments on social media from some viewers are not particularly flattering: “Why always re-propose programs that come from the past?”. “Enough, we need new ideas“. “It’s all so boring“.
The next few weeks will therefore be decisive: if ratings collapse, a plausible hypothesis also in light of the authoritative competition of L’Ereditàbroadcast on Rai 1 and hosted by Marco Liorni, “The wheel of fortune” would be closed without too many regrets.
