It was there on Christmas Eve, it was there on Christmas itself and again on Boxing Day. It is still there in the days between one party and another and on non-stop until New Year’s Eve. The Wheel of Fortune it is on air every day, including the calendar and, on the last Saturday evening of 2025, the host Gerry Scotti does not miss the opportunity to underline the success (and omnipresence) of the program hosted together with Samira Lui, also teasing his opponents in Rai.
Gerry Scotti and Samira Lui risk exaggerating
“We kept you company at Christmas, on Boxing Day, we will keep you company on New Year’s Eve too! We will be always together”: this is how Gerry Scotti opens the Saturday 27 December episode of La Ruota della Fortuna. In this last weekend of the year, the Mediaset host is unleashed and, after having made his entrance dancing and inciting the audience to do the same, he is clearly enjoying the success.
Despite family parties, dinners and revelry, Italians remained faithful to the most loved show on television which, even on difficult holidays, surpassed 25% sharebeating Your business by Stefano De Martino with his almost 5 million viewers. Numbers which, thanks to the large advertising earnings, made Scotti (and his sidekick Samira Lui) Pier Silvio Berlusconi’s protégés. The snake’s strategy is clear: The Wheel of Fortune it will be on the air indefinitely, for longer and longer, more and more often. A goose that lays golden eggs to squeeze out every last drop.
But is this really the right strategy? Prolong The Wheel up halfway through prime time and don’t even give spectators a day to wait, nullify any suspense, because the next match will arrive in less than 24 hours. The format that was created by Mike Buongiorno and which today is revived by Scotti and Lui works, and it works a lot, but the inflation risk it’s getting closer and closer. And who knows how the gamble on December 31st will go, when The Wheel will postpone the usual end-of-year concert.
An unlucky bet a The Wheel of Fortune
Returning to today’s episode, the sparks have definitely disappeared, at least from the competitors. The one on Saturday 27 December was one of the most difficult matches of the season: all the competitors, even the champion Jimmy (who had already not won the night before), were lost in uncertainty. The heats followed one another slowly, with numerous hesitations and sensational errors. There are those who can’t even guess the word “men” and those who get the same vowel already present on the billboard wrong.
Could it have been the Christmas food that, yet to be digested, steals oxygen from the synapses? Who knows, but emotions were certainly lacking today. Luckily, they are there to liven up the atmosphere Fortuna Five. The wild and talented band de The Wheel of Fortunefor which it was Gerry Scotti who found a name in the Boxing Day episode. A tribute to Jackson 5 in which Michael Jackson made his debut but also a not so veiled homage to Canale 5. Among the options, Gerry explained, “there was The Fornaciaros (in honor of his legend Zucchero, who is also the drummer’s uncle), in third place I disgrziati, but we canceled it”.
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