Piero Chiambretti back in Rai, twenty years after the last time. After his farewell to Mediaset, the host starts again with his new show ‘Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown’, broadcast from 14 May on Rai3. «Television is curious, stuck on schedules stuck ten years ago. The presentation of the programs they make every year is a copy and paste of that of the previous year. Only conductors and work groups move. These escapes from the nest give a little spice to tired television. Many go elsewhere and repeat the same programs, with the same name: but I returned to Rai with something new”, he told La Stampa.
Piero Chiambretti, from May on Rai 3 with “Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown”: «I hope to find someone again»
Chiambretti on Rai, what he said
Among the people who have moved while maintaining the same program is Fabio Fazio: «I vote 10 for the Fazio operation. But I have never seen the program itself. Because I don’t watch TV, ever: it’s already too much to do it. This gives me a lot of freedom because then I’m not tempted to copy from anyone. Of course, I happened to propose a program that I thought I had invented and to be told that there had already been an identical thing on the air for ten years.” About the new programme, Chiambretti says that he started thinking about it «when I was still at Mediaset. Then the arrival on Raitre transformed the project a bit. More than guests, I will have ‘interventions’ by characters to tell stories of current affairs and life, much of the world of women who are the true pillars of our society. Also because I am convinced that the world of women is much more interesting than that of men. The program is very simple, my new provocations lie in simplicity. I have provoked audiences and guests for too long. What we have in mind now is to do a public service and offer a bit of escape.”
When asked if he found a stormy climate in Rai, he replies: «To tell the truth, I found a great silence here. A dead silence: it seems there is no longer the great movement of the past.” A climate that could be influenced by the wait for the European elections: «I’ve been feeling this for almost forty years. It has always been like this: before the elections everything stops, like on the motorway on August 15th. There has always been subdivision, governments place their people in companies and this is the norm. This handbrake pulled on all the activities waiting for the vote is déja vu. Two of the phrases that we hear the most are: ‘Let’s wait for the elections and then we’ll see’ and even more so ‘we need to see who comes’, I’ve been hearing them for thirty years”, concludes Chiambretti who, regarding his not being politically branded, says : «I don’t do television to get involved in politics. I express my political choice in the voting booth. For me, TV is about creating stories to entertain and inform. I have always tried to draw from reality for ideas to bring to a television studio and therefore on air. The important thing is to pursue the objective that Angelo Guglielmi, the great director of Raitre, set before us: on TV, everything is culture, except culture. Our goal is to convey valuable content through lightness, not lectures.”
About mom
Piero Chiambretti then remembered his mother, who passed away from Covid in 2020. «She was very modern and made difficult choices. I had a complicated childhood, without a father, with my mother fighting for the two of us, but with great pride we were able to reverse a complicated start. The best day of my life was the one in which I was able to say to her: “Mom, now stop working: I’ll take care of us”. And we went to resign,” she concluded.
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