Even in summer, during the long hot holidays that the public service allows itself, we eat the same soup (metaphor, the poet Neruda would say to Massimo Troisi). Crime news, lots of crime news, now the most widespread genre on TV (those who no longer know Italian call it true crime); I mess around, I mess around a lot; self-referentiality, lots of self-referentiality (talking about oneself, or the autofiction of those who have nothing to say).
I happened to follow an episode of «Estate in diretta» on Raiuno, hosted by Gianluca Semprini and Nunzia De Girolamo. Semprini was a good Sky journalist: when he arrived in Saxa Rubra he got lost (or they made him lose his way), too bad. I’ll keep Nunzia for later, it has to end on a high note. Reports on the Tramontano crime, on a missing woman, on a missing child, on other crimes, things like that. The scheme is always the same: on-site service like Paola Cortellesi in the guise of Silvana, interviews with neighbors who always say they are upset or who improvise as detectives, intervention from a psychologist’s office that as soon as you hear her you bet on the moment in which he will say «grieving process», the present faces of the hosts.
On the sofas in the studio I recognized Jo Squillo (also from arsonist to firefighter), Marta Flavi (do you remember her?), Manuela Moreno, the siren of Sangiulianism, Arianna David (does she have anything to do with Miss Italia?), Beppe Convertini in book promotion and Gigi Marzullo (my fault if I don’t understand how someone who always asks stupid questions can be successful). Connected from London, Natalia Augias tells us about Princess Kate’s health. With such guests it is easy to understand the tone of the conversation, during which, however, she Augias praises the discretion of the English media regarding her illness.
But Nunzia, our Nunzia, what is she doing? A nice mystery: her programs always go badly but she’s always on TV. When she receives a guest from her show, her face lights up, she expresses confidence, as if she had always belonged to that world and not to politics. You are specializing in flops, which in Italy is still a specialization that makes your CV.
