Canale 5 changes its look in the afternoon. Starting today Monday 17 June 2024, in fact, Afternoon Five will leave room for Afternoon Five Newswhich will be broadcast every day from Monday to Friday at 5pm. Arrived at the greetings last Friday, Myrta Merlin he will thus leave the helm of the afternoon Mediaset a Simona Branchetti, who will return to host the spin-off of the historic talk show after two years. For Myrta, however, it’s time to recharge the batteries: after a year that was anything but exciting in terms of ratings, confirmation has arrived (at least in words) from Pier Silvio Berlusconi, who wants the journalist back at the helm of Afternoon Five next season. Let’s find out all the details.
Afternoon Five News with Simona Branchetti
Today Monday 17 June 2024 Myrta Merlino and Afternoon Five will hand over the “keys” to the Canale 5 schedule to Simona Branchetti e Afternoon Five News. “It leaves on Monday Afternoon Five News and to my great joy, to my true joy, a woman is at the helm…Simona Branchetti, to whom I wish her the best of luck and say come on…” explained the Neapolitan journalist at the end of the last seasonal episode of Afternoon Five. The spin-off of the historic Videonews talk show will be broadcast everyday Monday to Friday, from 17 at 6.45pm, and will continue to talk about current affairs, news and customs with many guests in the studio and correspondents. For Simona Branchetti it’s a return to the helm of Afternoon Five Newswhich she has already hosted from 2021 to 2022. In the last season, however, the journalist hosted Morning Newsalways on Canale 5.
The future of Myrta Merlino
Arrived to say goodbye last Friday at the end of a complicated season at the helm of Afternoon FiveFor Myrta Merlin it’s time to take a break, but also to take stock. The heavy legacy of Barbara D’Urso (the symbolic face of the program for over 15 years) proved to be a boulder also and above all in terms of ratings, but her new “cleaner” and more professional style with a journalistic slant has brought Pier Silvio Berlusconi to opt for the he confirms of the presenter for the next season. This choice swept away the farewell voices which had accumulated during the year, with Myrta Merlino often ending up under accusation for the numbers of her program and for the numerous absences (in which his replacement Giuseppe Brindisi had often managed to do better than his colleague, as happened in the Sanremo week).
