It’s called AcchiappaTalenti and it’s the new, reckless format by Milly Carlucci, the woman who managed to bring the surreal Korean format of the Masked Singer to Italian TV for four years in a row (for now on the bench, «but she’s only on break» she assures). This time no masks, but a competition between talent scouts to see who can find the most “right” artist to form a couple with.
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The cast
Airing from tomorrow every Friday in prime time on Rai1, final on 8 June, five competitors (Mara Maionchi, Teo Mammucari, Wanda Nara, Francesco Paolantoni and Sabrina Salerno) and three jurors (Francesco Facchinetti, Flavio Insinna and Simona Ventura, « recovered very well” from the facial paralysis that had struck her). At the helm, Carlucci, 69 years old, a certainty. Also for Rai: «Give in to the sirens of other networks? But where do I find the freedom of expression that I have here? After the crazy experience of the Masked Singer I can try something else, equally new. In Rai I have undeniable freedom. With all the risks that entails.” There are those who are eager to leave, and those like Amadeus who have already signed elsewhere (the Nine), she shrugs: «When a talent has decided to leave, it is difficult to convince him to stay. These are not children to be taken back to nursery school. It is human to want to experiment, to change.”
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The Sanremo Festival
She pulled out of a possible Sanremo run almost immediately. She says «I don’t have time», and in fact «I work on Dancing for a year and from September I prepare Acchiappatalenti. And then Sanremo isn’t just about hosting, it’s about being an artistic director. A lot of work.” The formal proposal, however, «has not arrived. And I’m fine like that.” Among the colleagues on that stage, Stefano De Martino would be seen well, «very gifted and extraordinary, he will get there in due time», but it is clear that he is rooting for his lifelong colleague, «Carlo Conti, alone or paired with Cattelan : reliable, very good, what else does he have to prove? As for his talent, «I would say persistence and resistance»: it was Arbore who discovered it, who «saw the stars in my eyes. And then I had to prove to him that he had gotten it right.” The same Arbore who today sees Fiorello as his heir: «We are constantly looking for heirs and clones, but I don’t agree. Fiorello is a giant but he is Fiorello, Renzo is Renzo. If Fiore does a night program, like Renzo’s, he will be very different from him. In any case, crazy.” And on the fact of being one of the few Rai columns to have never passed through the glass of my colleague at VivaRai2!, «No particular reason. Only, it didn’t happen. For people like me who finish at one in the morning, they have impossible hours.”
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