“An Extraordinary Human Journey”: This is how Fiorello sums up the first edition of Viva Rai2! together, the program that represents him perhaps more than any other since it is the distillation of all previous experiences, with an extra dose of rhythm and inspiration and with the new blood brought by a big fan group of young people in the team.
Same time, same place, same network. If Viva Rai2! It will return to give the Italians a joyful wake-up call between satire and music (there will be a dispute with some tenants in via Asiago to solve the dawn noises), with the characteristics that have created a Cult program: from Monday to Friday, from 7.15 a.m. to 8 p.m., live from Via Asiago, on Rai2. Fiorello assures him, who explains in the interview with ANSA: “We will not move to Rai1 because here on Rai2 it is good, a less formal network and more suitable for playing around.”.
Fiorello: “Long live Rai2!” It’s not up to Rai1
The schedule adapted to his biorhythm (he wakes up before 5 am) and the environment are part of the success. “If VivaRai2! leaves the streets and the glass and moves into a classic television studio, it becomes something else,” he notes.
The uniqueness lies in the guests arriving by tow truck or tractor, but also in a group dance on the pedestrian crossing or an impromptu lap dance on the pole of a no parking sign. Luca Tommassini enriched the show with spectacular choreographies never seen before on the street, let alone in the morning.
“I’m always looking for something new that doesn’t bore me. Variety,” explains Fiorello, “can be rejected in many ways.” Many think that changing the content is enough to make it different, but that’s not the case. The first change for me was to move it from Saturday to Monday evening. Then I tried it at an unbelievable time, at 7am.
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“When the problems are solved we will return, also on the nights of Sanremo” (ANSA)
Among the many outstanding fans of the show Mine, While Vincenzo Mollica talks about the most “Fellino” program among Rosario’s. Spotlight on Viva Rai2! Many are presented, famous and not famous, but someone, as expected, did not arrive.
It is the case Elly Schlein, but also by Marco Mengoni. To poke fun at the absence of the Sanremo winner, Fiorello asked Amadeus to dress like him, with a metal shirt (in this case with the white health shirt underneath) and his biceps exposed. An intoxicating effect, especially when Fiorello played back the audio of what Amadeus had sung at the end of Two Lives. The politicians interviewed in the Belve parody (Serracchiani, Boccia, Renzi, Calenda) and the Mayor of Rome Gualtieri were the only ones who spoke in person. The whole opposition? “You can see that the accident wakes up earlier in the morning,” jokes Fiorello, who was on the phone with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, an accomplice in a gag. “I saw people on the floor painting sheets on a garage ramp, making costumes in the middle of the street, setting up sets in the rain,” says the showman, trying to help people understand the sacrifice of the 150 people who work for TV production, “the hardest in history”.
Despite the early paragraphs, the mood is the euphoric mood of the last day of school with a few tears. In addition to Fiorello, there are the authors of all time, Francesco Bozzi, Pigi Montebelli and Federico Taddia, two more recent entries, Enrico Nocera and Edoardo Scognamiglio, as well as Fabrizio Biggio and Mauro Casciari, valid along with the retired Ruggiero comic shoulders that differ as never jeopardize beforehand.
Alongside the faithful Maestro Enrico Cremonesi, the musical department was enriched by Danti and Maestro Buffat, and by the freshness of Beatrice De Dominicis and Serena Ionta, while director Piergiorgio Camilli’s eye was intent on keeping everything together.
After filming, hopefully “at the beginning of winter”, the showman told Viva Rai2! could move to Sanremo to follow the festival. What is certain is that Fiorello will be a guest on the final evening, and with him Tofu, his trap alter ego. Long live Rai2! It had an average viewership of 813,000 viewers, with a 16.6% share, rising to just under 20% on a crescendo to peak at 1 million. “With his whole team and with Rai, “Fiorello has accepted and won a challenge that has profoundly changed morning television in Italy and even the habits of Italians,” said Rai CEO Roberto Sergio, confirming “See you next season.” The success of Viva Rai2! This is confirmed by the figures of RaiPlay and social networks, with 51 million impressions, 1.5 million interactions between comments, reactions and shares, 10 million hours viewed by users.