Gianluca Veneziani June 04, 2022
TO Tele Pd, that’s the new name of Linke Rai, regardless of whether they deal with trash issues or want to aim high, the result is the same: the flop. Cultural hegemony will continue to be a form of occupation of programming schedules and network directions, but no longer translated into audience hegemony, confirming the distancing between the left in power and the public/people. An exemplary photo appears from the program two days ago, in which two TV events attracted attention due to cultural decline and audience failure. The first, called Italiani Fantastici, has been running for a few days in the Post-Prandial slot on Rai Due and is designed as a social experimentation program using candid cameras to explore the new character of the Italians. Ambitious goal, but in practice the format performed Alessandro di Sarno, is a sum of ramshackle skits and tasteless. It presents itself as a very old program, already in concept, even with the pretext of telling the Italians of tomorrow, only able to do customs rubbish in public service. The climax in this sense was reached on June 2, when Italiani Fantastici ventured to investigate a sensitive issue over which citizens are fighting: “You would sell your wife for 100,000 euros?”
BETWEEN WASTE AND OSCENO – The episode is based on a Chinese restaurant owner’s attempt to “buy” his customer’s wife for a night of sex. The script wanted the woman (who participated in the joke) to accept the advances of the Chinese (also an accomplice), while the husband, who knew nothing, could not understand how the woman could give in to the other’s flattery and it was in vain tried to tell her “no” to the obscene suggestion.
The tone of the “experiment” was intended to be amusing, but the effect was one of immense depravity, as the wife was treated as a commodity, the Chinese restaurateur posed as a rich swine, and the husband was relegated to a defenseless cuckold. To make matters worse, there were a lot of low-level opinion leaders debating whether it was right or not to give her for 100,000 euros and if it was right for her husband to stop the “sale” of his accept wife Creepy. It was like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, where women can be sold for money, but with a touch of local Tamarro. What about the feminists of Me Too? Keep your mouth shut. The best response came from viewers, who continued to disapprove that the show was stopped with a 3.3% share, simply better than the previous two episodes (with 2.5%), perhaps because something kinky has been added to watch this time was… And even the comments on social media were categorical. “But do I pay the fee for this stuff?” wrote one user. “It’s a lousy program. Shame on you!”, judged another. We ask the CEO Rai instead Carlo Fuortesformerly Veltronian and close to the Minister of Culture Franceschini: Do we really have to continue with this mess? At the very least, Mediaset is trashy but manages to garner an audience, think The Island of the Famous or Big Brother. On the other hand, if it’s necessary to produce garbage TV and not even increase ratings, what’s the point (cultural and commercial)?
At the same time, we ask Fuortes what sense there is in continuing to be directly documented or narrated by his “friend”. Walter Veltroni. Like the one on June 2nd prime time on RaiTre, Dear President, a documentary directed by Michele Truglio who wants to tell the relationship between Italians and the Presidents of the Republic through letters from the former to the latter. Even so, the documentary seemed like stuff to take a bottle on the so-called. If you then added Walter’s soporific narration voice, the narcoleptic effect was assured.
SOPORIFERO – And indeed, only 348,000 viewers remained after the program (awake) for a meager 2.2% share, even less than the comedy program Only Fun directed by Elettra Lamborghini at the Nove (with 2.7%). It’s another failure of a film with Veltroni after the disastrous performance of his documentary When there was Berlinguer (3%, last of the first seven channels). And that’s without counting the flops of his cinematic endeavors, from Children Know to There’s Time… But if those are the results, why the fuck insist? Are you saying that Veltroni was the First Secretary of the Democratic Party? And who cares. Viewers snub it and great. Instead, Walter thinks back to his plan to volunteer in Africa, where he might be more successful. And Rai, instead of contemplating the ballet of armchairs — moving an Orpheus, setting up a Di Bella, relocating a room, but always staying in control — one tries, starting with Fuortes, to create a more dignified and respectful schedule for Italians. Where the quality of the offer is combined with the quantity of the games. But maybe we are dreaming. Better keep up with the programs on women and endure Walter’s untenable boobs…