Officer, Fabio Fazio and Luciana Littizzetto leave Rai and switch to Discovery
Four-year agreement: they will go to Nine. Farewell after a 40-year career on public television and weeks of rumorsPer restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
After almost 40 years Fabio Fazio leaves Rai. The 58-year-old conductor, one of the most popular faces on public TV, moves to Warner Bros. Discovery with a four-year armored agreement that will see him debut on the Nine as early as next autumn. Luciana Littizzetto also moves with him.
A farewell announced by weeks of rumors that comes after the conductor's vain wait for the contract, expiring at the end of June, to become the subject of negotiation, after the attacks received in recent years by the center-right and on the eve of the inauguration of the new TV top wanted by the Meloni government.
«We are thrilled to welcome a champion like Fabio Fazio and proud that one of the most important and influential faces of Italian television has chosen Warner Bros. Discovery and Canale Nove to continue his extraordinary career. Our commitment has always been to attract the best talents and the arrival of Fabio and Luciana in our group is the best possible confirmation », comments Alessandro Araimo, GM Italy & Iberia of Warner Bros. Discovery.
The projects that will involve Fazio, explains the company, will be made official in the coming weeks: in all likelihood the conductor will bring Che tempo che fa with him , perhaps with a new title . But the four-year agreement - which according to reports would have been closed on more favorable terms than the Rai engagement - will also allow him to develop new ideas.
LONG CAREER – In 58 years of life, Fazio has spent 39 on TV. It was 1983 when a young and curly-haired boy from Savona answered Pronto Raffaella, at Carrà, who asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up: «I want to be Mike Bongiorno». Ten years later , Fazio and his team revolutionize the Sunday rite of the Italians , recounting the invisible matches with the complicity of a gallery of formidable supporting actors, from Teo Teocoli to Paolo Brosio, from Idris to Sister Paola.
He conducted Sanremo four times : two memorable editions in 1999 and 2000 with Nobel Renato Dulbecco and then Luciano Pavarotti in the cast and Michail Gorbachev on stage. The last two were less fortunate, in 2013 and 2014.
In 2003 the Che tempo che fa era began: since then, more than 1,200 episodes have been made, more than 4,000 guests, from Pope Francis to Obama, from Gorbachev to French President Emmanuel Macron, passing through Bill Gates, Margherita Hack, Rita Levi Montalcini, Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Anthony Fauci. Hundreds of personalities from sports, politics, business and entertainment parade in the studio, such as Pele, Lady Gaga, Paolo Sorrentino, Quentin Tarantino, Ken Follett, Ennio Morricone, Madonna, Meryl Streep, Umberto Eco, Francis Ford Coppola, Claudio Abbado, Tom Hanks, John Travolta, Whoopi Goldberg, Sophia Loren, Roberto Benigni, Woody Allen.
(Unioneonline/D)