Barbara D’Urso out of Mediaset? It’s time to step back

Who knows if, when she decided to dress up as an eighteenth-century lady in the promo de The Pupa and the Nerdy Show, Barbara D’Urso already knew that the relentless guillotine of the network directors, the one that affects all the authorial teams that do not work in terms of results and criticism, was close. After the close of Live – It’s not D’Urso and of Sunday Live, the move to Italia 1 and the shortening of Afternoon Five complete with a more sober and austere line, Dagospia he explains that Mediaset is thinking of not renewing D’Urso’s expiring contract who, for the first time in 15 years, would give up the so-called permanent position which for a conductor represents the point of arrival of a long and tiring apprenticeship. We do not know if the news is true or not but, when in doubt, let’s try to understand what it would mean for a presenter who has always explained in interviews that she is tireless and barely takes half a day off for a change of this type.

It is logical to start from a premise: in recent years Barbara D’Urso’s programs – all focused on that television monster that is infotainment, that is the mix between information and entertainment – they went too fardemonstrating more than other competitors how high the thirst for share was and, often, merciless. When it comes to crime news and not Mark Caltagirone, however, respect, education and sensitivity are required. All qualities that are often lacking in authors who are asked to bring satisfactory results, under penalty of closure of the program. The numerous slips – starting with the Eternal Rest pronounced live together with Matteo Salvini to honor the victims of Bergamo – have brought a certain discontent in the company which, however, has shut up its nose because if there is one thing in which Barbara D’Urso is very good at attracting the public with a minimum investment cost, a quality that, especially in today’s television, without the extra budget of the past, is truly a rarity.

As soon as the wheel began to turn in the wrong direction and the Dursian programs failed to keep expectations high, the trap started which, if we wanted to paraphrase, could be summed up more or less like this: ” the numbers, but now we’re going to kill you because that’s right “. Going from everything to nothing in the space of a television season is extremely mortifying for a professional who, like it or not, has always shown that she knows how to do her job and that we hoped for, a The Pupa and the Nerdy Showto see you take a step back to understand the right way to reinvent yourself, as did Mara Venier after the expulsion from Sunday In. D’Urso’s response to the move, on the other hand, disappointed us: branded suits with his initials as if to underline his intellectual power and the use of the same trash form as Live – It’s not D’Urso he was fishing with his hands down. If the rumor of the non-renewal were true, it would be necessary, at this point, to look for the truest friends, evaluate the right projects and, for once, take the right time to reflect and understand where to start again. This is not a defeat – the ups and downs, after all, have also affected the greatest, from Mike Bongiorno to Pippo Baudo – but it would really be the case to give up instinct and understand that reflecting on yourself is not a dishonor. , but the right engine to return to the top.

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