“Don Matteo 13”: Raoul Bova arrives (but will he really take Terence Hill’s place?)

Great changes in the rectory: after twelve years of honorable service, between masses to be celebrated and murders to be solved, Terence Hill is preparing to make room for a new priest who will have the face of Raoul Bova. It will happen in the thirteenth season of Don Matteo, the popular Raiuno fiction produced by Lux Vide whose shooting will start in Spoleto on 7 June. According to a press release issued by the production company, the fiction will once again see Terence Hill in the lead role, together with the whole swirl of characters ranging from Nardi to Natalina, from Marshal to Capitana, but also a new entry interpreted, in fact , from Bova, raising the doubt that, sooner or later, Hill will pass the baton to him at any moment.

Second TvBlog this passage could already be there this season but, at this point, it is logical to think of a softer and less traumatic way to allow the public to gradually get used to the idea. Exactly how it happened for Un step from heaven, with Hill himself who, starting from the fourth season, left the scene, leaving Daniele Liotti to take the reins of the hut. TO 82 years old, after all, it is normal for a long-time actor like Terence Hill, Mario Girotti in the registry office, to want to look around, even at the cost of letting go of one of the characters who wrote the history of Italian television.

What we know, for now, is just that Raoul Bova, fresh from the success of Good morning mom! on Channel 5, will appear in Don Matteo 13 in the shoes of a priest in his first assignment. Together with him, in the new 10 episodes directed by Francesco Vicario and Luca Brignone, we will also find Anceschi, played by Flavio Insinna, and his daughter Valentina, a girl who appears sunny and full of life but who hides a pain that Don Matteo will try to decipher. It is still too early to understand how the story will develop, but it is clear that, with his own 255 episodes, Don Matteo is a milestone in Italian fiction, and any changes it might bring would certainly not go unnoticed.

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