Twenty-two years and not hear them. Although this will be his last season as Don Matteo, Terence Hill can be satisfied: the series, back on Rai1 with a mix of curiosity and apprehension precisely to understand how Don Matteo will give way to Don Massimo played by Raoul Bova, debuts with 6,541,000 spectators and a 29.9% sharevery high numbers that can only make Lux Vide proud that, after the success of DOC – In your hands and the acquisition by Fremantle, demonstrates that you have the right formula in your hands to save the evenings and offer the public stories that are able to communicate something more than a simple and hasty morality.
Raoul Bova and Terence Hill
All in Don Matteo it’s the same as it always has been – the ride through the streets of Spoleto, the black tunic, the inclined flat cap, the cases to be solved, the intuition of an infallible detective – and this is precisely the secret of the longevity of fiction: do not distort the original format but, indeed, to keep it alive by sinking its roots in tradition even with a wink to the future. The narrative expedient I experiment during the first episode, with the Cecchini played by Nino Frassica who lives a real postcard trip which counts on the participation of Flavio Insinna, who has returned to the role of Colonel Anceschi, once again demonstrates the inventiveness of the screenwriters in following different paths, but always capable of not confusing the public.
Flavio Insinna, Maria Chiara Giannetta and Nino Frassica
The risk, however, will come to the fifth episode, when Don Matteo will leave the series that bears his name and will give space to a new lever. We do not know how this handover will take place and, to be honest, it scares us a little: however, that will be the litmus test to understand if the success of the fiction depends entirely on Hill or on the microcosm inhabited by characters who in the years have now become at home – from the perpetual Nathalie Guetta to the wonderful couple formed by Maria Chiara Giannetta and Maurizio Lastrico -. It remains that Hill leaves Don Matteo not exactly light-hearted, since he has repeatedly explained that, after 259 episodes, he would have preferred to loosen the frenzied pace of the shooting by advising the production to put fewer episodes in the pipeline rather than completely disappear. We’ll see what happens.
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