Stefano De Martino and Gerry Scotti: the TV challenge of autumn

Stefano De Martino and Gerry Scotti, innovation and tradition, the bright smile and the dialectic without smudging, the packages to open and the wheel to be turned. They will be the protagonists of the most exciting TV challenge of autumn, the first that will compare Rai1 and Canale 5 on a clash that until a few months ago seemed not to admit rivals: The Access Prime-timethat is, the time interval that from the news of the 20 delivers the public to the first evening which, now, in Italy never starts before 9.35 pm. On the one hand there is ** Business your business,** The historic program brought to success by Paolo Bonolis who With Stefano De Martino he reached Bulgarian plays Especially thanks to its fresh and cheeky approach. On the other The wheel of lucka format that we all have always identified with Mike Bongiorno and that with Gerry Scotti managed to keep up with the times mainly thanks to a slimmer and faster formula.

The question is very simple: Who of the two will prefer the public from home? Difficult to say, especially considering two factors. The first is that Stefano De Martino and Gerry Scotti have two very different ways of conducting: If the first is concentrated above all on the empathy that is created with the competitor on duty, the second is more careful to fill the dead times and to entertain the public with its always ready joke. The second is the very nature of the games that the two conductors present: Your business it is, in itself, a program capable of involving the public only on an emotional level, Actively participating in the suffering and joy of the competitor who gradually chooses the packages to be discarded by following himself from instinct, numerology, superstition and whoever has more. The wheel of luck It is, however, a program that allows the public to play together with the competitorsgiven that the mechanism is not based only on the case and on luck but also on the skills of the competitors to guess the sentences that appear on the scoreboard (something that in Your business It is not foreseen, considering that the program does not allow the viewer to get involved).

What we know is that Mediaset has finally decided to test a new formula In a space that, until last June, was strictly manned by the creatures of Antonio Ricci, who never gave up that slot until Pier Silvio Berlusconi understood that to try to be competitive a gesture of courage was needed. Hence the new challenge between Stefano De Martino and Gerry Scotti and the curiosity to understand which dish the balance of the audience will hang. Regardless of how it will go – it is likely that the numbers of Canale 5 will swell and those of Rai1 will meet a slight decline -, it is beautiful and stimulating when the television remembers to entertain and not to lay on the laurels. This brings the authors and the conductors themselves to be more creative and invent new gimmicks to continue doing their work with seriousness and conscience.