In the year when the scaffolding of social interactions wobbles, television not only resists, but proves to be alive and well, far from any form of premature senility. In spite of the critics who every year speak of a rusty medium that has nothing more to say, given up for passing due to streaming platforms and ever less linear consumption by viewers, meeting in front of the television in the hot months of the lockdown represented a form of salvation for the Italians, a last attempt at union to make up for the impossibility of leaving the house and escaping from the news. The audience has grown, the hunger for content has become more voracious and information has dominated, often crushing the entertainment, considered by many to be inappropriate and even offensive at a time when everyone had to understand what was happening outside, in the world external.
Drunk with information, saturated with commentators and virologists everywhere, lightness soon returned to be the master looking for a way to reinvent itself and guarantee continuity between yesterday and today, between what it was and what it was in an effort of recycling and sustainability that has something moving. Beyond isolated cases such as the services of Tg1 di Giovanna Botteri and the immense work of Fabio Fazio a What’s the weather like, in the meantime, back on Raitre and welcomed by ratings well above the network targets, for some time the 2020 television has flattened out leaving very little alternatives to those who want to disconnect their brains and focus on something else. Fragments of one of the Sanremo Festival most successful in the last decade, last drunkenness before forced abstinence, faded quickly, as if they belonged to another era. Yet, of things that happened on television in 2020, there were galore, some more memorable than others.
In the gallery you find above we try to refresh your memory and to remember good things and bad things, those that have given us joy and those that have upset us and made us lose confidence. Together with the unhappy episodes consumed inside the house of the Big Brother Vip and not quite successful experiments like Celebrity Hunted of Prime Video, it is good, however, to also remember the confirmation of Alberto Angela on Raiuno, the unexpected success of The Voice Senior, the emotional farewell of Alessandro Cattelan a X Factor, the heart-to-heart interview of Mara Venier and Maria De Filippi a Sunday In, the colorful performances of Costantino Della Gherardesca a Dancing with the Stars and Emanuela Fanelli’s already cult curtain on Italian cinema in A piece of Lundini: tiles of a very rich mosaic which, as Luca Barra pointed out in the last issue of Link, has allowed television to respond to the tastes of the public and, at the same time, not to forget its role as a “global village”, denying, if there was still a need, of being dying and struggling to survive.
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