Tv: Don Matteo flies 30%, does not disappoint after 20 years

- That Terence Hill is much loved is an incontrovertible fact, both from the old and the new generations, and it is difficult for Don Matteo not to love him: perhaps not everyone has the tough face to confess that they watch him on TV on Rai1 after 20 years and continue to do so, even in the 12th season. But the data leave no way out, cassock and bicycle are a certainty announced for Rai1: the first episode of the twelfth series with Terence Hill and Nino Frassica in the role of Marshal Cecchini, aired yesterday evening, entitled 'You will have no other God except me '(the guiding thread of the new season are the 10 commandments) has recorded boom results. In fact, 7,005,000 spectators followed 30.6% of the share. The first episode also saw the participation of Fabio Rovazzi who played a ruthless documentary filmmaker who shoots Don Matteo.
The winning debut of the Lux Vide series recalls the data of the eleventh season debut. The first episode, broadcast in January 2018, recorded 7,632,000 viewers equal to 31.6% of share. Canale 5 yesterday broadcast the film 'The legend of Tarzan', which stopped at 1,797,000 spectators (share 7.9%). Guest star Rovazzi, with a few jokes that have thrown social networks (# Donmatteo12 was awarded the first position in the ranking of trending topics Italy). There are those who posted amused: " Rovazzi creates the panic in Spoleto " and who: "From going to command, to going to confession is a moment". Many ask for his return in the next episodes.
Rovazzi himself commented: "Initially I was very scared of this acting request, but once Don Matteo aired I received so many compliments that I thank and will always thank you for involving me in this incredible role. I am also very happy - he added - that the episode in which I made my debut has achieved these results ".
Rai Fiction director Eleonora Andreatta s ottolinea: "It affects the overall figure and, in detail, impresses the success between boys (32% between 8 and 14 years) and girls (35% between 8/14 and 37% between 15/24) ". For Andreatta "the series thus demonstrates its deeply inclusive vocation with homogeneous results from North to South and in all socio-economic and educational levels". "An extraordinary longevity - he notes -, due to a stainless charisma and the uninterrupted work that gradually rearranged plots and characters, up to the turning point of this edition with episodes of one hundred minutes, each themed on one of the ten commandments. It is an unparalleled testimonial this Terence Hill priest on a bicycle who with his humanity manages to speak to the hearts of many and his fellow travelers, first of all Marshal Cecchini, in the grandiose interpretation of Nino Frassica ". (HANDLE).