ROME - "I start from where I left off, from those hugs of the last episode that I would do again": Mara Venier starts again with emotion and desire to be close to the public in these uncertain times with her Domenica In, which will be aired again on 13 September on Rai1 at 2 pm An edition (the third consecutive, a total of 11 those that it has conducted over the years) once again in its image and likeness, without a script, with great space for improvisation, but above all intimate, familiar, inclusive: for this the debut will see the return of Loretta Goggi and Romina Power, protagonists of the last episode last June, in which in defiance of the anti covid rules the presenter had embraced the ex wife of Al Bano, marked by the loss of her sister.
If there will not be - to avoid exploitation - the video message of Prime Minister Conte to accompany the return to the school desks announced by the presenter ("It was an idea in progress but the President Conte preferred to decline the video message recording to prevent the school become an occasion for controversy .. And then the good return to school will be done by Aunt Mara ", writes in a note by Mara Venier) next Sunday Claudio Amendola, Anna Tatangelo, Mika will arrive in connection from Milan who will launch the I love Beirut project.
There will be Professor Francesco Le Foche, immunologist, who will take stock of the health emergency.
In fact, the covid will inevitably affect this edition of the program as well: a studio without an audience, with a small-scale orchestra and a maximum of 8 guests per episode.
The prize game will also return, with two families competing not for money but for something brought by a guest.
Among the most awaited news, then, the confirmation that soon Maria De Filippi will finally be a guest.
"I would have liked to make some changes, to subtract, to recreate the work group of the Domenica In of the 90s, then instead with the director Coletta we decided to keep everything as it is. The last edition was the most difficult I have never done, but it was also the one that gave me the most emotion, fear, happiness ", says Mara Venier presenting the program at Viale Mazzini," this year I have a strange feeling, I seem to have never stopped. my family relationship with the public. The only thing that gratifies me is the people who thank me for keeping company. Listening doesn't interest me, I just want to do my job honestly and seriously ".
"Of course on Sunday afternoons people want entertainment but we still have to understand how covid evolves, I can't pretend nothing happened", he says, "in the last edition I thought several times that I was not up to it: I was in an empty studio, I thought of not being able to manage the situation. One Sunday I even gave up and did not go on the air, when the deputy minister Sileri had tested positive for covid and I was afraid for me and for my husband ".
He would like to point out that "no one forced me to return. But then the director Coletta told me that I represented Rai and that the public needed me. Then I overcome my fears for the public and I came back. I just wanted to reassure them. people, I didn't care, I wore makeup and I combed my hair by myself, the authors worked from home. I worked by hiding the terror, then with the decrease of positive and sick people, hope was reborn ".
Now the restart foresees that you navigate on sight, with the certainty, however, of putting your heart into it, of having good entertainment and of finding friends, historical and otherwise, with whom to do his now famous one-to-one interviews. Like the one he will soon do with Maria De Filippi: "When I was not in Rai, Maria is the only one who helped me by inviting me to Tu si que vales. I had to make an episode and I stayed 3 years. The young audience I have on Sunday In comes from there. I'm grateful to her and to Mediaset, "she says. "Mara is a strong and authoritative woman, she brings joy and positivity. But her impact on TV is also due to her fragility, her ability to cry, her showing herself for what she is. She is on the third Domenica In and so far she has always won with an average audience of close to 20ö of share. The public rewards her authenticity of language, intelligence and curiosity. Nothing is innovated here; confessionality and intimacy are expected from Mara, I only ask her to continue to inform in a democratic and pop key to answer questions from the public ", says the director of Rai1 Stefano Coletta, recalling that" It continued to go on air until mid-June, with the covid, without orchestra, with broken foot, informed and consoled , has filled solitudes, has no filters or prejudices: she embodies the continuous response to what the audience asks ". "in this 45th edition of Domenica In - continues Coletta - we must not think about the audience but only to deliver an expression that is congruent with the time we live". And he announces that he is thinking of "a prime time program for Mara that exploits her unpredictability".