Arbore, innovate on TV? Ideas and courage are needed

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 27 - A program defined as "the most innovative and revolutionary made by Rai": it's L'altra Sunday, born on Rai2 in March 45 years ago: an anniversary that its creator, Renzo Arbore celebrates with the Sunday schedule with, the space curated by Enrico Salvatori and Giovanni Paolo Fontana broadcast on Sunday 28 March on Rai Storia.

Ten hours from 14 to 24 on Rai Storia, in which the showman presents and comments for viewers a long anthology "of my primogeniture, curious and revolutionary" he tells ANSA.

    The other Sunday was born "thanks to the competition that was emerging between the Rai networks - he says -. It was Massimo Fichera, 'inventor' and first director of Rai2, who asked me for something new and I proposed this, a sort of great rotogravure on show with connections all over the world ".

Domenica in, which was born in October, "was also a response to the success we were achieving".

At L'altra Domenica "there were the first quizzes on the phone, quite a risk, because leaving the line open no one knew what could have happened; among others, the first group 'en travesti', Le sorelle Bandiera; the first interviewing girls, Milly Carlucci and Silvia Annichiarico "he recalls.

He made his debut with "his American musical correspondences, Isabella Rossellini. And above all" there was the 'pop' debut by Roberto Benigni, which in 35 episodes became hugely popular with bogus movie reviews. "How to become the greatest innovator of Italian TV? "You need ideas, curiosity, a little courage and a lot of recklessness.

Then the radio gym was very useful to me, with Boncompagni.

On TV I transferred that spiritaccio, my continuous search for new things ".

    Even today Italy is experiencing a dark period with the pandemic "and this cannot be joked" says the conductor who got the vaccine and "I stay at home quietly".

On TV "thank God there are fiction, while entertainment is suffering".

Is there no room for an innovative show?

No, otherwise I'd do it "he jokes. However I'm" mixing new ideas, we hope to do something for the autumn ". (ANSA).