The Saturday Night Showdown: Andy Kusnetzoff Takes the Field with PH

Andy Kusnetzoff

Little by little the Saturday screen heats up and in the second half of the season the channels begin to play their strong cards for prime time. To the superclassic of recent years among the leading channels -Telefe with PH Podemos Hablar, El Trece with the nights of Mirtha Legrand and Juana Viale-, is now added to the arrival of Alejandro Fantino in El Nueve and a revitalized American grid since the arrival of Marcelo Tinelli, first as artistic director and then at the head of Bailando 2023.

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On this chess board, Andy Kusnetzoff and the ball channel moved first and take the field with the seventh season of PH. For now it is not the time to play simultaneous games, since Fantino’s premiere, also scheduled for today, has been postponed for at least a week. And that of La Chiqui, which after arduous negotiations will continue in the Constitution sign, does not have an official date either. Hence, the driver of Perros de la calle takes to the field in one-man mode. And it will be a matter of time to know if he will live up to the saying that he who hits first, hits twice.

For Andy, it is a return different from the others, since like never before the possibility of not having air in 2023 was really close. “It’s good to take a break and at one point I thought we were going to return in March,” he admits. the driver, hand in hand with Teleshow. And he seems satisfied with this short season scheme, removing any controversy with the channel. “We both agreed on a pause and I don’t think we have to squeeze everything just for the sake of it. In this context, I wanted to travel more this year and we agreed on this date in such a strange year, in the middle of the elections,” he analyzes. And he highlights with some relief a streak that never ends: “I don’t think I’ve ever done a program for seven seasons, not even CQC.”

Abel Pintos, invited to the first PH program

Suggested from its title, PH’s original proposal was to bring the parties closer together in times of rift, an objective that was moving from axis but not losing sight of it. And it reappears in the conversation at this electoral time. Andy says that he is passionate about talking about politics and that he would love to interview the candidates on his show, but right now is not the time. “From when we started until the elections there are only three weeks and I don’t see that the conditions are there to be able to invite everyone and do it well,” he says from his shared place as host and producer. And he elaborates, looking beyond the present: “I haven’t done politics lately, but I enjoyed when they came. I especially remember a cross between Aníbal Fernández and Silvia Suller, I like that mix, but you have to feel it. It is difficult to explain. I am passionate about current affairs and politics, and I do not rule it out for a hypothetical second round,” he concludes.

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Kusnetzoff’s enthusiasm is also evident when rehearsing the first tests for the seventh season and is enhanced in the interactive exercise of renewing the sections, an aspect that especially seduces him. “I talk about it with the team, I test it in the office, I test it with the producers, I see it as a therapeutic team,” he confesses, but without revealing the news. Instead, he points out that the set design is maintained as a continuity of the 2022 season, and anticipates the first guests. Three who repeat – Abel Pintos, Paula Chaves and Damián Betular – and two who are making their debut, the former Big Brother Marcos Ginocchio and Julieta Poggio. A nod to the new generations and a bet to win on the networks invoking the Marculi fandom.

The announcement of the production company StoryLab, still without a confirmed date

Accustomed to the ratings battle against Mirtha Legrand, or eventually with her daughter Juana, now the competition is shaping up to be in Saturday night fever mode. A historically cold start schedule that has been warming up in recent times, and that has an extra seasoning with the series of interviews that Fantino prepares on El Nueve and the relaunch of América, which puts the renewed version of Controversy on the grid in the bar..

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“Of course you want to win, because that gives you peace of mind on the channel, it gives you more freedom to do things. But you always have to think about yourself and I can’t change thinking about what Fantino does,” he says, convinced. “Until now I always followed my manual, we did ours and it didn’t go badly,” he reviews, and closes with the focus on self-confidence beyond what the rating says. “I think what we have is good and there are things that one can modify or review, but within certain tools. “A program does poorly when it loses its essence and its identity.”

In the coming weeks, the Super Saturday scenario will be configured and with the arrival of PH, two of the four lockers will be covered. In America, in its new day and time after the beginning of Bailando, Controversy at the bar offers its classic format created by Gerardo Sofovich, but in its renewed version with the direction of Marcela Tinayre and new panelists. Meanwhile, El Trece and El Nueve redefine their strategies for the last quarter of the year.

Alejandro Fantino changes channel after 20 years (Video capture)

After arduous negotiations and after reports that linked her to a possible change of channel, Mirtha Legrand confirmed that she will continue in her home of the last nine years. In a television interview she had anticipated her return for Saturday the 23rd and the first guests had even been leaked: the presidential candidate Javier Milei and the comedian Fátima Florez, one of the most explosive couples of the moment.

However, the diva’s program, and also that of her granddaughter who will go on Sundays at noon, was postponed for at least a week and the ribbon cutting would be scheduled for November 30 or October 6. To reinforce communication, both the production company StoryLab and the official networks of El Trece published the respective announcements on Friday afternoon with the hashtags #VuelveMirtha and #VuelveJuana, although without specifying the date. When this happens, an unprecedented event will occur since the three generations will compete for the first time on television: Marcela will face her mother on Saturdays and her daughter on Sundays.

Controversy at the 2023 bar, captained by Marcela Tinayre

To complete Saturday’s billboard, Alejandro Fantino is preparing his return to open television. While he seems increasingly comfortable on his Neura content platform, the man from San Francisco feels an ambiguous return, in a comfort zone such as the interview, a field in which he knew how to develop his own and characteristic style, but in new house. It is about his landing at El Nueve after 20 years of being one of the most important faces in America, where he left his mark in cycles as diverse as Animales Loose, The Soccer Show and the last stage of Intratables.

Unlike what happens on other air channels, Fantino will focus on face-to-face interviews instead of panels or multiple guests. Its debut had a stipulated date for today, but it ran for at least a week. Both from the channel and from the driver’s entourage there is secrecy regarding this new project, which fuels expectations for its premiere that will end up configuring the definitive super Saturday scenario. Or super action Saturday. A title that nostalgic people will associate with cinema in matinée mode that was reflected on the small screen. That was incorporated into popular language as is usually the case with the classics of all time. And it is reconfigured almost half a century later, to show that television is in good health.

2023-09-16 04:46:02
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