With the preliminary half-hour format and with a frequency of two days per weekend – Saturdays and Sundays at 12:30 –, this system The Seven Madmen returns to the air on Saturday, June 29, hosted by the journalist Cristina Mucci and by the Metropolis Canal.
After the air leaves the Public TVwhose destiny is at the moment unsure, Cristina Mucci determined to make public that the historic program, which was born on the daybreak of the recovered democracy When Channel 13 was nonetheless in state arms, previous to its privatization, it was not on the air of public tv as a result of nobody had known as it to inform it that it was not persevering with or the other. There was no official from the nationwide State channel to inform him what would occur to him. The seven fools.
Nearly a thousand endorsements acquired each Mucci, whose newest guide Lugones not too long ago got here out in bookstores, like its tv sequence, the place a big a part of the nation’s cultural and creative scene, in addition to personalities from overseas, appeared. Amongst others, Carlos Fuentes, Marios Vargas Llosa, Ray Bradbury, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando Savater, Mario Benedetti, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Isabel Allende, Gilles Lipovetsky, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, José Donoso, Jorge Edwards, Ariel Dorfman, Eduardo Galeano, Jon Lee Anderson, Rosa Montero, Mario Monicelli, Leonardo Padura, Henning Mankell, Michel Houellebecq, Alain Rouquié, Javier Cercas, Almudena Grandes, Nélida Piñón, Sergio Ramírez, Laura Restrepo, Pierre Lemaitre, Guillermo Arriaga and Paul Auster.
Mucci with Liliana Heker.
At this yr’s Buenos Aires E book Truthful, this system and its host acquired compensation.
The seven fools It’s the pioneering cultural cycle of Argentine tv and a singular case of permanence in all Spanish-speaking international locations, devoted to the promotion and dissemination of books, to cultural exercise, and to plural debate. Devised, produced and hosted by Cristina Mucci has been on the air for 36 seasons.
It’ll have a half-hour format, with out columnists. “Once I left public TV for cable TV through the Menem period, I left with this format. It was supreme then. The Saturday midday slot was the final one I had on nationwide TV. The primary program is already recorded,” he commented. Cristina Mucci to journal Ñ.
The friends to the primary broadcast that will probably be seen this Saturday, June 29 at midday on Canal de la Ciudad are two writers, whose current novels happen in the identical historic interval, the Nineteen Seventies within the nineteenth century, “in the midst of the development of the State, malones, civilization and barbarism: Daniel Guebel con The evil lady y Alvaro Abós con burning chapel”commented the driving force.
For the second broadcast subsequent week, Mucci anticipated the go to of Liliana Hecker, writer who inaugurated the version of the guide Truthful this yr, and within the third program they are going to be Ana María Shua and Guillermo Saccomano.
Milestones
The seven fools began in 1987 on Channel 13 with memorable friends. The primary program was hosted by Cristina Mucci and the unforgettable author and trainer of journalists Tomás Eloy Martínez.
“We had the luxurious of getting Osvaldo Soriano, Dalmiro Sáenz and Jacobo Timerman within the first program. Sadly it was not recorded. It was a debate desk. Then there was a brief block the place Tomás interviewed Alberto Laiseca and one other the place I interviewed Liliana Heker who had simply launched her novel cleavage zone“, bear in mind Mucci. With that novel, If She gained the combat in opposition to her writer who opted for one more title, a change that the writer refused and altered labels.
We ask Cristina Mucci which packages you bear in mind essentially the most for some particular motive and famous that this system archive is essential. “Osvaldo Soriano, Ricardo Piglia, and Juan José Saer got here to this system a number of occasions. However the one which unfold essentially the most was the controversy between David Viñas and Beatriz Sarlo that ended with the mental leaving the studio,” recollects the host.
On her web site, the host says that when she developed the concept of The Seven Madmenwhose title pays homage to Roberto Arlt, “4 years after the return of democracy, there have been no fashions for a cultural program within the nation. There was a really well-known French one, entitled Apostrophes“by Bernard Pivot, whose broadcasts I bear in mind having watched till I used to be drained on the headquarters of the French Embassy.”
Mucci with María Moreno.
The then auditor Carlos Gaustein authorised the mission and when Mucci realized that he would debut with the primary cultural program of democracy on a tv that “nonetheless generated a sort of reverential worry, I assumed then of Tomás Eloy Martínez, whom I had met upon his return from exile. Along with his nice tradition, Tomás had expertise, since he had labored within the early days of Telenightwith Mónica Cahen D’Anvers and Andrés Percivale.”
In 1988 they didn’t renew the contract for the cycle however the then Secretary of Tradition of the Nation, Rodolfo Rabanal, proposed taking him to ATC (now Channel 7), his residence till the tip of 2023.
The seven fools suffered one other rebellion on the display screen in 2004, when Néstor Kirchner was already governing, however the reactions of solidarity on the nationwide and worldwide stage had been so many who the federal government needed to reinstate it, though at an uncommon time.
Cristina emphasizes a key level: “A tradition program is simply viable with industrial and editorial independence. And I at all times had them. I used to be faraway from two channels, however I by no means acquired any kind of conditioning concerning the friends or the subjects of this system. Tv is large enterprise, and a cultural program is one thing else. Instances have modified, however I nonetheless consider it’s nonetheless value it.”
Regardless of the anxieties of 2024 and regardless of having been with out air for half a yr, lastly for the Metropolis Canal, which will depend on the Metropolis of Buenos Aires, at the moment managed by Jorge Macri, The seven fools He returns with glory to a tv channel with a smaller attain than nationwide public TV, however together with his coronary heart intact to the satisfaction of his followers.
*The seven fools, hosted by Cristina Mucci, will probably be broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays, at 12:30, on the Metropolis Channel. Since Saturday June 29.
