Secret Song is no surprise. Serena Rossi stops at 16% against the reruns of Ciao Darwin

If a surprise program is unsurprising, there is a problem. On the fourth episode Secret Song, it original format The Secret Song comes from France, where it airs once a month, raises several questions. And one wonders not only what happened to the article in the title. The mechanism of the Friday night show of Rai1 it is repeated six times in two and a half hours: the presenter talks almost obsessively about secret dressing rooms that are not seen, about secret songs that are rarely explained, about the phantom fear of the white armchair.

Rai1 and the director Coletta have strongly focused on the new show hosted by Serena Rossi, an unprecedented hype and second Dagospia, a budget exceeding one million euros per episode. It is enough to know the ABC of the small screen to do the math, for example to observe the guest list, not in promotion, of the episode aired on Friday evening: Belen Rodriguez, Ornella Muti, Marco Bocci, Orietta Berti, Alessio Boni, Eleonora Daniele, Massimo Ranieri, Francesca Michielin, Syria, Tosca, Fabio Concato, Laura Chiatti, Giusy Ferreri, Christiane Filangieri, Cecilia Rodriguez.

The guest sits in the white armchair, the authors pretending to be spectators ask questions, lengthening the time too much. The rest is repeated in a cyclical way: an initial video message or a film with family photos, the arrival on stage of the singer, almost never linked to whoever receives the surprise, during the performance the arrival on stage of colleagues, friends, relatives . Some surprises do not differ much from those of the Sunday containers, others succeed in their intent. If the guest gets excited, the television rendering is facilitated but it is difficult to excite and leave the viewer speechless, not only for the weakness of what is broadcast but for a previous passage: the audience already knows who will arrive on stage, they already know what will happen. He also knows he must be moved in a spirit that sins of presumption and lacks narrative. And if you think about the strength of titles of this kind, da Carramba what a surprise a You’ve Got Mail, the road is even more complicated.

Canzone Segreta should have occupied the Saturday evening of Rai1: “During a connection via Zoom with the authors and the project manager of the broadcast, at a certain point Coletta enters and says to me: ‘Stretch your hand’. Without understanding, I stretched it towards the video and he: ‘Here, we are giving you the keys of the Saturday night of Rai1’. There I was moved, I thought about all the work, the efforts of these years ”, Rossi had declared to the weekly Oggi. Then the escape from Maria De Filippi and from Amici 20 with the armored position on Friday against Canale 5 “off” and with the airing of the reruns of the reruns of Ciao Darwin. A solution that did not save Rossi yesterday Secret Song is dropped again stopping alone 3,802,000 viewers with 16.6%, not far away Channel 5 with the third revival of Ciao Darwin seen by 2.659.000 with the 14.1% share.

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