Comments on: A typical Sunday afternoon on RAI UNO http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/ "Give Me the Ocular Proof" Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Alessandra http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-146 Alessandra Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:25:23 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-146 Oh, yes, L'Isola dei Famosi.... how can someone watch that stuff?? Simona Ventura???? Oh please! I understand why Raffaella Carrà is still in tv wih AUDIENCE! Those caracters will never disapear from italian tv, never. People keep on watching at them, loving them! I didn't know Big Brother was from Holland, i was sure it was from UK. And Super Quark, it is just a show for family, i mean the Angelas (they have to work i supose). Oh, yes, L’Isola dei Famosi…. how can someone watch that stuff?? Simona Ventura???? Oh please! I understand why Raffaella Carrà is still in tv wih AUDIENCE! Those caracters will never disapear from italian tv, never. People keep on watching at them, loving them!
I didn’t know Big Brother was from Holland, i was sure it was from UK.
And Super Quark, it is just a show for family, i mean the Angelas (they have to work i supose).

]]> By: shimano105 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-144 shimano105 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:28:05 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-144 I like those great Italian comedies. A fat guy driving an old FIAT Panda sees a blonde in a bikini and crashes his car into a stand full of watermelons. Ha, ha. I like those great Italian comedies.

A fat guy driving an old FIAT Panda sees a blonde in a bikini and crashes his car into a stand full of watermelons.

Ha, ha.

]]> By: Rob http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-142 Rob Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:58:55 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-142 Sadly, Grande Fratello and La Talpa are Dutch inventions. But in Holland they no longer run because people became utterly bored with the concept. I am surprised that noone mentions l'Isola dei Famosi with that shrieking presenter Simona Ventura who never fails to make my hair stand on end. There is good to be had though. Montalbano is well made, La meglio Gioventù is an absolute masterpiece and Super Quark... well if you are like me and you've seen a lot of Discovery Channel, you know that could be done much better. At least it has no dancing bimbos or guest appearances of types like Christian De Sica and Nino Frassica... Some talk/news shows are rather good. I like Fabio Fazio and I admire Michele Santoro. There's nothing quite like Anno Zero in Holland. (Probably because Holland is nothing like Italy...) Sadly, Grande Fratello and La Talpa are Dutch inventions. But in Holland they no longer run because people became utterly bored with the concept. I am surprised that noone mentions l’Isola dei Famosi with that shrieking presenter Simona Ventura who never fails to make my hair stand on end.

There is good to be had though. Montalbano is well made, La meglio Gioventù is an absolute masterpiece and Super Quark… well if you are like me and you’ve seen a lot of Discovery Channel, you know that could be done much better. At least it has no dancing bimbos or guest appearances of types like Christian De Sica and Nino Frassica…
Some talk/news shows are rather good. I like Fabio Fazio and I admire Michele Santoro. There’s nothing quite like Anno Zero in Holland. (Probably because Holland is nothing like Italy…)

]]> By: shakespearepolitics http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-141 shakespearepolitics Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:30:08 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-141 Alessandra: Sure, the reality phenomenon has become self-parody. What I find funny is that the shows have run out of the limited ideas they had before. Grande Fratello may have been "exciting" the FIRST year because it was a novelty - now if you are following La talpa sette (I've lost count) you find the same retreads from previous reality shows. Last night there was one from 'pupe e secchioni', and at least two from various editions of GF. What do you think of Super Quark? This is the show people usually cite as the one of the good programmes on Rai (if that's not an oxymoron). Sadly, Piero Angela and figlio seem to devote most of their energy to taking the spectacular moments out of other documentaries (esp. BBC) and old tv movies. An Italian film I really liked (even with the presence of Tarricone) was Muccino's Ricordati di Me, where the daughter's quest to become a "showgirl" encapsulated a profound sense of moral and social malaise. Alessandra:

Sure, the reality phenomenon has become self-parody. What I find funny is that the shows have run out of the limited ideas they had before. Grande Fratello may have been “exciting” the FIRST year because it was a novelty – now if you are following La talpa sette (I’ve lost count) you find the same retreads from previous reality shows. Last night there was one from ‘pupe e secchioni’, and at least two from various editions of GF.

What do you think of Super Quark? This is the show people usually cite as the one of the good programmes on Rai (if that’s not an oxymoron). Sadly, Piero Angela and figlio seem to devote most of their energy to taking the spectacular moments out of other documentaries (esp. BBC) and old tv movies.

An Italian film I really liked (even with the presence of Tarricone) was Muccino’s Ricordati di Me, where the daughter’s quest to become a “showgirl” encapsulated a profound sense of moral and social malaise.

]]> By: Alessandra http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-140 Alessandra Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:00:59 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-140 Hi shakespearepolitics, no before it wasn't better, it was garbage; but now it stinks even more! Trash shows like La Talpa, Grande Fratello, Buona Domenica and so on....were something you could not stand for one second, now it is the same but they have become ever worse, even more coarse and stupid, they are sinking to the botton as well as the cultural level of the Country! Hi shakespearepolitics,
no before it wasn’t better, it was garbage; but now it stinks even more! Trash shows like La Talpa, Grande Fratello, Buona Domenica and so on….were something you could not stand for one second, now it is the same but they have become ever worse, even more coarse and stupid, they are sinking to the botton as well as the cultural level of the Country!

]]> By: shakespearepolitics http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-139 shakespearepolitics Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:02:42 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-139 Rob: But does she let you change? I got stuck watching La talpa this evening... We had nothing like this back home - so Italian tv was huge among pubescent boys in Canada when my younger brother was in high school. They loved the dancers on the game shows -despite not speaking a word of Italian. My generation had only Quebec tv, so inadvertently we got introduced to Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol etc. Rob: But does she let you change? I got stuck watching La talpa this evening…

We had nothing like this back home – so Italian tv was huge among pubescent boys in Canada when my younger brother was in high school. They loved the dancers on the game shows -despite not speaking a word of Italian.

My generation had only Quebec tv, so inadvertently we got introduced to Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol etc.

]]> By: Rob http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-138 Rob Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:03:59 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-138 Italian TV often is amazing in it's old-fashioned approach. This is the country of fashion, style and thousands of years of high culture and yet, I see here what I saw on Dutch TV in the Seventies. Including the abundant use of scantily clad bimbos. Zelig is one f those programs that doesn't seem to want to move forward. At times it's great - I love Gioele Dix for example, or Teresa Mannino, and they have a great band - but so much of it is really of an unspeakably amateuristic level. The latest fad: two 'Indian' people saying 'Tandoori' all the time. Howls of laughter. <i>Amore, dov'è il telecomando?</i> Italian TV often is amazing in it’s old-fashioned approach. This is the country of fashion, style and thousands of years of high culture and yet, I see here what I saw on Dutch TV in the Seventies. Including the abundant use of scantily clad bimbos.
Zelig is one f those programs that doesn’t seem to want to move forward. At times it’s great – I love Gioele Dix for example, or Teresa Mannino, and they have a great band – but so much of it is really of an unspeakably amateuristic level. The latest fad: two ‘Indian’ people saying ‘Tandoori’ all the time. Howls of laughter.
Amore, dov’è il telecomando?

]]> By: shakespearepolitics http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-137 shakespearepolitics Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:22:44 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-137 Hi Alessandra: To be honest, I'm not sure it's getting worse - that would imply that it was better at one time. In the case of Domenica In, it seems to have been consistently horrible and sleazy (you will recall all the on air fights among the 'stars' in recent years). Hi Alessandra:

To be honest, I’m not sure it’s getting worse – that would imply that it was better at one time. In the case of Domenica In, it seems to have been consistently horrible and sleazy (you will recall all the on air fights among the ’stars’ in recent years).

]]> By: Alessandra http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-135 Alessandra Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:31:56 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-135 How sad, how sad, how sad, how sad.... If before italian tv was horrible, a heap of garbage, now it's even worse! How sad for this Nation. How sad, how sad, how sad, how sad….
If before italian tv was horrible, a heap of garbage, now it’s even worse! How sad for this Nation.

]]> By: barbaraland http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/a-typical-sunday-afternoon-on-rai-uno/#comment-134 barbaraland Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:40:53 +0000 http://shakespearepoliticsitaly.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-134 Very funny!! I don't think there is anybody in Italy who watches the whole program.....I hope!! :-) Very funny!! I don’t think there is anybody in Italy who watches the whole program…..I hope!! :-)

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