Catherine Balivo in danger. It seems that Nunzia De Girolamoformer parliamentarian now a career presenter, has set her sights on the space occupied by her colleague from Aversa for about two years. The latter still fails to achieve the expected results despite its program – The right time – was renewed for the second year in a row after last year’s failure. It is for this reason that the Rai management is apparently considering a major change in this part of the calendar.
Is Nunzia De Girolamo replacing Caterina Balivo?
After the good success of Summer live And Hi MaleNunzia De Girolamo would like to have more space on television, where she arrived after her farewell to politics. Alberto Dandolo reported the indiscretion in the weekly Today: “The former parliamentarian has a dream that he would soon like to realize: host a popular program in the time slot currently occupied by The right time by Caterina Balivo…”.
Thanks to the audiences obtained with its latest programs, Nunzia would have excellent chances to replace Balivo: “From Girolamo, thanks to the love that the public showed him during the last edition of Summer liveshe could achieve her goal if Caterina engaged in other professional paths…”.
Just in a recent interview with Corriere della SeraCaterina Balivo admitted between the lines a certain weariness of television, which she even defined “tainted”.
“At 25 I hosted the same time slot as today and there I could say: you stayed there. But then I look at the other presenters and realize that television is obsolete, even Clerici has been doing this program for 20 years and De Filippi herself has been doing it in the afternoon for 25 years. They did other things too, but they I’m a different age from mine: there’s time,” he says.
Caterina Balivo and digging into the authors of The Good Time
Over the past two years, they have not gone unnoticed the excavations that Caterina Balivo addressed to the authors of The right time, show with which she returned to video in the early afternoon in 2023 after always abandoning the same time slot during the pandemic.
A year ago, he debuted the new format with a strange opening speech: “We’re going to give it our all. With a fantastic working group, which I still don’t like. They won’t like me or they will like me, I don’t know how it’s going to happen.” Then the live: “The authors want it that way” and a decidedly bitter season finale: “180 episodes were for nothing”.
Even in recent months, there has been no shortage of teasing: “I don’t like games on TV”Balivo said, always referring to the segments and blocks the authors wanted. Furthermore, in the interview with the newspaper Via Solferino, she bluntly attacked the male presenters who, according to Balivo, would have a significantly easier life.
“The fact is that we women can have different registers, men much less so. Where can you find someone who will interview you openly? We put the women there and by chance the men arrive to do the easiest things, coincidence with moments which combine very well the family dimension and the aperitif,” he underlined.