Rai, Alberto Angela’s Noos postponed and the left now attacks Temptation Island: “Surrender” –

To attack the government, the left is attacking Temptation Island. The program about cuckoldry and love affairs by Maria De Filippi is sweeping the ratings on Canale 5. A success that has been linked to the decision to postpone the broadcast of Noos, Alberto Angela’s program, on Rai1 by a few weeks. The decision to move the broadcast “to August 22 was taken by Rai – in agreement with the host and beyond any imaginative reconstruction of the story – to best protect and enhance a product of excellence, which represents a unicum in the Italian television panorama and is a jewel in the crown of public service, thanks to the passion, the ability to communicate of absolute quality and the professionalism of Alberto Angela”, reads a note from Rai following the news of the postponement of the program that was supposed to air this evening, comparing itself with the final of Temptation Island.

“It is no coincidence – the note continues – that ‘Noos’ is the most popular TV program according to Qualitel data and represents well how Rai – to use Angela’s own words – continues to work for culture, in a way that is accessible to all and in all directions. And precisely in consideration of all this, the appointment with the program is only postponed: the journey of cultural dissemination and of Alberto Angela – in all fields of knowledge – continues”.

However, the public service’s move was used to attack the center-right. “From TeleMeloni to TelePierSilvioMeloni, it’s a short step. The top brass of Meloni’s Rai are suffering from competition from Mediaset”, thunders the leader of the Green and Left Alliance Peppe De Cristofaro, member of the Rai Supervisory Commission. He also brings up the Sanremo Festival: “It is being moved a week, so as not to clash with the Coppa Italia challenges broadcast, precisely, by Canale5. While Alberto Angela’s scientific-cultural program is being moved to the end of August due to competition from ‘Temptation Island’, also on Canale5. These are dark times for the Fratoianni and Bonelli-led Rai”, writes the representative of Fratoianni and Bonelli’s party who links the farewell of president Marinella Soldi with the AGCOM’s objections to the covert advertising of John Travolta’s shoes at Sanremo 2024 and speaks of an “unconditional surrender” of the public service. In short, after Ilaria Salis we start again from Temptation Island.