Farewell to Maurizio Costanzo, the sorcerer of the talk

His show was a formidable incubator of populism and created a first great alchemy: successfully bringing together trash and committed TV

It is said that the cinepanettoni told the transformations of Italy in the 1980s with surgical precision. Maurizio Costanzo did better. He shaped that Italy, he created it, he invented it night after night in the sitting room of the “Teatro Parioli in Rome”, as the speaker’s voice said, with great solemnity, before each episode.