Drive In (variety show)

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Drive In
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Genre Variety
Sketch Comedy
Presented by Gianfranco D'Angelo
Ezio Greggio
Enrico Beruschi
Country of originFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
No. of seasons 6
Release
Original network Italia 1
Picture format Color
Original release October 4, 1983 – April 17, 1988

Drive In is an Italian television variety show, broadcast by Italia 1 between 1983 and 1988. It was referred as the most innovative and popular Italian television show of the 1980s. [1]

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History

Created by Antonio Ricci, the show revolutioned Italian TV conventions and languages, proposing a zany, sharp and fast humor, partly imported from the model of the Saturday Night Live . [1] It also proposed a new, different image of the women, more sensual and transgressive. [2] In reason of its high audience ratings, it has a key role in the success of Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest (now Mediaset). [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Aldo Grasso – Massimo Scaglioni, Enciclopedia della Televisione, Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003, p.215
  2. 1 2 Sandra Puccini. Nude e crudi: femminile e maschile nell'Italia di oggi. Donzelli Editore, 2009. pp. 3–7.
  3. ↑ Aldo Grasso. Radio e televisione: teorie, analisi, storie, esercizi. Vita e Pensiero, 2000. p. 182.

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