The first challenge on Saturday evening rewards you yes que vales: 4 million spectators and 28.5%. Dancing with the stars stops at 23%. All promoted and rejected
On Saturday evening television always has the flavor of a challenge that goes beyond listening: it is a cultural derby, a collective rite that opposes languages, styles and public. On the one hand, the stainless elegance of Dancing with the stars, who with the twentieth edition continues to be a fixed point of Rai. On the other, pop irreverence and the perfect mechanism of you yes que vales, real share machine. The first evening verdict is clear: 4,024,000 spectators and 28.5% for Canale 5, against 2,994,000 and 23% of Rai1. And even late at night, with the goodnight segment, De Filippi remains in the lead: 1,963,000 spectators and 24.8%. Numbers that confirm a net but not definitive domain, because the game is only at the beginning with on the one hand the debut of Tu yes que vales is a perfect mechanism, in which each gear works as if it had been oiled for years. On the opposite front, dancing with the stars is confirmed as the other great on Saturday television religion that celebrates the twentieth edition with the grace of its dancing liturgy.
You yes que vales: the pop machine that is not wrong
The return of You yes que vales It opens like an orchestra that nevernts a note. The entrance of Paolo Bonolis in the jury was the most anticipated twist: and he does not disappoint, immediately transforming the study into a small comic laboratory, with that mix of irony and improvisation that made him unmistakable. To balance the laughter is Sabrina Ferilli, who once again does not retain tears and becomes the most authentic and popular voice of the program.
The iconic moments are not lacking. The Lip-Sync challenge gave pure show: Maria De Filippi, paired with Peppe Vessicchio, in the unlikely role of Orietta Berti and Fedez, was one of the most shared images of the evening. Much less convincing Rudy Zerbi and Ilary Blasi, penalized by unwilling costumes and an absent harmony. But the emotional peak came with the couple Palumbo, father and daughter who, performing in a pole dance, have transformed a discipline often looked at with distrust in a story of love and complicity. The looks, the tears, the roar of the public: a moment that will remain among the highest of this season.
At the center, as always, Maria De Filippi. Detached, imperturbable, capable of maintaining the same glacial calm in front of a comic performance or a family drama. It is his signature: never a false step, never an emotion left to leak too much. And precisely this apparent coldness is what allows it to keep a complex mechanism together without ever making it derail. However, not everything convinces: Zerbi slips into cynicism free, and the gag of Giovannino – reinvented in the “Giovannero” version – now seems worn, unable to tear a smile.
Dancing with the stars: the elegance that resists
On the Rai front, Dancing with the stars It does not let it be intimidated. The twentieth edition debuts with the solidity of a show that knows its strengths: dance as a show, the mixture of emotion and competition, the class of Milly Carlucci, who once again carries on four hours of direct with lightness and irony.
The final ranking crowns Francesca Fialdini and Giovanni Pernice, protagonists of a magnetic performance that has conquered the public and jury. Behind them Rosa Chemical with Erica Martinelli, while Paolo Belli, for the first time competing after twenty years of music conduction, moves in the rehearsal room and then frees himself on the track with a Quick Step that becomes personal liberation. Fourth, but at the center of the media scene, Barbara D’Urso: her Rumba was welcomed by a standing ovation, but the “vaffa” whispered to Selvaggia Lucarelli, which immediately became viral, is above all the “vaffa”. After two years of absence, his return was the real pop event of the evening, capable of splitting the audience as only she knows how to do.
Not everything was up to par. The allusive and sexist comments aimed at Marcella Bella from the jurors have out of tune like a false step in a choreography, throwing a shadow of bad taste on a applauded performance. Still worse is the zero assigned by Lucarelli and Mariotto to Beppe Convertini: plus a free humiliation than an artistic judgment, and the confirmation that sometimes the jury forgets the meaning of the show, which should be entertainment and non -court.
The first evening gave a clear verdict: You yes que vales dominate, Dancing with the stars resist. But the strength of Saturday evening television is not in numbers – which also count – but in the ability to transform each week into an arena where the public chooses not only what to look at, but to what language to belong. On the one hand the pop and moving irony of Canale 5, on the other the elegant and traditional rite of Rai1. And the feeling is that, in this long season, the twists and turns will not fail.
