The transmission had been announced with great fanfare on sunday evening on Rai1, complete with a blitz after the Tg1 at 20:00 “for the first and last episode of “five Minutes” by Bruno vespa without Bruno Vespa“, as Fiorello and Fabrizio Biggio joked when launching their new show “the Pennicance“, aired by Monday, October 20 at 13:45 on Radio2. Instead,something whent wrong,and today in the studio on via Asiago in Rome,there was only the former face of “And Soliti Idiots“,while the showman connected by telephone from home. «I would quote Shakespeare: “Much ado about nothing.” Yesterday we made that mess, today I’m at home”, began Fiorello in the phone call, referring precisely to the “stolen” space from Vespa the night before, which achieved a ratings bang with over 4 million viewers.

«I had the famous, what can we call it…it’s not elegant to talk about this on the radio. We say “cuddly“» continues the presenter.