The news was released in an official statement from the company. The agreement will have a duration of four years and “the projects that will involve him will be announced in the coming weeks”
The rumors already gave it outside Rai and today the confirmation has arrived: Fabio Fazio will arrive at Discovery. The announcement came from the same company, Warner Bros. Discovery, with an official statement. With him on New onesstarting next fall, there will also be Luciana Littizzetto.
“That’s how it went,” said the conductor hotly intercepted by Republic. Then, in the usual pre-episode connection with Tg3, Fazio made an obvious connection with the announcement made in the Sanremo week by Gianmarco Mazzi (“we will give the country a new narrative”) and said: “Not all the protagonists are suitable for all the stories”. Viale Mazzini had not yet renewed the contract with the landlord’s What’s the weather like, program with stellar guests and whose conductor, Fazio, in recent years has created special programs such as the one on the 70th anniversary of the Liberation, on the memory of De Andrè, on the 25th anniversary of the Falcone and Borsellino massacres and, most recently, the live broadcast with Liliana Segre from Platform 21 of the Milan Central Station.
On the other hand, Fazio, who shared the news of Discovery on Twitter, had entered the sights of the new course of public television wanted by the Meloni government, which started primarily with the resignation of the managing director appointed by Mario Draghi, Carlo Fuortesand from the arrival in Viale Mazzini of Roberto Sergio, considered in quota Brothers of Italy. The deal, reads the Discovery release, will last for four years and “in the coming weeks the projects that will see him involved and the role he will have, thanks to his talent and experience, in the development of the Warner Bros group in Italy will be announced”, the company says. In fact, the comedian, “star of Italian comedy and protagonist” together with the conductor “of one of the most successful artistic duos, among the longest and most profitable in Italian television, will also be part of the project”.
Fazio then leaves the Rai which has seen him grow and where he has worked, with only one break, for forty years. “We are thrilled to welcome a champion like Fabio Fazio – he commented Alessandro Araimo, GM Italy & Iberia of Warner Bros. Discovery – and proud that one of the most relevant and influential faces of Italian television has chosen Warner Bros. Discovery and Canale Nove to continue his extraordinary career”. The manager underlined that he is “impatient” to start working with the two “talents”, “certain that this synergy can further grow our rich portfolio of TV channels and even more generally the Warner Bros. Discovery group in Italy” .