''Domingão com Huck'' (lit. ''Big Sunday with Huck'') is a Brazilian

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hosted by

Luciano Huck Luciano Grostein Huck (born 3 September 1971) is a Brazilian TV host and entrepreneur. From 2000 to 2021, he hosted the TV show ''Caldeirão do Huck'', aired every Saturday on Brazilian network TV Globo, and also broadcast to 114 countries, vi ...

. Premiering September 5, 2021 on

TV Globo TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Grupo Globo. The TV station ...

, it is the successor to both ''

Domingão do Faustão ''Domingão do Faustão'' (literally ''Big Fausto's Big Sunday'') was a Brazilian TV show aired every Sunday from 1989 to 2021. Produced by Rede Globo and hosted by Fausto Silva (also known as Faustão), it featured live music performances (usual ...

'', and Huck's previous show ''Caldeirão do Huck''.

History

In June 2021, after

Fausto Silva Fausto Corrêa da Silva (born May 3, 1950) commonly known as Faustão (literally Big Fausto), is a Brazilian television presenter. He is best known as the host of long-running Sunday afternoon show ''Domingão do Faustão ''Domingão do Faus ...

left the network and signed with

Rede Bandeirantes Rede Bandeirantes (, ''Bandeirantes Network''), or simply known as Band (), is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It began broadcasting on May 13, 1967 on VHF channel 13 in São Paulo. Its founder was businessman João Saad with t ...

(where he would host the new show ''

Faustão na Band ''Faustão na Band'' ( lit. ''Big Fausto on Band'') is a Brazilian variety show. Hosted by Fausto Silva, it premiered January 17, 2022 on Rede Bandeirantes, following Silva's departure of TV Globo and its long-running ''Domingão do Faustão.'' ...

'' in 2022), Globo announced that

—who had hosted the variety show ''Caldeirão do Huck'' for the network since 2000''—''would host a new Sunday-afternoon variety show in September 2021 to replace the long-running ''

''. ''Domingão com Huck'' premiered on September 5, 2021.'' ''Meanwhile,

Marcos Mion Marcos Chaib Mion (born June 20, 1979 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian TV host, actor, voice actor, author and businessman (Partner of V.Rom). Mion studied Philosophy at Universidade de São Paulo, and later graduated in Communication and Body Arts ...

would succeed Huck on '' Caldeirão'', which premiered the day prior.' The November 7, 2021 episode featured a tribute to sertanejo singer

Marília Mendonça Marília Dias Mendonça (; 22 July 1995 – 5 November 2021) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist. She is posthumously recognized in Brazil as the 'queen of sofrência', a subgenre of sertanejo music, and has been recognized f ...

, who had died in a

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earlier that week. Huck faced criticism for some of the remarks he made during the episode, including saying that he saw "half" of Marília, Maiara, and Maraísa in concert because they were skinny. He also discussed his survival of a plane crash with his family in 2015, which some viewers criticized as

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. Huck apologized the following week, saying that he immediately regretted the joke and believed that people should not be judged on their appearance.

Segments

Some of the major game show and reality competition segments seen on ''Domingão com Huck'' have been carried over from ''Faustão'' and ''Caldeirão'', including ''

Dança dos Famosos ''Dança dos Famosos'' (lit. ''Dance of the Famous'') is a Brazilian dance competition show. It premiered on November 20, on TV Globo as a one-hour segment on '' Domingão do Faustão'', hosted by Fausto Silva. Format The show pairs a number of ...

,'' ''

Show dos Famosos ''Show dos Famosos'' (lit. ''Show of the Famous'') is a Brazilian reality singing competition series. The series is an adaptation of the Spanish format ''Your Face Sounds Familiar'', featuring celebrities portraying various musicians. The series p ...

,'' ''Soletrando,'' '' Quem quer ser um milionário?'','''' and ''The Wall''. Globo's annual

Melhores do Ano ''Melhores do Ano Troféu Domingão'', or just ''Melhores do Ano'' (''Best of the Year''), is an annual awards ceremony presented by TV Globo. Viewers vote on three artists who have been brilliant and successful during the year on the network, in m ...

presentation also moved to the program from ''Faustão''. New segments have also been produced for the series, including '' Acredite Em Quem Quiser'' and ''

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.''

Reception

Viewership

In the

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ratings, the series premiere of ''Domingão com Huck'' received 18.5 rating points (approximately 1.4 million viewers) in

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, down from the numbers that ''Faustão'' had received. It was originally intended to air following Brazil's match against

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in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, but the match was curtailed in the fifth minute due to

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issues; Globo aired the film ''

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'' in place of the cancelled match, causing ''Domingão com Huck'' to be pre-empted by 35 minutes. The November 7, 2021 episode with tributes to Marília Mendonça received 19.1 ratings points, its largest audience at the time. The June 5, 2022 episode—which featured interviews with the cast of Globo's telenovela ''Pantanal'' from its namesake—brought ''Domingão com Huck'' its largest audience to-date, with a 19.7 rating.

References

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