''Non è la Rai'' ('It's not
Rai
(), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (RAI), is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels a ...
') is an Italian variety television series that aired from 9 September 1991 to 30 June 1995. Initially broadcast by
Canale 5
Canale 5 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel of Mediaset, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It was the first private television network to have national coverage in Italy in 1980. On 4 December 2012, Mediaset launched Canale 5 HD, a ...
, it was moved to
Italia 1
Italia 1 (Italian pronunciation ) is an Italian free-to-air television channel on the Mediaset network, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It is aimed at both a young adult and adult audience.
Italia 1 was launched on 3 January 1982 and, was or ...
in January 1993. The show was presented by
Enrica Bonaccorti
Enrica Bonaccorti (born 18 November 1949) is an Italian television presenter and actress.
Life and career
Born in Savona, Liguria, Bonaccorti spent her adolescence in several cities, including Sassari and Genoa, because of the work of her fat ...
in its first season,
Paolo Bonolis
Paolo Bonolis (; born 14 June 1961) is an Italian television host. He made his debut in 1981 on ''3, 2, 1... contatto!'', a programme for children that aired on Italian national broadcaster RAI, Rai.
Biography
In 1982, he moved to Italia 1 wh ...
in the second and
Ambra Angiolini
Ambra Angiolini (born 22 April 1977) is an Italian actress and singer.
She made her film debut in Ferzan Özpetek's '' Saturn in Opposition'' (2007) for which she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Nastro ...
in the third and fourth.
Produced by
Gianni Boncompagni
Giandomenico "Gianni" Boncompagni (13 May 1932 – 16 April 2017) was a television and radio presenter, director, writer and lyricist.
Life and career
Born in Arezzo, at 18 years old Boncompagni moved to Sweden, where he lived for ten years do ...
, the show was broadcast every day in the afternoon, starring 100 girls between 14 and 22 years old who sang, danced and presented some
telephone competitions. The show created scandal in Italy due to the girls' age and some political declarations by Angiolini, who was 17 years old in 1994.
From the show came many Italian television, music and theatre stars such as Angiolini,
Pamela Petrarolo,
Claudia Gerini
Claudia Gerini (; born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and singer.
Life and career
Gerini was born in the city of Rome in Italy in 1971. When she was 13 she won the 1985 Miss Teenager beauty contest. Her acting debut came a year later i ...
,
Romina Mondello
Romina Mondello (born 1 March 1974) is an Italian actress and television personality.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Italy, at young age Mondello attended a theater workshop under the stage director Candido Coppetelli and studied singing and c ...
,
,
Antonella Elia
Antonella Elia (born 1 November 1963) is an Italian television personality and actress.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Italy, Elia started her career as a model and made her television debut in 1989 in a minor role in the TV series '' The Betr ...
,
Yvonne Sciò
Yvonne Brulatour Sciò (born 25 July 1969) is an Italian model and actress.
Biography
Born in Rome, Sciò was educated at St. George’s British International School. She started her career as a runway model in the late 1980s.
Following her acti ...
,
Alessia Merz,
Alessia Mancini,
Antonella Mosetti,
Emanuela Panatta,
Laura Freddi,
Miriana Trevisan,
Gloria Scotti,
Cristina Quaranta,
Sabrina Impacciatore, Barbara Lelli and Letizia Catinari.
The program was rebroadcast on the
Happy Channel on satellite TV some year after its end and in the digital channel
Mediaset Extra
Mediaset Extra is an Italian entertainment television channel, operated by the media company R.T.I. and owned by Mediaset, launched on 26 November 2010.
It is broadcast in Italy on DTT channel 34 on mux ''Mediaset 2''.
The channel programmi ...
from 2011.
Foreign version
The concept of ''Non è la Rai'' was copied by the Brazilian television network
SBT, which produced a local version called ''
Fantasia
Fantasia may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Fantasia'' (1940 film), an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney
** '' Fantasia 2000'', a sequel to the 1940 film
* ''Fantasia'' (2004 film), a Hong Kong comedy film
* ''Fantasia'' (201 ...
'', aired between 1997 and 2000 and again between 2007 and 2008.
References
External links
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Italian comedy television series
R.T.I. - Mediaset
1991 Italian television series debuts
1995 Italian television series endings
Canale 5 original programming