Splendida cornice - Season 2

First aired: 9/28/2023 7 episodes

Episodes

1. Episode 1

Aired: 9/28/2023

Geppi Cucciari returns with a new edition of "Splendida Cornice". Two and a half hours of cultural entertainment, escape, popularisation, satire. And of contamination: high and low, humor and knowledge, culture and lack of culture. All ingredients of a surprising story, even for those who make it. Guests of the episode Luciano Ligabue with his latest album "Dedicato a noi", the actor Francesco Montanari, the journalist and literary critic Piero Dorfles, the composer and pianist Remo Anzovino, the Spanish presenter Lorena Berdún, popularizer of sexual freedom and exceptionally, given the very rare presences on TV, Cirque du Soleil is on tour in Italy with their new show OVO: a grandiose and exciting show for families, full of colors and moments of spectacular magic thanks to the very talented artists who bring acrobatic numbers to the stage.

2. Episode 2

Aired: 10/5/2023

Cultural entertainment, escape, disclosure, humor and knowledge, culture and lack of culture. All ingredients of a surprising story, even for those who make it. Geppi Cucciari is back with a new Splendida Cornice event. Guests of the episode are: Amanda Lear, the pianist Danilo Rea, the musician and singer-songwriter Gianluca De Rubertis, "Miss Silvani" and "la Pina", respectively Anna Mazzamauro and Milena Vukotic, for a tribute to Fantozzi with the writer's analysis Paolo Di Paolo. And again the actor Nicola Nocella, the musician Carlo Centemeri and the photographer Paolo Brillo. Connection from Palermo with Antonella Di Bartolo, head teacher of ICS " Sperone-Pertini". "Competent for one night" is the psychoanalyst Flaminia Nucci. Regular appointments then with the columns of Piero Dolfres, Roberto Mercandini and Alessandro Arcodia.

3. Episode 3

Aired: 10/12/2023

Third episode of "Splendida Cornice", the people show that combines entertainment and culture in a single television show: an elegant and engaging mix that tries to surprise the public in every episode. Geppi Cucciari's guests are Sabina Guzzanti, Drusilla Foer, Cristiana Capotondi and Nina Zilli. Also in the studio, the singer-songwriter Renzo Rubino and Cirko Vertigo, with performances inspired by Italo Calvino and the illustrator and cartoonist Simone Bianchi and the inevitable interventions by Piero Dolfres and Roberto Mercandini.

4. Episode 4

Aired: 10/19/2023

Cultural entertainment, escape, disclosure, humor and knowledge, culture and lack of culture. All ingredients of a surprising story, even for those who make it. Fourth appointment with Geppi Cucciari's people-show, with an audience selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories and with "the competent", four professors of proven professionalism forced to navigate often unlikely questions including two new entries: Elvinia Finzi, engineer nuclear power plant and daughter of Amalia Ercoli Finzi, and Professor Fabrizio Corona, lawyer and privacy expert. To these are added the linguist Giuseppe Antonelli and the civil lawyer, writer and expert on sentimental issues, Ester Viola. Guests of the episode are: Paolo Rossi, Mario Biondi, Rocco Tanica, Giacomo Poretti and, connected from the Carignano Theater in Turin, Daria Deflorian on stage with the show "Diari d'amore" directed by Nanni Moretti, and "Il Pasticcere Trotskyist" collective of cinephiles and pastry lovers.

5. Episode 5

Aired: 10/26/2023

New appointment with the people show that combines entertainment and culture in a single television show: an elegant and engaging mix that tries to surprise the public in every episode. Geppi Cucciari's guests in this episode are: Paolo Bonolis, Stefano Fresi, Giovanni Storti and Gaetano Curreri from Stadio. Furthermore, directly from the United States, the actor and musician Lee Curreri, known for his portrayal of Bruno Martelli in the film Saranno Famous, who together with the singer and actress Kaze, accompanies Geppi Cucciari in the new theme song of the program, a tribute on the notes of hunger. In the studio the dancers of the Teatro alla Scala Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino, who will perform in the Statuesque pas de deux by the choreographer Marco Pelle.

6. Episode 6

Aired: 11/2/2023

Geppi Cucciari presents a people show, attentive to current events. The ironic and light-hearted story of today's world through books, films, social media, television and art. Actors, friends and witnesses of our time bring to TV an exclusive collection made up of words, anecdotes, curiosities, objects and build the week moment by moment. Guests include Paola Cortellesi, fresh from her success at the Rome Film Festival with the film C'è Ancora Domani - of which she is the director and protagonist - and Emanuela Fanelli, who plays the role of her friend Marisa in the film. And also there will be at "Splendida Cornice": Fiorella Mannoia, Danilo Rea, I Neri Per Caso, Carla Signoris, Rocco Tanica, the director and actress Emma Dante and in connection the Israeli singer Noa. The studio hosts an audience selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people in bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.

7. Episode 7

Aired: 11/9/2023

Last appointment with the people show that combines high and low, humor and knowledge, culture and lack of culture, which combines entertainment and culture in a single television show: an elegant and engaging mix that tries to surprise the public in every episode. Geppi Cucciari's guests are: the Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, Enzo Iacchetti, Pupi Avati, Serena Dandini, Emanuela Fanelli, Alex Britti, Articolo 31, Alessandro Betti, Corrado Tedeschi, Carlo Cottarelli, Sigfrido Ranucci. And again, Greta Scarano and Ambrosia Caldarelli, soon to be protagonists of the Rai fiction "Circeo" and Filippo Nigro. There will also be space for art with Michelangelo Pistoletto connecting from Paris, the Palermo street artist Igor Scalisi Palminteri and a performance taken from the show "Callas Callas Callas" by the Cob Compagnia Opus Ballet.