JULY 22

Biography

After graduating in Law, he began his career as a television writer in 1984 for Teleroma 56, where he experimented with new types of TV shows. After a few years, he started working at Rai as programme planner and director for the first edition of Uno mattina, hosted by Piero Badaloni and Elisabetta Gardini. After that, he collaborated with Michele Guardì in two seasons of Spot Italia, in the afternoon show Buona fortuna and in Europa Europa, which saw Fabrizio Frizzi's debut. In 1989, he began working with Raffaella Carrà on the Rai 2 show Raffaella Venerdì, Sabato e Domenica... E saranno famosi and was in charge of casting for Se fosse on Rai 2.

A close friend of Massimo Troisi’s, in the following years he met TV producer Bibi Ballandi and worked as his assistant, contributing to the founding of the TV production company Ballandi Multimedia. In November 1993, he moved to Valencia, Spain, where he worked as production manager for the audiovisual company Europroducciones.

He created some of the most innovative formats on Italian television in the last few decades, working with Fiorello, Gianni Boncompagni and Raffaella Carrà and taking part as an author in a number of TV shows such as Carràmba! Che sorpresa (then Carràmba! Che fortuna) on Rai 1, Furore on Rai 2, Matrix on Canale 5, Italia's Got Talent on Sky Uno, Quelli che il calcio on Rai 2 (for three seasons until 2016) and many others.

In 2000, he was behind the acclaimed show Libero, in which he introduced the host Teo Mammucari. He was the author of all the following seasons of the show, including the one hosted by Max Giusti. He contributed to the making of several TV shows together with prominent Italian television personalities, such as Renzo Arbore on Tu vuò fa' l'americano, broadcast on Rai 1 in 1994, and Gianni Boncompagni, with whom he authored and hosted the show Bombay on LA7 in 2007.

In 2006, he collaborated with Fiorello on the radio programme Viva Radio 2 on Rai Radio 2; the two resumed their collaboration years later on Sky Uno’s show Edicola Fiore (in 2016 and 2017). In 2019, he created and supervised the show Battute?, a daily segment hosted by Riccardo Rossi and broadcast on Rai 2 in the late evening, which won the 2020 Political Satire Award. In 2020, he was the author of the late evening show Una pezza di Lundini, aired on Rai Due and hosted by Valerio Lundini.