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L'isola dei famosi (Italian: [ˈliːzola dei faˈmoːzi, -si]; Italian for The Celebrity Island or The island of the famous) is an Italian reality show, first aired on Rai 2 in 2003, before moving to Canale 5 in 2015. This program is the Italian Survivor for celebrities.
| L'isola dei famosi | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Charlie Parsons |
| Directed by | Egidio Romio (2003–2012) Roberto Cenci (2015–2018, 2021–present) Paolo Riccadonna (2019) |
| Presented by | Simona Ventura (2003–2008, 2010–2011) Nicola Savino (2011–2012) Alessia Marcuzzi (2015–2019) Ilary Blasi (2021–2023) Vladimir Luxuria (2024) |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| No. of seasons | 17 |
| Production | |
| Production company | Banijay Italia |
| Original release | |
| Network | Rai 2 (2003–2008, 2010–2012) Canale 5 (2015–2019, 2021–2024) |
| Release | September 19, 2003 – present |
| Related | |
| Expedition Robinson Survivor Spain Survivor U.S. | |
The first eight seasons of the show, broadcast from 2003 to 2011, were aired on Rai 2 and hosted by Simona Ventura: after her departure in June 2011[1] to Sky Italia the program underwent a big change in the format; starting in the ninth season in 2012, the program had two new hosts, Nicola Savino in the studio of Rai 2 and former winner Vladimir Luxuria from the island; in 2015 both were replaced: Alessia Marcuzzi is the host in the studio, while Alberto "Alvin" Bonato is the host from the island. Alvin was replaced in 2017 by Stefano Bettarini, Ventura's former husband. Bettarini was replaced in 2018 by Stefano De Martino, former husband of Belén Rodríguez, therefore in 2019 De Martino was replaced by Alvin. Following the spread of COVID-19 in the winter of 2020, Mediaset decided to cancel this program due to social distancing rules; in 2021 Marcuzzi, as host in the studio, and Alvin, as host from the island, were replaced by Ilary Blasi and Massimiliano Rosolino.[2] Blasi in 2022 kept her position as host in the studio while Rosolino was replaced by Alvin, who came back, for the fourth time, as host from the island.[3]
Format
L'isola dei famosi is the Italian version of the international format of Survivor, created by Charlie Parsons. In February 2001, a show with a very similar format, called Survivor, was aired on Italia 1 and hosted by two journalist of TG5, Benedetta Corbi (as host in the studio) and Pietro Suber (as host from the island), but this program failed in TV ratings and was cancelled after one season. The first three seasons of L'isola took place in the Dominican Republic on the Samaná Peninsula. The show moved from the 4th to 6th season to Cayos Cochinos, Honduras. Due to the 2009 Honduran coup, however, the 7th season of the show was held in the Corn Islands, Nicaragua only to return to Honduras from the 8th season.
In L'isola dei famosi, a group of celebrity competitors (and non-celebrity competitors as well, in certain seasons) must survive on a desert island with no facilities. Competitors must build shelter, procure food and water, and find ways to maintain warmth. Candidates have a basic survival kit which, through group efforts, can be enhanced with new objects. Once a week there is a challenge winner, determined through contests of skill, balance, strength, or other factors. The competitor(s) who wins the week's challenge becomes immune from the elimination: a live nomination takes place every week, in which competitors are gradually eliminated. The last remaining contenders compete for the final prize during the season finale. Usually a portion of the final prize is donated to charity. Note that each contestant is paid by the production based on how many weeks he/she participates in the reality show.
| Seasons | Network | Presenter | Launch date | Finale date | Episodes | Days | Opinionists | Sent | Castaways | Director | Prize | Location | Winner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the studio | Connecting | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Rai 2 | Simona Ventura | 19 settembre 2003 | 14 novembre 2003 | 9 | 57 | Alfonso Signorini | Pierluigi Diaco | Selvaggia Lucarelli | Not present | Marco Mazzocchi | 11 | Egidio Romio | €200,000 | Samaná (Dominican Republic) | Walter Nudo | |
| Andrea G. Pinketts | Maria Venturi | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 17 September 2004[N 1] | 19 novembre 2004 | Luca Giurato | Antonio Mazzi | Massimo Caputi | 13 | Sergio Múñiz | ||||||||||
| Aldo Biscardi | Sandro Mayer | ||||||||||||||||
| Bruno Vespa | Giada De Blanck | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 21 settembre 2005 | 16 November 2005 | Antonella Elia | 15 | Lory Del Santo | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 13 September 2006 | 8 November 2006 | Nicola Savino | Michele Cucuzza | Nancy Dell'Olio | Paolo Brosio | 19 | Cayos Cochinos (Honduras) | Luca Calvani | ||||||||
| Lory Del Santo | Katia Ricciarelli | ||||||||||||||||
| Cesare Cadeo | Elena Santarelli | ||||||||||||||||
| Alessandro Meluzzi | Michela Rocco di Torrepadula | ||||||||||||||||
| Riccardo Rossi | Antonio Mazza | ||||||||||||||||
| Fabio Canino | Maria Giovanna Elmi | ||||||||||||||||
| Alba Parietti | |||||||||||||||||
| Platinette | Alessandro Rostagno | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 19 September 2007 | 28 November 2007 | 11 | 71 | Mara Venier | Alfonso Signorini | Sandro Mayer | Francesco Facchinetti | 18 | Manuela Villa | |||||||
| Gianluca Nicoletti | Alda D'Eusanio | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 15 September 2008 | 24 November 2008 | Luca Giurato | Pamela Prati | Filippo Magnini | 23 | Vladimir Luxuria | ||||||||||
| 7 | 24 February 2010 | 5 May 2010 | Adriano Aragozzini | Antonia Dell'Atte | Rossano Rubicondi | 22 | Corn Islands (Nicaragua) | Daniele Battaglia | |||||||||
| Gabriella Sassone | Pierluigi Diaco | ||||||||||||||||
| Rocco Barocco | Monica Setta | ||||||||||||||||
| Claudio Lippi | Nadège du Bospertus | ||||||||||||||||
| Andrea Pucci | Cristiano Malgioglio | Francesco Facchinetti | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Simona Ventura[N 2] | Nicola Savino[N 3] | 14 February 2011 | 26 April 2011 | 72 | Vladimir Luxuria | Alba Parietti | Daniele Battaglia | Cayos Cochinos (Honduras) | Giorgia Palmas | |||||||
| 9 | Nicola Savino | 25 January 2012 | 5 April 2012 | Diego Passoni | Lucilla Agosti | Laura Barriales | Vladimir Luxuria | 20 | Antonella Elia | ||||||||
| Nina Morić | Barbara De Rossi | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Canale 5 | Alessia Marcuzzi | 26 January 2015[N 4] | 23 March 2015 | 8 | 50 | Mara Venier | Alfonso Signorini | Alvin | 14 | Roberto Cenci | €100,000 | Le Donatella (Giulia and Silvia Provvedi) | ||||
| 11 | 9 March 2016 | 9 May 2016 | 10 | 62 | 18 | Giacobbe Fragomeni | |||||||||||
| 12 | 31 January 2017 | 11 April 2017 | 11 | 73 | Vladimir Luxuria | Stefano Bettarini | 14 | Raz Degan | |||||||||
| 13 | 22 January 2018 | 16 April 2018 | 13 | 85 | Mara Venier | Daniele Bossari | Gialappa's Band | Stefano De Martino | 20 | Nino "Gaspare" Formicola | |||||||
| 14 | 24 January 2019 | 1 April 2019 | 12 | 68 | Alda D'Eusanio | Alba Parietti | Alvin | 23 | Paolo Riccadonna | Marco Maddaloni | |||||||
| 15 | Ilary Blasi | 15 March 2021 | 7 June 2021 | 22 | 85 | Iva Zanicchi | Elettra Lamborghini | Tommaso Zorzi | Not present | Massimiliano Rosolino | 26 | Roberto Cenci | Simone "Awed" Paciello | ||||
| 16 | 21 March 2022 | 27 June 2022 | 25 | 99 | Nicola Savino | Vladimir Luxuria | Alvin | 32 | Nicolas Vaporidis | ||||||||
| 17 | 17 April 2023 | 19 June 2023 | 10 | 64 | Enrico Papi | 18 | Marco Mazzoli | ||||||||||
| 18 | Vladimir Luxuria | 8 April 2024 | 5 June 2024 | 14 | 59 | Sonia Bruganelli | Dario Maltese | Elenoire Casalegno | 24 | Aras Şenol | |||||||
| Season | Average Viewers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,357,000 | 26.98% |
| 2 | 7,479,000 | 32.73% |
| 3 | 7,643,000 | 35.25% |
| 4 | 4,972,000 | 25.88% |
| 5 | 5,207,000 | 23.75% |
| 6 | 5,037,000 | 22.39% |
| 7 | 4,391,000 | 19.94% |
| 8 | 3,908,000 | 15.70% |
| 9 | 3,574,000 | 14.52% |
| 10 | 5,256,000 | 25.08% |
| 11 | 4,270,000 | 22.39% |
| 12 | 4,003,000 | 20.96% |
| 13 | 4,456,000 | 24.07% |
| 14 | 2,820,000 | 16.39% |
| 15 | 3,067,000 | 18.30% |
| 16 | 2,489,000 | 18.52% |
| 17 | 2,515,000 | 19.51% |
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