(By Claudio Accogli).
Gazebo, an Italian late-night political talk show, is returning to RAI3 for a fourth season starting Sunday, September 27.
The show is hosted by Diego Bianchi, a 46-year-old Roman actor, director, journalist and comedian who goes by the stage name Zoro.
It's a mix of reporting, music, and Internet, which, according to Bianchi, is a place that's continually becoming more verbally violent and stoked by a type of politics that "aims for the gut, when in truth, a politician should do just the opposite, talk to the head," Bianchi told ANSA.
This season the show on State broadcaster will go on air at close to midnight.
"The new thing that we have every year is that for the fourth time we're changing time slot," Bianchi said.
"It's something that weirds people out a little, rightfully so, because the audience doesn't even have time to get used to it before it changes," he said.
On Sunday's season opener, the topic will most likely be migrants, with reports from the borders of Hungary and Serbia, but "most likely" is the closest it is possible to get to certainty.
"We're always on air live, and we try to stay close to current events until the last possible second, just like every news show," Bianchi said.
"So, I don't really know exactly what we'll talk about on Sunday night".
The team is the same as in previous seasons, with Makkox drawing the political cartoons, the show's resident "hacker" Andrea Salerno, Mirko "Missouri 4" handling what he calls "pure journalism" - a mix "between news and the street" as well as the "Renzometer", and the show's band, playing rock, blues, and soul.
Bianchi said there isn't a specific recipe for his show's format, and calling Gazebo a satirical show is challenging, because doing satire efficiently "inevitably means being informative".
He said he's shocked by the verbal violence marking the web in recent days, and although he recognizes that "it's been going on for years", he said that especially regarding migrants, the intolerance he's seen online is "verging on that of ISIS".
"But, it's good to know that this type of thing exists, because then when you go out, you aren't surprised when you run into it on the street," he said, adding that the keyboard does permit people to write things that they wouldn't necessarily admit face-to-face, "in politics just like in football".
So, the countdown has officially begun for Gazebo's return to late night TV.
And Zoro even revealed a wardrobe secret: his envied t-shirts don't come from London or New York, but from Irma La Douce, a shop owned by a friend of his named Andrea that he met in the San Lorenzo neighborhood years ago.
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