TELEGATTI 2008 GRAN PREMIO DELLO SPETTACOLO

TV, CINEMA, SPORT AND MUSIC: THE 10 NOMINATION

The great Notte dei Telegatti is apporaching: it will be held on the night of Sunday 20 January 2008, at the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome and broadcast on Canale 5.

TV, CINEMA, SPORT and MUSIC are the four big categories that will be rewarded during the twenty-fourth edition of the Telegatti.

On 6 November a commission of experts made up by Maurizio Costanzo, Vera Montanari, Alfonso Signorini, Piera Detassis, Clemente J. Mimun, Mario Luzzatto Fegiz, Candido Cannavò, Barbara Palombelli, Mario Maffucci, Vincenzo Mollica and 5 readers of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni met to make a selection, in a period included between November 2006 and October 2007, of the programmes, films, and protagonist from the world of entertainment, music and sport that was published in Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni, on 12 November.

Subsequently, the readers of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni, using a form included in the magazine, voted for a single candidate in each category and thus determined the nominations of the three final candidates for each “TELEGATTO”. The voting forms have been sent to the notary Pasquale Lèbano in Milan, who oversaw the count and the correctness of the procedure.

The following are the NOMINATIONS for the TELEGATTI 2008:

TELEVISION:

PROGRAMME: "Chi vuol essere milionario" Canale 5; "Striscia la notizia" Canale 5 ; "Zelig" Canale 5.

FACTUAL PROGRAMME: "Alle falde del Kilimangiaro" Raitre; "Lucignolo" Italia 1; "Matrix" Canale 5.

TV DRAMA: "I Cesaroni" Canale 5; "Il capo dei capi" Canale 5; "Maria Montessori" Canale 5.

TV PERSONALITY: Flavio Insinna; Luciana Litizzetto; Gerry Scotti.

CINEMA:

FILMS: "Natale a New York"; "Notte prima degli esami, oggi"; "Saturno contro".

ACTOR: Raoul Bova ; Carlo Verdone; Luca Zingaretti.

MUSIC:

ALBUM: Biagio Antonacci "Vicky love"; "Io canto"; "E2".

ARTIST: Biagio Antonacci; Laura Pausini; Eros Ramazzotti.

TOUR: Biagio Antonacci; Laura Pausini; .

SPORT:

SPORTSMAN: Fabio Cannavaro; Gennaro Gattuso; Valentino Rossi.

From 10 to 18 December 2007 it will be once again the public who will vote, using SMS, for the winners in each category. The names of the 10 winners of the 4 categories will be announced during the evening of the “Gran premio dello spettacolo”.

This year the Telegatti will also feature a new prize for the “best programme that doesn't exist”. In recent weeks the readers of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni were invited to propose programme ideas and hundreds arrived at the magazine's offices and the creators of the best five were invited to compile a list of the first nominations. During the jury's deliberations the editorial staff of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni chose the "best programme that doesn't exist" and its creator will take part in the Telegatti award ceremony.

Also this year the “Telegatti” will make its contribution to charity: the receipts from ticket sales from the evening will go, as in 2005, to ARECO, Associazione per la Ricerca Europea in Chirurgia Oncologica.

Cologno Monzese, 9 December 2007

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