l am worried about hosting alla italiana.
I have seen ESC 1991, which was terrible, some Sanremo shows and now Drag Race Italia, which is absolutely the worst of the franchise.
There might be a problem for me with talking Italians, and I mean talking way too much, which it makes it painful and tiring to watch. Why on earth does it take then minutes from the opening of Snatch Game to the first question? Because Barbara d'Ursi was invited to hold an epic monologue full of herself. Wow. The show prior Tiziano Ferro got to do it twice. I appreciate a more detailed judgment for the queens but not so much bla bla bla.
If Eurovision is about the hosts talking about themselves for 5 minutes or more straight, Italy should never win again.
I answer your concern:
1) You cannot compare the ESC universe of 1991 with that of 2022. Only since the 2000s and with the hard effort of the organization has the ESC gone outside the European borders and is increasing the positive judgments regarding the quality of music (previously considered too trashy and snubbed by great artists). Italy now has every desire to invest in the ESC (which data in hand is less expensive than organizing Sanremo).
2) You took me as examples "Drag Race Italy", and the monologues of Barbara D'Urso… You scraped the bottom of the barrel. In Italy we also have programs and vip of much higher thickness.
3) The ESC will speak in English (not Italian) and therefore presenters will be chosen who are fluent in foreign languages. Among the many people who can lead the ESC is Ema Stokholma who speaks both English and French.
4) The European format will be respected at the ESC for a few reasons: the cost is lower (fewer evenings, fewer hours), the EBU will monitor our work by making us adapt the management to the ESC policy and by now we understand how the format works (we have been training for 10 years). Probably, in Italy programs parallel to the ESC could be created (like what happens with the "Prima Festival" where we will talk about the songs of the past, there will be special guests and forecasts and polls will be made).
5) Italy should no longer win the ESC regardless. Italy's victory appears to have triggered a stomach ulcer epidemic
Probably, Italy managed to win the ESC fraudulently with the help of pharmaceutical companies wishing to profit from the sale of gastroprotectors