TV Audience

An excellent debut for the first episode of the miniseries La Preside on Rai 1, which attracted 4.8 million viewers with a 27% share, outperforming Canale 5, which aired the special episode Zelig 30 (celebrating the 30th anniversary of the long-running comedy show) and drew 2.9 million viewers with a 21.1% share.

On Rai 2, new episodes of the factual entertainment series Boss in Incognito recorded 845,000 viewers with a 5% share, compared with Italia 1’s airing of the film John Wick, which reached 880,000 viewers and a 4.7% share.

On Rai 3, the talk show Lo Stato delle Cose achieved 1 million viewers and a 6.3% share, while Rete 4’s talk show Quarta Repubblica totaled 743,000 viewers with a 5.5% share. On La7, the special Putin – Anatomy of a Tsar attracted 815,000 viewers with a 4.2% share.

The evening was won by Rai 1 with the debut of Luisa Ranieri in the role of a highly courageous school principal determined to bring students back to school in a very challenging neighborhood of Naples, controlled by organized crime.
La Preside is a new four-part original series produced by Bibi Film TV–Zocotoco in collaboration with Rai Fiction, directed by Luca Miniero, and airing in prime time on Rai 1 starting Monday, January 12. Loosely inspired by the true story of Eugenia Carfora—the school principal from Caivano who became a symbol of courage and determination in the fight for educational and social redemption—the series follows the mission of a visionary and stubborn woman, portrayed by Luisa Ranieri. At her first appointment as a principal, she chooses to lead the Anna Maria Ortese Institute in Naples, a school deeply affected by dropout rates and decay, located at the heart of one of Europe’s largest drug-dealing areas.