Alessandro Cattelan at Mediaset, abrupt stop (Backstage)

It seemed all done or almost. And it is precisely on the "almost" that the negotiations that would have brought Alessandro Cattelan to Mediaset stopped. The official reason would be that the time is too short for his arrival at Mediaset to be announced tonight during the official presentation of the Mediaset schedules.

But according to some rumors it seems that everything has come to a standstill due to a different unity of intent between the parties. Motivations aside, the only certain thing is that we will not see Alessandro Cattelan at Mediaset in the fall. As we announced in these columns, his destination was for a "late show" destined for Italia 1. The same late shows that he has been proposing for years on TV, first on Sky and then on Rai. Maybe here with some news.

Mediaset, moreover, according to what we understand, has offered Cattelan to be a juror on Io canto , but the Piedmontese presenter has refused. So for now, just a handshake between the parties and a goodbye.

At the moment, therefore, the marriage between Cattelan and Mediaset is not to be done and the matter could be discussed again and possibly made concrete in the first half of 2026. But really everything is written in the sand, at the moment. His future employment in Rai cannot be ruled out, even if not in the generalist sector. A job perhaps on Rai play, given that within the public television he has a big fan, namely the director of genre coordination Stefano Coletta. We'll see.