‘Friends’, tomorrow May 15th the final: who are the favorites?

Countdown to the final of ‘Amici’, which will be broadcast tomorrow 15 May. Five finalists, all with a victory already in their pockets: in fact, as never before this year, five guys who have already won are competing for the winner’s cup. The three singers, from the favorite in the predictions Sangiovanni to Aka7even and Deddy, have all already obtained gold or platinum certifications of their unreleased songs published during the course in the school of the longest-lived talent show on Italian TV and top positions in the rankings: Sangiovanni is currently at the third place among singles with ‘Lady’ at seventeenth with ‘All night’, Aka at fourth with ‘I miss you’, Eddy at eighteenth with ‘0 Passi’. As for the two dancers, the beloved Giulia (the only one able to worry the boyfriend-opponent Sangiovanni in the bookmakers’ quotations) and the tenacious Alessandro: the first has always won the weekly Tim Award, resulting in the most voted pupil by the studio audience; the second has already received two prestigious job offers. Karl Sydow (Oscar in 2021 as producer of the film ‘The Father’ and producer of musicals all over the world) has offered him a place in the new production of ‘Dirty Dancing’ and Valerio Longo, artistic assistant director and choreographer of the Rome ballet, has proposed an employment contract for a tour that starts on June 1st. Precisely for the level of the candidates, tomorrow’s final, live from the Teatro 8 of the Titanus Elios studios in Rome, will be at a high spectacular rate, with the presenter Maria De Filippi ready to celebrate a year of record ratings: the average of 8 episodes of the evening of ‘Amici’ up to the semifinal was 27.53% share, equal to 5,746,000 spectators. For the occasion, Pio and Amedeo will return guests who, returning from the success of ‘Felicissima Sera’, will announce their ‘Felicissimo Show’ for May 3, 2022 at the Arena di Verona. For the absolute winner of the program there is a prize worth 150 thousand euros in gold tokens. But during the show other awards will also be given: the category prize (both for singing and dancing) worth 50 thousand euros in gold tokens; the Tim prize given by the judging audience in the various evenings and by the Tim community, worth 30 thousand euros in gold tokens; the Siae prize, presented by the singer-songwriter Giovanni Caccamo for the best text, worth 20 thousand euros in gold tokens; the Marlu ‘prize, to each finalist worth 7 thousand euros in gold tokens; the Radio award to the unpublished favorite (a plaque awarded by the Rds Networks, Radio Italia, R101 and Rtl 102.5). To these is added the traditional Tim Critics Award worth 50 thousand euros in gold tokens, awarded by a jury of journalists from the main Italian newspapers and web, connected in streaming due to the Covid-19 emergency.