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The writer and journalist Cristina Mucci confirmed the return of the program “The Crazy Seven”a classic of cultural journalism in democracy, created in 1987. It will return on the Canal de la Ciudad screen.
“Since they took office, the new authorities at @TV_Publica never contacted me, and now I find out from the media that they will repeat programs and there will be no new recordings. Thank you all for accompanying #Los7locos for 37 years. Great record for a cultural program!!”, Mucci had published in early April on his X, Facebook and Instagram accounts.
“Los 7 Locos” is one of the most important cultural programs on Argentine television. It began airing in 1987 on Channel 13, with Mucci and the writer and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez. The program, which takes its name from the famous novel by Roberto Arlt, had been created by the current management of Public Television in charge of the intervention of Diego Chaher, the next head of public companies.
In those days Mucci told THE NATION: “I finished recording in December 2023; In general, I leave the programs prepared for the summer because many technicians take vacations, with the change of government, this time I did not do it and no one asked me to do it. I never had any news again, during the summer repeated programs were broadcast and I think they continue to be repeated. The one who tells me that they are going to repeat the programs is my producer, Fabián Roggero, but he does it out of respect and appreciation. “There was never any official communication.”
In the last few hours, in an interview on the Puerta Uno radio series (Friday 10 p.m. FM Milenium) hosted by Luis Cortina and Astrid Pikielny, Mucci herself confirmed that “Los Siete Locos” will have a screen again. It will debut between the last week of June and the first week of July on the public channel of the city of Buenos Aires, El Canal de la Ciudad.
Canal de la Ciudad (formerly Ciudad Abierta) is a cable television channel that broadcasts to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It is financed by the city government under the Ministry of Media. Its programming is based on cultural content or related to the daily life of Buenos Aires and is currently directed by Eduardo Cura.
As far as he could know THE NATIONthe program will continue with the day and time it had on Public Television, on Saturdays at 12:30, and will be repeated on Sundays at the same time.
The story of a television classic
The Seven Crazy Ones is the pioneering cultural program on Argentine television and a unique case of permanence in all Spanish-speaking countries. Devised and hosted by Cristina Mucci, it began in 1987 on Channel 13 (with Tomás Eloy Martínez), then was broadcast on ATC (with Carlos Ulanovsky), between 1990 and 2001 it was broadcast on Cablevisión, and from 2002 it returned to the programming of Channel 7, Argentine Public Television, until December 2023
Specifically dedicated to the debate of ideas and the dissemination of books and cultural activity, it has received the main figures of Argentine culture, as well as important guests from abroad (Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando Savater, Mario Benedetti, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Isabel Allende, Gilles Lipovetsky, Ray Bradbury, PD James, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, José Donoso, Jorge Edwards, Ariel Dorfman, Eduardo Galeano, Jon Lee Anderson, Rosa Montero, Mario Monicelli, Leonardo Padura, Henning Mankell, Michel Houellebecq, Alain Rouquié, Javier Cercas, Almudena Grandes, Nélida Piñón, Sergio Ramírez, Laura Restrepo, Pierre Lemaitre, Guillermo Arriaga, Paul Auster, Laurence Debray, among many others.
Conceived with journalistic criteria, it attempts to give rise to all opinions, with the only requirement of suitability. Among others, he has won the Martín Fierro (five times), Broadcasting, Gente de Letras, Leonardo (National Museum of Fine Arts), Julio Cortázar (Argentine Book Chamber) and Konex awards, and the distinctions awarded by the Book Fair of Buenos Aires (on three occasions), the Inter-American Group of Editors, the Argentine Academy of Letters, The Buenos Aires Herald, TEA, FUND TV and the Senate of the Nation.
In addition, Los Siete Locos was declared a Program of Cultural Interest by the Ministry of Culture and the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, and by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires. In 2010 Cristina Mucci received the Bicentennial Medal from the city of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 the Comitato Degli Italiani all’Estero awarded her the Ambassadors of Italianity Award.
