A TV programme presented by Sergio Zavoli, broadcast by the Italian public TV channel Rai 2, about Italy during the Years of Lead, with movies, interviews with some protagonists of the period and final discussion.
Take everything you know about a talk show and throw it out the window. Forget decorum, affability and anything well-mannered, as funnyman Didier Lambert takes control and all hell breaks loose. This is where artists and celebrities sit down in the ugliest studio available in town and get toasted with no holds barred, promising the most embarrassing interview of their career.
ITV's seminal arts programme, Tempo ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost open-ended remit, enabling it to cover subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing – and much more besides. At a time when television was being criticised for dumbing down, Tempo – more than any other series – showed that ITV could indeed go highbrow whilst still remaining populist – a philosophy and outlook that was to continue into the 1970s and beyond with its successors Aquarius and The South Bank Show.