Domingão do Faustão
| Domingão do Faustão | |
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| Created by | Detto Costa Augusto César Vanucci Boninho Maurício Nunnes |
| Developed by | Rede Globo |
| Directed by | Jayme Praça Ulysses Cruz Adriano Ricco Gustavo Alves Cris Gomes Henrique Matias Edson Erdmann |
| Presented by | Fausto Silva |
| Country of origin | Brazil |
| Original language(s) | Portuguese |
| No. of seasons | 25 |
| No. of episodes | 1505 (as of March 23, 2014) |
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| Running time | 170 minutes |
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| Picture format |
480i SDTV (1989-2009) 1080p (HDTV) (2009-) |
| Original release | March 26, 1989 – present |
Domingão do Faustão (literally Big Fausto's Big Sunday) is a Brazilian TV show aired every Sunday since 1989. Produced by Rede Globo and hosted by Fausto Silva also known as Faustão, it features live music performances (usually by the most popular artists in Brazil at the time) as well as special segments, such as the Dança dos Famosos (Brazilian version of Dancing with the Stars) and the more recent Dança no Gelo (Dancing on Ice). It is one of the oldest and most famous of Globo's television shows since its first broadcast in 1989.
The show premiered on March 26, 1989, on Rede Globo, at 4:00pm, presented by Fausto Silva, who had been hired after his good performance in Perdidos na Noite. The main objective of the program was ambitious: surpass the audience numbers of the Programa Silvio Santos (SBT). The program followed a style: live music performances, dancers, and interviews with several popular artists from Brazil. Quickly, Globo saw its audience grow and subsequently exceed the numbers of Silvio Santos.
The audience of the program remained stable until Domingo Legal, presented by Augusto Liberato (popularly known as 'Gugu'), began to perform well, and reached the leadership spot in October 1997. Subsequently, both programs represented 60% of the share, monopolizing the audience of Brazilian television on Sunday.
This dispute over leadership extended until the decade of 2000. However, Fausto Silva saw his program becoming favored after the rival program began losing popularity due to a scandal involving Gugu and the criminal faction PCC.
In 2008, Domingão celebrated the thousandth program, a fact that was highlighted by Veja magazine in a special edition. In addition to the celebrations, Fausto was congratulated by some personalities, including then president Lula. In 2009, the program celebrated its 20-year mark on the air, without interruption, promoting the edition Melhores do Ano de 2008 (which was intentionally delayed). In December of that year, the resignation of some members of the cast and production was announced. Among them, Adriana Colin (merchandising), Caçulinha(literally little young brother - musical director)and Lucimara Parisi (director).
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