Fantástico
Encyclopedia
Portuguese language
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for Fantastic) is a Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian weekly television newsmagazine
Newsmagazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, featuring articles or segments on current events...
broadcast on Sundays by Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
.
Format
The show's first episode was on August 5, 1973 in black-and-whiteBlack-and-white
Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...
. It began as a variety show featuring music, dance numbers, teletheater, humor, mixed with a small amount of news. The following year, it began transmission in color
PAL-M (television)
PAL-M is the TV system used in Brazil since February 19, 1972. At that time, Brazil was the first South American country to broadcast in colour. Colour TV broadcast began on September 1972 when the TV networks Globo, Tupi and Bandeirantes TV transmitted the Caxias do Sul Grape Festival. Transition...
. In September 1988, the program was shown live and has continued since. In 1993 the format was changed to a television newsmagazine.
The format of Fantástico is an open ended newscast. The hosts introduce the stories that are then reported by the same host. Some segments will include other reporters, typically when going live to a location.
The stories are introduced from a set where the hosts both stand up, backgrounds all relating to a theme named at the end of the program. The backgrounds change according to the story being presented as well, sometimes interacting with the hosts in a non-verbal way. The show undertakes its own investigations and follows up on investigations instigated by national newspapers, typically from O Globo
O Globo
O Globo is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. O Globo is the most prominent print publication in the Marinho family's Brazilian media conglomerate....
, and other sources.
Topics for the show vary, some of the themes reported on are political scandals, environment, crime, health, science & technology, sports, religion and international news. Occasionally stories will be grouped into special sequences that span various weeks. These stories follow the same theme, usually going around the country to find examples and show how they work. Some of the past themes treated in this manner are, False Psychic, Indigenous Religions, Indigenous Baptism, the Crime Wave in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, a Voyage Around the World and African Tribal Customs.
Sometimes the Brazilian actors Otávio Muller and Heloísa Périssé
Heloísa Périssé
Heloísa Perlingeiro Périssé is a Brazilian actress and writer. Périssé was born in Rio de Janeiro and has appeared in Brazilian television shows and films. She has also written for the TV show Sai de Baixo....
present "Lolô and Tavinho", and Ingrid Guimarães presents the fiction
Fiction
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al supermodel
Supermodel
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"Leandra Borges".
Scenographer
Scenographer
A scenographer develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design. The term originated in theater...
Cyro Del Nero
Cyro Del Nero
Cyro Del Nero was an Brazilian scenographer and set designer. Del Nero worked in the theater, television and film industries for more than 50 years. He was also a professor of theatrical costume and stage design at the University of São Paulo.Del Nero was born in Brás, a district in Sao Paulo...
worked as the show's art director
Art director
The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
, designing much of the look of the series.
Hosts
The show has no fixed set of hosts as they travel around the world to report on various stories for the program. Some of the hosts include:- Pedro BialPedro BialPedro Bial is a Brazilian producer, director, writer, journalist and a celebrity TV presenter, best known for hosting the Variety Show Fantástico, and the Reality Show Big Brother Brasil, -Career:Bial graduated in journalism from PUC-RJ. His career, as a reporter, began at Rede Globo in 1981...
(1996–2007) - Glória Maria (1986–2007)
- Cid Moreira (1973–1988)
- William Bonner (1988–1993)
- Sérgio Chapelin (1973–1992)
- William Monteiro (1988–1993)
- Valéria Monteiro (1987–1992)
- Fátima Bernardes (1993–1996)
- Celso Freitas (1991–1996 and the special program in 2003)
- Sandra Annenberg (1991–1996)
- Eva Byte (virtual hostessVirtual actorA virtual human or digital clone is the creation or re-creation of a human being in image and voice using computer-generated imagery and sound...
) (2004–2005) - Patrícia Poeta (2008–present)
- Zeca Camargo (2007-present)
- Renata Ceribelli
- Tadeu Schmidt
Trivia
- Fantástico footage was once shown in MythBustersMythBustersMythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel Australia, Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel Canada, Quest...
, on the Flying Car Myth. - Fantástico was also nominated for Best Web Hit in the 2010 MTV Video Music Brazil, due to the fact occurred on June 6, 2010, when host Zeca Camargo was filmed yawning live with the show returning from commercials. The video with this incident was one of the most viewed in internet in the year of 2010, earning a nomination. It lost to the parody of Justin BieberJustin BieberJustin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager...
's "BabyBaby (Justin Bieber song)"Baby" is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It was released as the lead single from the latter half of Bieber's debut album, My World 2.0. The track was written by Bieber with Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and Terius "The-Dream" Nash, both of whom worked with Bieber on "One Time",...
", titled Justin Biba ("Little gay Justin"), made by Galo Frito.