Greek television this year was ready for its “neighbours”. Those who simply used it as a device for various streaming services made plans for the week based on the schedule of free channels. Late millennials couldn’t resist his return Christophoros Papakaliatis (even if once it served them only as a source of jokes), his loyal followers Phoebus Delivoria they couldn’t help but stare at him, and in his first TV move, as they did (and will do) in everyone else, some dusted off Nikos Panagiotopoulos’ film to prepare for television. “This night remains.”

Domestic television it started happening again but in fact, for all those who “deleted” it forever.

But she was also ready to sing. Is it possible to look at this season’s TV program and not find a certain “recipe for success” template that answers the question “How and why this year”, in addition to agreeing on topics that are convenient for “reading” over “passers-by” and special care in some productions , but sooner or later there will be a microphone in front of him.

Appointment he gave every summer for, hopefully, 5 years Phoebus Delivorias in “Taratsa to Phoebus” he decided to essentially move into television. And it happened “Numbers”, a television venture that turns an autobiography into a vehicle for self-mockery with surreal slapstick settings and supporting characters who, when given script space, often save a lot for the series. All this, of course, in order to get into Mantra each time, where Delivorias and the troupe meet, overcoming obstacles, with the musical guest of the corresponding episode, so that Numbers is now clearly transformed into a musical. the program for their last 20 minutes is half an hour.

And if “Ta Numera” is in some sense a musical show that goes through a lot of sketches until it throws light on the stage, “This Night Remains” this time he uses the village nursery scene of the 80s as a satellite around which, to a greater or lesser extent, the entire local society revolves. Here the song may not be the product of pure artistic consumption, but it gives the aesthetic mark that the story needs to show rot in the wee hours, but also in daylight to give rise to feuds, romances and even murders that seem fabricated to see the accompaniment bouzouki, lamé and carnations.

Music, however, is not the only component of fiction this year. Those who are nostalgic for Spyros Papadopoulos will find it in his face. Yannis Bezu what they need. “What I love” is the name of a new show hosted by an actor who has made no secret of his love of singing throughout his career. In it, Bezos, together with eminent guests, each time arranges nothing more than evenings a la “To Health”, without pretentious zeybeks and tsifteteliya, increasing the numbers, but with a little history behind the songs that are heard and loved. over time in every Greek home.

And then, “Music Box” they are customized and open every week o Nikos Portokaloglou and Rena Morphy invite us for the third season in a row for a guarantee show for everyone who loves a Greek song, dedicated to those who are looking for quality and pleasure in equal measure (always with an excellent group of musicians making up the show).

Does all this tell us something? Music suddenly became a TV star? It can be reasonably argued that music has never been absent from television, when we talk about a country where every average family spends Christmas, New Year and Easter, letting some show in the back of the living room do the job of a DJ, and where there is rarely a musical talent show in every TV season.

Maybe only this year we feel that programs with a musical tone are more exciting for someone. How music is to some extent the specialized element that characterizes them. (or, at any rate, that’s probably the intention in most cases, regardless of the outcome). In other words, part of the audience tuned in to “Numbers” because of the high appreciation of Foivos Delivorias as a musician, and not a person for all occasions, a special attitude to cinema and socio-anthropological interest, the head of “Dogs” gave rise to curiosity among many, like “This night lasts” should look like on television (regardless of the fact that the resemblance to the film is almost zero), some will continue to see in the face of Yannis Bezos the quality and serious expression of the commercial and will be glad to hear him (and) sing. And let’s not necessarily follow the progress of all these series/shows to the end of all these TV viewers, which in many cases coincide.

Let’s not forget, after all, that we are talking about a television reality in which over the years even the small screen … moved to the Second National, almost the only constant was “To your health)” – even if it was the subject of comments at the youngest moment when Dimitris Bassis was a guest on the show, or because it spawned “OK boomer” memes where Spyros Papadopoulos dances to Eminem.

We probably never stopped saying, “Long live the Greek song!” Perhaps this year some did it with more alibis.