Domingão do Faustão


Domingão do Faustão is a Brazilian TV show aired every Sunday since 1989. Produced by Rede Globo and hosted by Fausto Silva, it features live music performances as well as special segments, such as the Dança dos Famosos and the more recent Dança no Gelo. It is one of the oldest and most famous of Globo's television shows since its first broadcast in 1989.

History

The show premiered on March 26, 1989, on Rede Globo, at 4:00 p.m., 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. 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, 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. In December of that year, the resignation of some members of the cast and production was announced. Among them, Adriana Colin, Caçulinha and Lucimara Parisi.

Regular segments

Dança dos Famosos

The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing audience in order to survive potential elimination.
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Melhores do Ano

Melhores do Ano is an event promoted by the program to reward the best artists of the year.
;2015 edition
Best Actor of TelenovelaBest Actress of Telenovela

  • Alexandre Nero -
  • *Rafael Cardoso -
  • *Rodrigo Lombardi -
  • Giovanna Antonelli -
  • *Alinne Moraes -
  • *Drica Moraes -
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Rainer Cadete -
  • *Juliano Cazarré -
  • *Tonico Pereira -
  • Grazi Massafera -
  • *Bruna Linzmeyer -
  • *Cássia Kis -
    • Best Revelation ActorBest Revelation Actress
  • Rafael Vitti -
  • *Gabriel Leone -
  • *Mauricio Destri -
  • Isabella Santoni -
  • *Agatha Moreira -
  • *Camila Queiroz -
    • Best Actor of SeriesBest Actress of Series
  • Vladimir Brichta -
  • *Enrique Díaz -
  • *Lázaro Ramos -
  • Paolla Oliveira -
  • *Fernanda Torres -
  • *Taís Araújo -
    • ComedyBest Children Actress/Actor
  • Rodrigo Sant'Anna -
  • *Leandro Hassum -
  • *Marcelo Adnet -
  • Mel Maia -
  • *João Gabriel D'Aleluia -
  • *Sabrina Nonata -
    • Best Male SingerBest Female Singer
  • Luan Santana
  • *Lucas Lucco
  • *Thiaguinho
  • Anitta
  • *Claudia Leitte
  • *Ivete Sangalo
    • Song of YearBest Journalism
  • "Hoje" -
  • *"A Noite" -
  • *"Escreve Aí" -
  • Renata Vasconcellos''' -
  • *Maria Júlia Coutinho -
  • *Sandra Annenberg -

    • Impact

    Ratings

    Domingão debuted with a central objective: to surpass the audience of the popular Programa Silvio Santos. According to IBOPE, some affiliated stations SBT recorded 60 rating points during program airing, an easy win for Globo. Soon after the premiere, Domingão, broadcast during prime time on Sunday, between 4:00 pm and 19:00 pm, scored 36 points average, compared to 20 for Silvio Santos in São Paulo. In Rio de Janeiro, it was 36 points for 'Domingão' versus 16 points for TV Manchete.
    The program remained leader for 8 consecutive years, until the SBT launched Domingo Legal, a similar program presented by Augusto Liberato, who quickly became popular and took over the leadership of IBOPE ratings. The loss of ratings forced Fausto and his production team to appeal to alternatives, such as the controversial segment Sushi Erótico. However, the program still lost more audience and popularity, and Domingo Legal continued to grow. However, some years later, the rival program would lose popularity, after displaying a false report in which alleged members of the PCC threatened the death of some of Brazil's media personalities. Later, Fausto again lead the IBOPE Ratings.
    Fausto continued to lead the public by the end of the 2000s. However, in 2010, Fausto returned to facing problems with the audience. Gugu, who moved to TV Record a year earlier, began broadcasting its program in the new station simultaneously, and performed well in the ratings, and beat Fausto several times.
    In 2011, Domingão recorded its worst audience: 10 points on average, according to IBOPE Media Information. At some times of the day, Fausto came in third place, surpassed by Gugu and Eliana.
    YearViewers
    200021.0
    2001
    2002
    2003
    2004
    2005
    200622.4
    200719.2
    200818.3
    200917.2
    201017.6
    201117.1
    2012
    2013
    2014