Andrea Olcese

Andrea Olcese, born in Alessandria in 1963, is an Italian radio and television showrunner.^[1]

Andrea Olcese
Born	1963 (age 61–62)
Occupation(s)	Showrunner Writer

Early life

Andrea Olcese was born in 1963.^[1] His father was Cav. Dr. Achille Olcese, a medical practitioner that practiced in military hospitals.^[2]

Career

Starting his career as a freelance journalist, writing for publications including the European Rolling Stone Magazine.^[3] Olcese wrote the book Internationalists: Introducing the Style Council, published on Riot Stories in 1985.^[4] In the late 1980s Olcese was the producer of the radio show “Rock Café” on SPER, syndicated through Italy with a daily audience of about 2.5 million listeners.^[5] In the summer of 1987, he started contributing to the TV series Hit Parade on RAIUNO named Hit Parade, which he also continued in the next season, as Discoring.^[6] In the early 1990s, he created the Top 40 music show Europop, which popularized several European born pop acts in a market previously saturated in English and American music.^[7]

During the 1990s he transitioned to television broadcasting,^[8] including the television program Rock Cafè.^[9] He also cowrote a book published about the show entitled Don Gelmini Incontra La Musica Italiana a Rock Cafe.^[10] In 1994 Olcese cofounded the television production company Einstein Multimedia with Luca Josi,^[11] where Olcese serves as CEO.^[12] He has also partnered with Brazilian networks to produce programs in Portuguese.^[13] During the 1990s Olcese was the showrunner of the shows Passaparola, Sarabanda,^[14] Novecento,^[15] Quiz Show,^[16] Agrodolce,^[17] and Love Bugs.^[18] He was also behind the 2000s Italian version of Top of the Pops broadcast on Rai 2.^[19][20]

In 2005 Olcese was the producer of the Italian production of Live 8.^[21] Over his career his television productions have earned him 5 Telegatto awards.^[22]