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

Starting his career as a freelance journalist, writing for publications including the European Rolling Stone Magazine.^[2] Olcese wrote the book Internationalists: Introducing the Style Council, published on Riot Stories in 1985.^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6]

During the 1990s he transitioned to television broadcasting,^[7] including the television program Rock Cafè.^[8] He also cowrote a book published about the show entitled Don Gelmini Incontra La Musica Italiana a Rock Cafe.^[9] In 1994 Olcese cofounded the television production company Einstein Multimedia with Luca Josi,^[10] where Olcese serves as CEO.^[11] He has also partnered with Brazilian networks to produce programs in Portuguese.^[12] During the 1990s Olcese was the showrunner of the shows Passaparola, Sarabanda,^[13] Novecento,^[14] Quiz Show,^[15] Agrodolce,^[16] and Love Bugs.^[17] He was also behind the 2000s Italian version of Top of the Pops.^[18]

In 2005 Olcese was the producer of the Italian production of Live 8.^[19] Over his career his television productions have earned him 5 Telegatto awards.^[20]