Rosati proposed to Rai a new more articulated version of DSNS including sharing and comments of the families of the protagonists. But this new format was too innovative. Rai2 proposed him to realize "The family psychologist" with Alessandro Cecchi Paone based on the letters of the audience but without psychodramas. The program was less spectacular but more intelligent than "Big Brother" and other Reality to which Ottavio refused to cooperate. "Sooner or later, he told himself, the right time for a new DSNS will come ... Maybe in the 2000s":