duel to the death on OK prime time

RTVE consummated the nonsense: following the instructions of Pedro Sanchez, The Public Corporation at the service of the whim of the President of the Government and his propaganda apparatus rolled out its red carpet for the arrival of the irreverent comedian, knelt before David Broncano and gave him the best caviar from his rack, at the best time.

This Monday, the comedian premiered his open version of The Resistance, stealing a few minutes from Newscast at nine o’clock at night and just before the start of its crown jewel, the Masterchef of celebrities. With that and the expectation of the arrival of the controversial comedian to the public channel, the success of the premiere was assured: 17% compared to 23% of the unbeatable Pablo Motos is a data. A piece was dedicated to Broncano in the Newscast to give it a little more promotion. The reporter Carlos del Amor signed the information: “We came to promote your program,” and then Marta Carazo gave way to the show: “I leave you with The Revolt”.

And what is La Revuelta? Well, this is what anyone can define better than anyone else. David Size In this digital: “An easy copy of La Resistencia aimed at the ‘parishioners’ of Broncano.” That is, a late night rather tacky, but placed at a mainstream time, without the freshness of the live show (it was recorded in a fake live broadcast), with a pretentious aroma, at times more childish than adolescent (almost like Victoria Marichalar), at times boring and above all too cheap to cost 90,000 euros a day. Where is the fortune they say it costs?

The good thing about Broncano’s premiere was the choice of his first guest, the five-time world champion in adapted surfing Aitor Francesena. Basque is a crack and that allowed Broncano to turn his space into a kind of testimonial program with an exemplary athlete, a likeable, extroverted and spontaneous hero, showing the audience his impressive lesson in courage. But before the arrival of the admirable Francesena, Broncano and his collaborators fed us a cascade of disorders, jokes and nonsense, not always effective. But then the comedian opted to hide behind the public service. The blind surfer was the best of the night, much more for the documentary part than for the testimony. The images of this first interviewee in action, on the board, in the sea, embellished the noisy and unentertaining mess of what is supposed to be TVE’s main bet.

Needless to say, polarization on social media immediately jumped, contrasting the athlete and the values ​​he represents with the ni ni real that Pablo Motos took, who at that time was interviewing Victoria Federica, who was much more of a fairground attraction on Monday than the person who is number 5 in line to the throne behind her mother and brother. The young woman was celebrating her 24th birthday and the show worked, of course.

The net of Broncano’s program is much less mainstream than The Anthill, and, except for the surfer videos, everything was very boring. The thing about Victoria Federica is television history And, as much as it made us feel embarrassed to see the granddaughter of Juan Carlos I give those voices and make those faces, it is undeniable that Motos scores an indisputable point of having on set answering questions a much-criticized young woman, who had arrived from Zarzuela after eating with her mother and maternal grandfather on the same day that she had met The scandal of the foundation that the Emeritus has set up in Abu Dhabi so that their daughters (including the mother of the star of The Anthill) can easily inherit the fortune amassed by Don Juan Carlos, the same one that Felipe VI considered so contaminated as to renounce it publicly. Of course, Pablo Motos had no balls to enter the controversy and ask his guest about such “nonsense”. It’s a pity that we couldn’t attend a duel between Victoria Federica and Tamara Falcó. But we don’t lose hope. I mean. Let’s not forget that Victoria Federica is one of the stars of The Challenge, he great program The film, produced by Pablo Motos’ company and broadcast by Antena 3, is scheduled to premiere in January, so it is possible that we will see more visits from Victoria Federica and perhaps she will coincide with Isabel Preysler’s daughter: after all, the niece of Felipe VI and the Marchioness of Griñón are aristocrats.

Mocking motorcycles, nods to Catalan and threatening the Spanish flag

Meanwhile, Broncano made fun of Motos, made references to Catalan and threatened the Spanish flag, very jokingly, of course. The Revolt TVE, as we had anticipated, landed with references to Pedro Sánchez, jokes about Victoria Federica’s family, including her maternal affection, the monarchy and the successful interview with Aitor Francesena. David Broncano landed at RTVE after the monumental storm unleashed by his contract, at 14 million euros per year and protected in terms of audience for another 18 months. La Revuelta, if we except the interview, premiered with several major errors. Broncano said that he was not there to brainwash the Spanish people and someone told him that with his indoctrination in a while all the viewers were going to become “gays and unaccompanied minors.”

But the showman failed to get serious to explain that he will not receive 14 million euros (which is the total cost of the programme per campaign), he repeated that he has not signed with RTVE thanks to Pedro Sánchez and denied that the money that the programme costs has been derived from a ministry. But he does not explain who Mr. X is, with sufficient and necessary power to overthrow a president of RTVE and push through his signing. Nor did he explain how many of those 14 million are for him.

“The same shit” as La Resistencia

One of the star contributors of La Revuelta, Grison, used irony by showing a tattoo of Pedro Sánchez on his left pectoral and another of Pablo Motos on the right. He made fun of his rival by saying how closed his eyes are. Broncano used irreverence against the competition, threatened to destroy a Spanish flag, abused cuts and whistles to avoid puddles (that’s why he broadcasts a false live broadcast in contrast to Motos’s live broadcast) and admitted the obvious: that The Revolt es “the same shit” what The Resistance.

Another of the program’s VIP collaborators, Jorge Ponce, invited the royal family to the program. At that same time Victoria Federica She was torn into X when celebrating her 24th birthday in The Anthill 3.0, who dressed up to receive his niece in her first interview. Broncano, watchful and afraid of criticism, contrasted a girl who is not known to have any virtues greater than her blood with a five-time champion of adaptive surfing. The wink is populist but also an intelligent strategy: the new star of TVE tries to undermine the pressure of ratings and gives visibility to an example of overcoming (with which he performs a public service).

Jokes for all audiences

The Revolt It was subtitled in Catalan with irony (making jokes about Carlos Puigdemont or ‘Spain is stealing’), and had the collaboration of Lalachus (who contributed very little). The very unknown Basque sportsman showed his affability and showed his great life example that he has captured in the book. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. But the interview had too much footage and lacked rhythm. A lot. The images of this man in action were another matter.

Broncano, who smiled with forced imposture almost compulsively, pretending not to know the jokes that were happening, had a collaborator who has a non-standard body, brought a sportsman who suffers from a disability and made jokes about the monarchy, Pablo Motos or the controversy unleashed by his signing by TVE. His progressive winks aim to fish in the well of antipathy towards The Anthill 3.0, for its weekly current affairs discussion (which features anti-government barbs from such scarcely simple characters as Juan del Val or Tamara Falcó).

Questions about money and sex

Broncano continued, as we had already mentioned, with his classic questions to his guest about the amount of money he has in the bank and sexual relations in the last month. Francesena specified that he has not gone blind “from jerking off” and assured that “from the moment it dawns, he wants to.” The program took the plunge with a caption devised by Miguel Campos dedicated to the blind man: “And how do you know when it’s dawn?”

It is true that RTVE’s progressive halo vanished when Broncano ended, it began MasterChef Celebrity and they entered the screen Jordi Cruz, Pepe Rodriguez or Samantha Vallejo-Nagera, more similar to Pablo Motos and his mainstream format than to the marginal tone of Broncano and his rascally henchmen. At that time, El Hormiguero 3.0 was finishing its comedy talk show after 11 at night after having been protected, without advertising, like Sonsoles Ónega.

And Latre? Well, he did a beautiful number, paying homage to Welcome Mister Marshall de Berlanga to receive the president of Atlético de Madrid and two players. But few must have noticed.