On Wednesday night, A beastly date moved from the digital platform to television as a preview of the summer programming. The program, hosted by Candela Figueras, promotes dog adoption. It was the thirteenth most-watched program in Catalonia that day, with an audience of 179,000 viewers and a 10.7% share. It's nothing to write home about, but it's a much more worthy and effective result than formats that have cost the network much more money.
A beastly date is the feel good tv that works on a family level. These are programs in which, beyond a slight suspense about how the stories will end, the goal is to emotionally comfort the viewer, and you know that everything will be fine. The only thing it requires from the viewer is a certain empathy for dogs that not everyone has.
The format is designed as a dating show An animal version, where potential adoptive families meet four dogs and must ultimately choose one to live with. The lucky one is chosen after a deliberation. Each program intertwines the experiences of two families. The presenter acts as a mediator between the shelter and the adopters, and finally, an expert who educates on ethology explains the challenges and care of this new relationship.
A beastly date It seeks to elicit emotional identification from the viewer and soften their hearts with the particularities of dogs desperately longing for a home. They also promote the work of animal shelters. With the end credits, they announce the dogs that are pending adoption in case any viewer has fallen in love with one of the beasts featured. The program sells the dream of transformation. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the animal's new owners experience a vital improvement thanks to living with the beast. The dog's behavior also evolves with greater expressions of affection, joy, and well-being. Everyone wins. All told, a certain positive bias is intuited: despite warnings about illnesses and precautions, they don't dwell too much on the problems and difficulties precisely to promote this encouraging message of adoption. It has a clear aspirational component and exudes a subliminal message of pure goodness. All the program's participants seem anointed with the gift of good-naturedness, generosity, altruism, exemplary conduct, humanity, moral integrity, and compassion. You can't ask for more. Going through the program makes you the best person in the world. Some countries and cities already have more dog populations than children, and more families with pets than with children. However, it's not clear that this is indicative of a better world.
