"When I worked on 'Hotel Glam,' I studied humanities to balance my mind. It was the 'yin' and the 'yang.'"

BarcelonaIn Nia Sanjuán's X profile bio she says, "I'd like to be a better person, but I work in television." After more than twenty years creating, writing, and directing all kinds of television formats, she admits that her ironic bio might need an update. "I think television and the mainstream Now they are much more highly regarded, especially by the younger generations. When I was a student, I looked down on television because it was associated with people who worked frivolously and in a yellow way," explains Sanjuán, who confesses that he studied audiovisual communication because "he wanted to be Jean-Luc Godard," like all his classmates. Now things have changed. "Every time I've looked for an apartment, I've seen that I've seen that I've seen that. You mention key names, like Operation Triumph, people already find you funny," he says.

A good part of his professional career is linked to the production company Gestmusic, for which he has worked on programs as diverse as Traitors, Operation Triumph either I live singingThrough a friend, he learned that they were looking for someone for the night shift in the editorial office of a reality that was just beginning, Hotel Glam, which had such illustrious guests as Aramís Fuster. "I started working the night Pocholo [Martínez-Bordiu] broke his backpack. I came in at three in the morning and left at nine in the morning, and he spent the whole night nagging the woman about doing work with whatever day he could. He came back, each shift, when I finished the backpack." he recalls. He combined his work on the program with his humanities degree. "It was like balancing your head. It was the yin and the yang", he says. For a long time he hid where he worked from his classmates because he was embarrassed, but when he finally explained it to them he was surprised to find that everyone was watching the show.

He denies the myth that reality shows are all manipulated. "Reality will always improve any script you can think of for a reality. When I watch TV, I'm not very suspicious of the most outlandish things. You wouldn't write anything outlandish because no one would believe it," he reflects. This year, Sanjuán directed Traitors, a program that combines reality and strategy game, a format that ensures that it allows very little intervention because it is subject to audits. It is also behind Beta Project, the SX3 transmedia series.

Another of the notable projects on his resume isOperation Triumph: The Reunion, the special that brought together the first contestants of the reality show musical, David Bisbal included. "I hadn't even seen the first edition ofOT nor Rosa de España's performance at Eurovision because I was studying at the time and that day I had a meeting. To do The Reunion"I had to watch the entire program. It was a beautiful project, one of my favorites to do and that allowed me to connect with an entire generation," explains Sanjuán, who has also worked on seven editions of the music competition.

"For me, one of the great advantages of television is the constant change. I'm not comfortable with stable things and I'm lucky that every five months I change. I feel very fortunate to be able to work on content that engages people as diverse as the man who sells you bread or the woman who does your bikini line." She admits, however, that one of her fears about the industry is not being able to keep up with the constant renewal of trends, finding an insurmountable wall.