Andreu Buenafuente and Sílvia Abril will not be presenting after all. The New Year's Eve countdown on RTVEThe news comes after the Catalan comic I would take sick leave due to work-related stress. Three weeks ago. And this, in fact, has been the trigger for everything. "This is a bit slow; if we want to do it right, it will take a little more time," the Catalan comedian says in a video statement published this morning by RTVE on its X profile. "It won't be possible to broadcast the New Year's Eve countdown," he adds. For the moment, RTVE has not announced who will replace the duo for the New Year's Eve broadcast, which is two and a half weeks away. Buenafuente justifies his decision by saying he doesn't want to "speed up" his recovery: "I don't see anything good in forcing myself to do a job one day. You have to come back healthy and be on the right track, with the serenity to get back to doing what I love," he says. He admits that "it's not easy" to stop a running "machine" like the show's to ring in the new year, but insists that he is still not well and appreciates the understanding he says he has received from RTVE.

Jordi Basté's new program on La 2 Cat, Sequence planThe new program doesn't yet have a premiere date, but it does have its first guest: Iñaki Urdangarin. The former husband of Princess Cristina and former FC Barcelona handball player gives the interview after being released from prison, where he served time for the Nóos case. This is the first time Urdangarin has given a personal interview, away from the sports or institutional spotlight. Over 50 minutes, host Basté will attempt to create an unfiltered portrait of the former son-in-law of the King Emeritus. The goal is to capture real, spontaneous, and natural moments that allow viewers to get to know the guest as he is in his daily life. The program also features appearances by friends, family, and associates who will help to build broader and more human accounts of the interviewees.

A few days ago I woke up to some sad news: Spanish Radio and Television was cancelling the program Cultures 2which had been broadcast on La 2 for three years and which Tania Sarrias had presented with proven competence for the last two. A stimulating program with a feminist perspective that in its first episode declared its desire to be "the house of culture," and in which the Andalusian poet Aurora Luque christened culture as "Fertilizing ideas and harvesting beauty"

Parenting can be complicated, and sometimes parents may feel they lack the tools to manage and guide their children. The fact that this topic has evolved doesn't mean raising children is more complicated than before. Channel 2 premieres the Catalan version of [the series/show] this weekend. We will do what we can, call We do what we canA new program about raising children. It will be presented by journalist and television and radio presenter Gemma Nierga, who will collaborate with and share the opinions of well-known personalities, experts, and above all, the young stars of the show: boys and girls.

RTVE's sensationalist approach has been cemented with three current affairs programs, each worse than the last, that turn the news into melodrama and debate into a festival of tension. Morning, noon, and night, La 1 offers its audience a hefty dose of this. Morning Shows 360with Adela González and Javier RuizHe confuses analysis with removing entrails. At night, malicious tongues, by Jesús Cintora, It's a tense and biased ideological show. And in the afternoon it's the turn of the grotesque. Straight to the pointHosted by Marta Flich and Gonzalo Miró. The latter has risen in just a few months from panelist to presenter without him being entirely clear on what the difference should be.

This week, RTVE has released a short documentary film entitled At ground level about the so-called early exhumations of Franco-era graves. The broadcast was accompanied by a special moderated by Xabier Fortes. Both programs can be found on the RTVE Play platform.

One of the failed premieres of the new channel La 2 Cat is the Mamarazzis Pop&Cor, the show hosted by Laura Fa and Lorena Vázquez. A low-key broadcast in which the two gossip columnists seem overwhelmed by the format. Mamarazzis Pop&Cor It conveys a television amateurism that is painful, because spontaneity is one thing, and lack of control is another. That the new Catalan-language channel considers the program representative of its editorial line is perplexing. Justifying it on public television is difficult enough, but from this perspective, where there doesn't even seem to be an editorial line, it's even more difficult.

A quiz show based on guessing exact measurements couldn't predict that its existence would be quantified in just two episodes. RTVE has decided to cancel the show. How much, how much, how much, hosted by Eva Soriano and Aníbal Gómez, faced with ratings that fell short of expectations. The 5.6% audience share obtained this week for a show that was supposed to lead Saturday nights has led to the suspension of filming after only two attempts. Its debut was promising, with a 10.6% audience share. share, but it must be taken into account that at that time it benefited from being shown immediately after a Spanish national football team match that reached 32% and, therefore, lost a good portion of viewers due to drag.

This week saw the launch of La 2 Cat, RTVE's Catalan-language channel, which is still operating at half speed and will gradually incorporate programs. It remains to be seen whether it will be able to compete with TV3 in the process, especially considering the two clearly opposing editorial lines. While 3 Cat remains obsessed with providing entertainment that captures young audiences, with erratic results, La 2 Cat seems to be betting on a public service based on dissemination, with absolutely conventional content and such a low budget that creative possibilities are very limited. Furthermore, the deficiencies in lighting and sound systems make the overall result even more precarious.

On Monday night, La 1 started the season with the interview with Pedro Sánchez after the Newscast 2. The broadcast also marked the return of journalist Pepa Bueno to public television to host the newscast. Her debut was splendid.

A dance of names and faces on Televisión Española's news programs. The public broadcaster has renewed most of its news anchors for the new season, with the aim of continuing to improve audience figures that have recently been favorable enough to achieve their best season in the last five years. While it was known that Pepa Bueno had been brought back from the company,The Country After his dismissal for leading Telediario 2, it has now been learned that there will also be changes this weekend and that Marc Sala –until now, in The time of La 1– and Lourdes Maldonado –RNE's afternoon host– will be the presenter, replacing Lara Siscar and Igor Gómez.

The world is turning and she's returning to El Born, or, in the case of Pepa Bueno, to RTVE. The public corporation has signed her to host the evening edition of 'Telediario' starting in September, which will mark the journalist's return to the company that gave her her first opportunity, almost forty years ago. Bueno was dismissed as director of the program in early June.The Country, within the framework of the internal shake-up that the Prisa group is experiencing, ordered by the president of the group, Joseph Oughourlian, and which has resulted in the departure of several profiles considered close to the Moncloa.

RTVE's Catalan-language channel project is scheduled to begin operations on September 11, and the agency is rushing to finalize its launch schedule in the coming months. As those responsible for this new window explained, initially, half of the content will still be in Spanish, pending new productions that will gradually be incorporated into an offering that aims to have programming entirely in Catalan by 2027, as agreed by the PSOE and Junts.

On Thursday, the president of RTVE, José Pablo López, appeared before the control committee of Congress and gave explanations for the resounding failure of The TV familyHis intervention was deplorable. He began by citing Ramón García, the presenter who dons his cape to ring in the New Year's Eve bells, as a reference. Here you can already see what his standards are. He mentioned a quote of his in which he asserted that 87% of television premieres don't work. López, as an expert, preferred to refer to specialized magazines that reduced the number of programs to 60 or 70%.that do not end up being broadcast on television". He said this to normalize the absurdity of signing Belén Esteban, María Patiño, Kiko Matamoros and company for the afternoon shows on public television. The executive justified himself: "What can I tell you about 'The Family on TV'? Well, we tried it, and it didn't work. And I take professional responsibility for both. For having tried it, and for it not working.". And then, he accentuated the drama by continuing: "But above all, I take professional responsibility for having tried, because the problem is that there are many people interested in us not trying, and they don't come here to try and get it right.". López, or perhaps we should call him Superlópez, given his pretensions as a glue hero, was praising the feat of having tried, as if this had been a life-or-death battle. The president of RTVE hasn't attempted anything. He has simply imported into the public sector what he copied from the Oblid programs already on Telecinco. The format was more than proven, and everyone had known the result for years. The TV family It's not a failed proposal; it was a tired and inappropriate formula for La 1. López relied on the audience results of more successful formats, demonstrating a television foundation based strictly on numbers, not content, nor on social responsibility or the duty of public office. He took on some criticism, but not all: "What I do not accept is the cultural supremacy that some have tried to impose on public television.And herein lies the philosophy of this so-called expert. He believes that rejecting trash TV is supremacist. The enlightened paternalism of these executives reveals their limitations and demonstrates their ignorance of what public media represents. Because they confuse criteria, rigor, and, of course, cultural demands with cultural demands.

A month and a half. This is how long it lasted. The TV family on La 1. The program, which landed on public television as a kind of resurrection of the Save me Telecinco's program, was unable to cope with the loss of audiences, and tomorrow will be its last program, according to the show's presenters. Since its premiere on May 5, viewership figures have continued to decline, despite the fact that RTVE management has tried various methods to save its numbers, even resorting to trickery, such as extending the program a few minutes to attract people who connected to the channel to watch the serials. But it was in vain: last week it dropped to 5.6% share which left it one tenth below La2, a channel with a much smaller viewer base. And this Monday a new movement was tried in the schedule, moving it to the last hour, also without success: a historical low with a 4.3% share and only 309,000 viewers in the whole State.

"When I'm professionally convinced that the program has reached its limit, I'll withdraw it. But I don't have that conviction today." These were the words of RTVE President José Pablo López, speaking before the Joint Committee on May 29, referring to the program. The TV familyThe next day, however, the network announced that it was implementing a severe blow: the show was losing its entire second half, the one that followed the two soap operas it served as a container for. A week later, it became clear that this measure had not stemmed the flow and that the show, which now only lasts an hour and ten minutes, is a liability for the network.

The approaches to entertainment and infoshow are getting out of hand on La 1. On Wednesday, a new grotesque episode unfitting of public television took place. This time it was on the program Morning 360, a current affairs magazine hosted by Javier Ruiz and Adela González. The program exploits the most sordid events in Spain. The vast majority of stories take advantage of people's misery. There is no social perspective, which would be expected. The key is in the drama. And in making political issues tense.

On Tuesday, on La 1, The revolt It began as usual. David Broncano appeared on stage and the audience spurred him on with shouts and comments. The presenter, after playing the timpani, laughed at the contributions of the most broke: ""Alcoholic," one of them tells me! It's just that... the kind of insult..."The show, as always, was sensitive to social issues. The crew joked about the recording time. They revealed it was a Saturday morning, because that was when their guest, singer Ed Sheeran, was able to be on."Five hours ago I was at home getting laid!", Broncano pointed out. In post-production, however, they added a whistle to cover up the rudeness. They used the same method to cover up a few"bitch" from his colleagues.

The last Sunday of every month, La 1 broadcasts RTVE Responds, the program directed and presented by the public broadcaster's viewer advocate, Rosa Maria Molló. She is one of the network's most iconic and historic journalists, both for her time at the Sant Cugat headquarters, with programs such as Giravolt, as well as a prestigious career in news services, taking on correspondent positions in New York, Beijing and the Middle East.