Cristina Garmendia (Sant Sebastià, 1962), who was minister of Science during the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is leaving the presidency of Mediaset by her own decision. In a statement released by the communication group, she assures that she has made the decision after a period of reflection and with the intention of starting a new professional stage focused on "innovation and positive impact on Spain's economy and society".

In current affairs programs, news coverage of disasters no longer has anything to do with informing the public. Its purpose is the systematic exploitation of the suffering of people in extremely vulnerable situations. We saw another example of this on Tuesday in Just the right time Joaquín Prat Jr.'s interview on Telecinco with the uncle of a six-year-old girl who had lost her parents and twelve-year-old brother in the Adamuz train crash revealed that he only wanted to exploit the poor man's distress. They even used him to create suspense during commercial breaks and then rubbed his family's tragedy in with sensationalist, slapstick, and saccharine tactics.

After almost three decades working at Mediaset, the corporation has decided to dismiss Alessandro Lecquio, who will no longer be on the program he currently collaborates on. Let's see, from Ana Rosa Quintana's production company, Unicornio Contento. In October, his ex-partner Antonia Dell'Atte gave an interview to The Country in which she denounced how she suffered physical abuse at the hands of the Telecinco collaborator in the late 1980s. These statements were no secret: in the early 2000s, Lecquio had sued Antonia for alleged slander and for labeling him an abuser on television, but she has not been afraid to repeat these words on several occasions.

The Telecinco presenter has been given a new face, literally. Last week, in Survivor All Stars, tried to hide his face. He wore sunglasses, and the production always showed him in a wide shot so that the radical cosmetic surgery he had undergone couldn't be seen. This week, he connected with his network colleague Joaquín Prat by covering his face with a scarf, creating even more mystery around his image. And finally, when the show started Jorge's Diary, we discovered, with amazement, the results of his complete facelift and all kinds of complementary interventions.Hello everyone, I'm Jorge Javier, even if it doesn't seem like it.His appearance was grotesque. He had lost all his natural facial features and expressiveness. The general swelling of his face gave him a rigid expression; he even seemed to have difficulty moving his mouth. He was struggling to consolidate his witness program despite his initial lack of confidence. In reality, it was an excuse to justify what he really wanted: "Remember something and let it stick in your brain: programs, like faces, need time to settle.It remains to be seen how the facial flesh settles, but right now it's as if the presenter's transformation were part of the show itself, in a fascinating mix of horror and morbidity. Many presenters and contributors undergo constant treatments and interventions to survive in the television medium, making the surgical manipulation of their faces obvious. Cameras understand that surgery is necessary; over time, new surgeries are required to adapt to the new standards. correct The physique.

The strategy of spite is one of the most useful for bringing corruption to the surface in the media, and Telecinco has its hand broken. Mayte Zaldívar has been the leading figure since she went on air live in 2004, explaining how her ex-husband, Julián Muñoz, kept garbage bags full of bundles of bills at home. Resentful of the cuckolding the mayor of Marbella had put on her with Isabel Pantoja, she raised the hue and cry in one of the most high-profile cases of embezzlement of public funds and urban planning malfeasance in Spain. Two years later, Cachuli was imprisoned. On Monday, it was the turn of José Luis Ábalos's ex-wife, who opened her mouth, fed up with the deception and harassment of her former husband. The former Minister of Transport unsuccessfully tried to stop the broadcast through legal proceedings. Carolina Perles told a sordid and terrifying story of commissions, prostitutes, Viagra, parties, and drugs to supplement the precarious management of her portfolio as minister.

With all the generalist channels already with one foot in the summer programming, it is time to take stock of a season that has shown that television can still generate debate, as seen with the brawl between The anthill and The revoltDespite the differences in audiences between Spain and Catalonia as a whole, there's one common thread: Telecinco's collapse is a fact.

Survivors, he reality Telecinco, is facing the final stretch of the competition and, therefore, the narrative focuses even more on the contestants' bodies. A good part of the spectacle now consists of comparing and evaluating their nakedness at the beginning of the broadcasts and how it is in the last ones. Before and after images have been spread on social networks and television platforms.

The new season ofCalleja Universe on Telecinco premiered yesterday, and its first episode had a clear protagonist: Barcelona native Sandra Barneda. The Telecinco presenter had a sincere conversation with Jesús Calleja during his trip to Nepal. And although Barneda assured that she was having a good time before starting the program, a "tragedy" had changed everything: "Twenty days after your call, my nephew Neo died at the age of 20."

Once the phenomenon of The island of temptations, Telecinco starts Survivors after a prudent pause. The new reality It's exactly the same as always, one déjà vu approaches and actions, but this time it incorporates the viral phenomenon of the program of couples who cheat on each other to earn money. Montoya, internationally famous for his extreme desperation, dismayed by jealousy, has traveled to Honduras to starve in Cayo Cochinos. The premiere of Survivors It is an opportunity to analyze the roles of the program, divided between gods, demigods and mortals, and to delve into the mechanisms of the spectacle in the tragedy of resistance.

On Tuesday afternoon, Telecinco broadcast live the trip of Jesús Calleja to space with the program New Shepard. The channel organized a special presented by María Casado and the head of news Carlos Franganillo, who seemed not very enthusiastic about his expedition. Among the guests, they were accompanied by Pedro Duque, the former minister and astronaut who seemed to be there more out of obligation than enthusiasm. The broadcast was added to the countdown of the Blue Origin base in western Texas. The official signal of the broadcast was limited to a small box in a corner of the screen, so that the feeling of presence before the great event was lost. The production gave off a lack of interest in Calleja's feat. As if that were not enough, Telecinco was making announcements at the moment when the crew members boarded the space capsule and when they returned, they limited themselves to showing it in a fleeting and very small way, instead of creating expectations and turning it into a heroic moment. Connections with friends and family prevented an atmosphere of excitement that, for their part, no one seemed very willing to externalize.

Since his arrival as director of Mediaset in January, Alberto Carullo has made significant changes at Telecinco. One of the most notable has been Ana Rosa Quintana's return in the mornings and, consequently, the restructuring of the afternoon programming. Starting next Monday, the schedule will be mixed up: the programs do not change – they continue Afternoon, Jorge's diary and Chain reaction– but the time slots in which they will be broadcast are changed in order to increase the audience.

Since a scene from the movie went viral worldwide last week, The island of temptations With Montoya running desperately, multiple absurd arguments have appeared to justify this format.