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.

"Due to excessive workload and medical advice, Andreu Buenafuente is forced to take a temporary break from his professional schedule to rest and recover." With this brief statement, the production company El Terrat announced that, until further notice, the Catalan comedian is leaving the two programs he was producing.Future imperfect on La 1 and Nobody knows anything on Cadena SER radio – and also the performances of the play The Tenorivo which is being performed at the Balañà Theatre in Barcelona. "I need to stop for a bit to recover and come back with the energy that everything I do deserves," Buenafuente declared. "Thank you for your understanding, support, and affection."

Andreu Buenafuente's signing with RTVE left TV3 without the show YourselvesBut the Catalan public broadcaster hoped to maintain the comedian's presence in the now-traditional year-end monologue he has been performing since 2022. That won't be the case. La 1 has Buenafuente and actress Sílvia Abril – a couple – to present the New Year's Eve countdown, so TV3 has had to find an alternative plan, and the chosen replacement is Quim Masferrer, as ARA has exclusively learned.

Andreu Buenafuente (Reus, 1965) is experiencing a sweet moment personally –with his partner, Sílvia Abril, and a 12-year-old daughter, Joana– and also professionally, with the Nobody knows anything on the radio with Berto Romero, and with Imperfect future, his weekly show on Spanish Television. He just turned 60 and is already thirty years into a media career that has made him one of the most popular, influential, and beloved figures in Catalonia, something he especially appreciated when he returned to live in Barcelona in 2022, after six years in Madrid.

Since its inception, ARA was born with the idea of community deeply rooted in its values. This is evident from the editorial staff to the many activities held to connect with everyone who shares the same vision of the country, journalism, and the world the newspaper offers. Already fifteen years old, the Antigua Fábrica Damm was the setting this Wednesday for an event that combined journalism, humor, stories, and, above all, the connection between those who write and those who read.

Oriol Grau (Barcelona, ​​1963) embarks, for the first time at the age of 61, on a theatrical monologue. And he does so to answer the big question that the public will have been asking for years: what happened to him that, having achieved popularity, made him leave television and disappear from the media landscape? With more fiction and comedy than the premise suggests, Mom, the devil and me It is a journey through the actor's career that can be seen from May 16 to June 1 at the Sala Trono in Tarragona, and later in other venues.

Thursday night, after The revolt, Andreu Buenafuente premiered his program on La 1. The comedian has based his new Imperfect future at what he does best. A long monologue in which he reveals his disenchanted and mischievous view of the world. Occasionally, some collaborators join in, and the intervention of its director, David Martos, allows for some reflection on the program itself and its protagonist. The first edition lived up to its title. It was imperfect due to the typical canned premiere syndrome. It was recorded so far in advance that the content was incredibly outdated. The viewer notices this immediately because the intensity with which some current affairs are discussed doesn't correspond to the audience's existing perspective. And this is even more pronounced when current events are particularly turbulent. Buenafuente spoke of the blackout as if it had just happened; there were references to Barça's Copa del Rey final after the Champions League semifinal defeat and the Clásico. But the most blatant obsolescence was in the Vatican issues. The comedian was joking about the placement of the chimney on the roof of the basilica when the workers must have already been dismantling it because the white smoke had appeared hours earlier. The whole joke about the conclave was no longer funny because the audience, after such an intense afternoon of television, was already settled into another newscast. The new pope had already been chosen, and the program was talking about the electoral process. Buenafuente wins live. And if he can't do it live, he should record that same day. It doesn't make sense to do an hour-long program that features humor about current events and that has such a huge gap with reality.

The last piece of La 1's renovation has already been placed: Andreu Buenafuente premieres his new program on RTVE this Thursday, Imperfect future, a weekly comedy show that will air right after The revolt, by David Broncano, a show co-produced by the Reus native's production company, El Terrat. In this way, RTVE is betting on a compact comedy block one night a week, a strategy it has already implemented previously by occasionally pairing Broncano's show with the late show by Marc Giró.

Finally, the signing of Andreu Buenafuente by TVE is confirmed, as it was rumored so far this year. This Tuesday, the president of RTVE, José Pablo López, announced through X that the Reus native will be one of the stars of the network's schedule and that his program will be called Imperfect future. Apart from this new project, López also recalled that some of the upcoming releases will be The TV family, return of part of the team of Save me, and Bad tongues, Jesús Cintora's daily current affairs program for La 2.