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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - La2]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Loles León's drama]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c6fab79f-99dc-44ea-a33b-1ec5745f3616_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>When a program starts with the presenter shouting at the viewers at home as if they couldn't hear, you already suspect that the show won't be very successful. That's what happened last Sunday with <em>Zero dramas</em>, the new <em>talk show</em> on La 2 hosted by Loles León. Since the premiere coincided with Women's Day and the format had a feminist focus, the initial panel already caused astonishment by discovering Santiago Segura sitting there. The actor and director of <em>Torrente</em> developed a philo-feminist discourse that forced you to waste large doses of indulgence to bear it. The other guests were content creator Marina Rivers, model Alba Carrillo, and actress Petra Martínez. The synergies of cronyism were evident. The program reproduced a easily recognizable pattern of formats that define themselves as feminist, but are designed and directed by men: the editorial label ends up being a victim of caricature and simplification. From guests chosen according to a criterion of representation by age to a discourse loaded with clichés and what they call humorous freshness. That is, a feminism that is limited to talking about what is traditionally associated with femininity and doing so in a fun tone. Aesthetic pressure, motherhood, menopause, or machismo were a deluge of originality and innovation. Loles León took the opportunity to deny the audience that she had undergone a vaginoplasty, as if the news had caused some kind of national tremor. Now that we know that her vagina is in its original state, we can continue with our lives more calmly. The script was structured in supposedly provocative questions, with interrogations as disconcerting as <em>¿Los machirulos son tan machos que necesitan someter a las mujeres?</em>”. They announced it as "the bombshell question" perhaps because it was so absurd that it made your head explode: they asked if machismo acted in a macho way. A reductionist and meaningless tautology that perhaps they thought worked as a television hook, but which evidenced the insubstantiality of the content. Fragments of videos from the <em>masclosfera</em> were included from the most unnecessary morbidity, and contests were proposed, such as guessing which beauty creams were authentic and which were fake, such as a balm made with whale semen. Loles León anticipated the advice column with a sexologist warning that it would be "<em>hot, hot</em>", as if we had to get in tune with the repertoire of "<em>oohs</em>" and "<em>aahs</em>" from the audience in the stands. They intended to break taboos on a subject on which we are already becoming desensitized. The worst, that puritanical preliminary of "<em>¿Es normal que...?</em>” where everyone expects to be told yes. <em>Zero dramas</em> was a rushed and terribly edited format. Structurally fragile, with a chaotic approach, very superficial, full of clichés and stereotypes. One drama was indeed present: that of current television, more based on inertia and insubstantiality than on the duty to be interesting.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mònica Planas Callol]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:49:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Zero drama]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA["Am I the most approachable priest in Catalonia? No. But I'm the one who appears closest."]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c841438c-a62d-4889-a506-284b9e85c77f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>It's the most understated ratings leader on television. Two Sundays ago, the mass he broadcasts on La 2 Cat garnered a 15.4% audience share, a figure many media stars would envy. Father Carles Cahuana has been officiating this service for 12 years, in a program he launched in 1982, making it the longest-running show on Catalan-language television. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Àlex Gutiérrez]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:00:33 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Carles Cahuana: "Am I the most approachable priest in Catalonia? No. But I'm the one who appears closest."]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Priest in charge of 'The Mass' broadcast by RTVE in Catalonia]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gemma Nierga delves into raising children, now in Spanish]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/media/gemma-nierga-delves-into-raising-children-now-in-spanish_1_5568100.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/766123db-4f51-4a90-8b20-faf19f6ec299_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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. <em>We will do what we can</em>, call <em>We do what we can</em>A 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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordi Feijoo]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:14:24 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Gemma Nierga talking with Elena Furiase and Jorge Garbajosa on 'Se hace lo que se puede']]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Channel 2 premieres this weekend the Spanish version of the show that the journalist does on the Catalan circuit, 'We'll do what we can']]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[RTVE cancels 'Culturas 2' and is preparing a new cultural magazine]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/9e826edd-1fe0-4ff8-b130-8c7c809c7a56_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p><em>Cultures 2,</em> Presented by Tània Sarrias on La 2, the program will disappear from the schedule on November 27. Three years after its premiere, RTVE has decided not to renew the format. The cancellation comes alongside RTVE's announcement of a "new cultural magazine" that will premiere in January 2026 to strengthen La 2's cultural offerings. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordi Feijoo]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:10:09 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Tania Sarrias on the program 'Culture 2']]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The program presented by Tània Sarrias on La 2 premiered in October 2022]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[When the logical turns out to be unusual]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/9e1f2d44-cca4-4251-89e2-504af8c7c2a2_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>On Wednesdays, at ten o'clock at night, La 2 broadcasts again <em>First look</em>, a documentary series in which Lara Siscar interviews journalists to discuss their careers and reflect on the profession. The effectiveness of each episode depends, above all, on the interest aroused by the protagonist. On the RTVE Play platform, some episodes arouse curiosity and others that you don't even bother to start. The second season kicked off with a double broadcast. The episode dedicated to Silvia Intxaurrondo is well worth a look. Beyond learning about the professional career of the best political interviewer currently on the television scene, the program allows you to discover the behind-the-scenes of political pressure, electoral interviews, and the effects they have on the results. Intxaurrondo interviewed Alberto Núñez Feijóo during the campaign for the 2023 general elections. That broadcast on La 1 had a stellar moment that went viral and caused a lot of tension in multiple offices, both at public television and at the headquarters of the Popular Party. When the journalist asked him about pensions, Feijóo asserted that his party was the only one that had never stopped revaluing them with the CPI, the exact opposite of what the PSOE had done. Intxaurrondo interrupted him: "<em>That's not correct, Mr. Feijóo.</em>", and corrected the information based on the verified documentation she had available. It was a very tense moment, because the politician urged her to review the data and demanded that she correct it. But he was the one who ended up apologizing on social media and admitting the error. Since then, Intxaurrondo has been the victim of campaigns discrediting her as a journalist. <em>First look</em> It reveals to us what happened around this circumstance beyond the screen.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mònica Planas Callol]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:09:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The program 'First Look' on La2.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bad tongues, worse excuses]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/630b4873-ed23-4b65-bf7b-596fb75918c2_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x567y335.jpg" /></p><p>Wednesday afternoon began <em>Bad tongues,</em> one of the big premieres of the season on Spanish public television.<em> </em>It premiered simultaneously in<em> </em>La 1 and La 2, to underline the importance of the commitment. Presented by Jesús Cintora, it is a current affairs format, lasting more than two hours, halfway between a talk show and a <em>panel show</em>, which combines an incisive look at the day's news with reporting and humor. Cintora opened the program by thanking his mother, almost as if he were collecting an award, delighted to have met himself. The host is guilty of a fearless vanity, as if he were the only one who dares to call a spade a spade. He indulges himself in a somewhat over-the-top journalistic arrogance.<em>Not everyone is happy that we are here.</em>", he regretted. I denounced that they had just started and that the commission had been cancelled, to the social experts, and that the extreme right had reprimanded a reporter from the program. A strategy that was supposed to serve to sell the informative value.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mònica Planas Callol]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:24:19 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Jesús Cintora in a promotional image for 'Malas Lenguas' on La2.]]></media:title>
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