I confess that at lunchtime I sometimes turn on La 1 to catch the end of the program hosted by Valencian journalist Javier Ruiz (52 years old), with his colleague and partner Sarah Santaolalla (27 years old). Ruiz's mannerisms are reminiscent of some broadcasters of yesteryear, like Alfredo Amestoy or Jesús Hermida; Santaolalla's are harder to categorize. In any case, the program makes it impossible not to recall formats from the late 1990s (everything comes back around) and content similar to that of the news programs during the Rajoy era, although the current ones, obviously, serve to construct a daily hagiography of Pedro Sánchez and his government. The younger members of the group may no longer remember that this style, where information and opinion merge in a viscous way, was introduced to Spain by the old José María Carrascal. Today it's simply part of the norm.

Spanish public television, La 1, has launched an interior design competition that celebrates shoddy work and precariousness as creative solutions. This couldn't be more fitting in a country where the housing crisis is a major social concern and a politically unresolved issue. Decomasters It's a reform program in the style of MasterChef But in a DIY version. Ten pairs of contestants, chosen to guarantee the absurdity, cooperate and compete to decorate the homes of anonymous volunteers. We hope these people receive compensation for the disasters the celebrities perpetrate in their homes, because the aesthetic result is enough to make you want to gouge your eyes out.

The Spanish newscasts opened, as is logical, with the appearance of Pedro Sánchez. In the Newscast La 1's broadcasters picked up on the president's willingness to refuse to throw in the towel and summarized his anti-corruption plan. They emphasized the government's satisfaction with the appearance, which reinforced a certain notion of a turning point to which the Socialists aspired. In fact, the report on the session in Congress frequently cited government and party sources, even in their metaphors. The journalist summarized: "The image established within the ranks of the PSOE has been very eloquent, they say, that the PP has sold the bear's skin before hunting it, but that the move has gone wrong for them because the bear is more alive than ever.". Allegories that brought an excessively enthusiastic vigor to reality. "The legislature seems to be holding up for the moment." and "Full house passed, government sources saywas the final conclusion of the news.

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.