These days it’s time to look back at the last twelve months, and reflect on all the good things that television has offered us throughout 2023. The consolidation of the Benidorm Fest, the success of the come back of The Summer Grand Prixthe good health of The voice y Your face is familiar to me after years in broadcast, and so on, a long etcetera.
There has also been setbacks, mistakes and wear and tear. Joaquín Sánchez has gone from being a magnet for audiences to tiring the public of The noob. The brand Big Brother is no longer infallible on Telecinco as before, and it will end in 2023 and we will not have been able to enjoy the third season of HITthe one that began to be announced in February as an upcoming premiere.
However, the highlight of this year that is already passing us, at least, for the writer here, is that We have said goodbye to two spaces that wrote their names with golden letters in the history of television in our country, and which, coincidentally, had an imperative verb in their title. We talk about Tell me how it happened and of Save me. Spaces that, in a way, have left their followers orphaned, despite the fact that their audiences had decreased after seasons and seasons on air.
[Sandra Barneda habla sobre las “críticas injustas” que vivió cuando ‘Así es la vida’ sustituyó a ‘Sálvame’]
The series produced by Ganga and the La Fábrica de la Tele show have, curiously, something in common. And both were awarded by the jury of the Iris Critics Award 2019, made up of a representation of critics, journalists and television commentators in various media. The prize was awarded to both spaces because “Given the rise of new television formulas, there have been innovative formats in fiction and entertainment of open television that They have changed the television language in our country and they have been able to accompany viewers as part of their family, portraying Spanish society without prejudice for more than a decade.”
And, indeed, they have been productions that, like few others, have made those who were at home feel like they were part of the event, creating a mix of reality and fiction. It’s more, When Herminia passed away in the 2023 season, it was like saying goodbye to our most beloved grandmother., the one that we could only see through the small screen. It was sad despite being fully aware that everything is a story, a fiction.
The one who did die in real life was Mila Ximénez, in the increasingly distant month of June 2021, and, mutatis mutandis, with her we had a sensation similar to that of Herminia’s death. Because Mila was a real person, but those of us who didn’t know her other than through the small screen saw in her a character, an actress, a being who, if they don’t exist, is because they hadn’t invented them yet.
Continuing with the family parallelism, Mila was that charming aunt with character, the one who is capable of setting up a candle on Christmas Eve. if things don’t go as she expects, or if they give her an opinion she didn’t ask for. But she also secretly catches you to ask you how you are doing, she wishes you the best, and she makes it clear to you that behind her agitated image there is someone very special.
His gap in Sálvame was very big, his absence was noticeable, which was very different from when he went on vacation for a few weeks, or when he joined in to participate in a reality show. His gap was impossible to fill, there was no scriptwriter in the world who could justify such an exit..
In December 2020, Paz Padilla and Jorge Javier Vázquez got into an argument in Sálvame. The Andalusian woman told her partner that “you know that everything that goes up, comes down,” and that “when you go up, say hello, they will be the same ones you see when you go down.” “I always say that with the years we’ve been here giving the noise, the most normal thing is for them to call us and tell us: ‘Don’t come again.’ And we will also have to say: ‘Thank you for having put up with us for so many years. In other words, we have to be prepared for everything,” Paz predicted, for her part.
A Save methat call to tell them not to come anymore was made in a rather ugly and abrupt way. In May, a leak to El Mundo announced its cancellation, saying that with its farewell the end of trash TV would come. On June 23, coinciding with the date of Mila’s death, the program said goodbye with a killing, after 14 years on the air and a multitude of spin-offs along the way, such as The Last Supper, Sálvame Mediafest o Sálvame’s weddings.
In the case of Tell me how it happenedit had been evident for a couple of years that its actors were waiting for its end like May water. María Galiana acknowledged this to Jordi Évole, and Imanol Arias went so far as to state in 2022 that “it is unbearable to be on that chain, I hope not to return to anything public in a long time.” After season 22, it was learned that there was no longer any intention to renew it on the part of RTVE, and after considering a closing TV-movie, they opted for a shorter series than usual, with an episode dedicated to each main character.
And so, this 2023 Two very important chapters have been closed in the history of our television, a medium that has less and less patience with its series and programs. We will no longer be able to ask, please, that Jorge Javier save us like a shipwrecked man. Nor do Herminia tell us how it happened. What there is no doubt about is that in the long run (22 years in the case of Tell me14 con Save me) yes we knew happiness.
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2023-12-31 00:31:26
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