To start with, I would love for a newscast on any television channel to start like this one day: “Greetings and good afternoon. We begin our newscast with these images that show us the centre of the city of Madrid. There you have it: the citizens are strolling calmly through the centre of the city, with a smile on their faces and an optimistic tone. And… pay attention! Look how they are not fighting amongst themselves! To the right of your screens you can see how no one is brandishing a knife.” That’s what I said. I would like that. But I suspect that will never happen. We also live on illusions, although this was my first existential doubt.
Meanwhile, Telecinco’s nights have been left without a late-night show and are currently in intensive care. Who is keeping them alive? Well, it’s very easy. Neither celebrities nor renowned journalists, none of that. They are keeping them alive. anonymous people: the contestants of ‘Big Brother‘. Let me know when you see the image of a contestant reading a book. It will be for a ‘zapping’. Yes: anonymous people under the baton of Jorge Javier Vazquez and Ion Aramendia splendid discovery for television.
The second doubt is clear, because it is always very advantageous to give an opinion on accomplished facts, since in results-oriented readings you have the upper hand. But I wonder if it would have been a smartest maneuver send to the team of ‘Babylon Show’ to the ‘post-late’ slot, starting at 11 o’clock at night, instead of sending them to the lions with a knife in their mouth to fight Broncano and Motos. I’ll answer you: the answer is yes. Could it have been tried? Yes. And I won’t ask or answer other questions, because I don’t have any solution. The Babylonians would have been alone against no one or facing series from other channels that had already started, in the style of ‘Martian Chronicles’. Just to warn you that in this great television business there are good programs, but they are poorly programmed. Think about it.
I end with a phrase that he mentioned in the first program of the second season of “yourselves” (3Cat) a certain Jordi, grandmother Angeleta’s ‘nephew’: “We are a society that is not fair to grandparents. We should pay much more attention to them”. I stood up and applauded. We will find out when those of us who are not grandparents reach that wonderful status of grandparents.
