The second wave of covid-19 hits even Argentine television, affected since the fateful 2020 in terms of production, especially fiction.
The protocols, the prevention measures, the entry and exit of personnel in the recordings, the thin advertising cake and the rating increasingly turned towards the platforms of streaming they keep the small air screen on alert, without outstanding news and with repeated cycles on the state channel. Meanwhile, very slowly, fiction takes shape again in the big production companies.
The two main contenders on the national screen, ElTrece and Telefe, continue to bet on reality television at all hours, with the chimento show from morning to afternoon, among famous seamstresses, aspiring chefs, cans of soap operas, interactive entertainment of proven formats that hook with the evening news and prime time reality shows plus the must-see, indulgent Turkish novels!
Until now, and almost without interval since the first edition in 2020, “Masterchef Celebrity II” gives Telefe around 20 rating points every night.
That bastion of 10:30 p.m. is the one that will come to fight, from tomorrow -an hour and a half before- ShowMatch back, from the hand of Marcelo tinelli to ElTrece. But very soon Telefe will redouble the bet with another reality show, La Voz Argentina 2021, in search of Tinelli’s viewers. The battle for the rating is declared this month, although until now the winner has been, for years, the channel of the balls.
What zapping holds and what comes in fiction
– What happens on open TV
– There is “Masterchef Celebrity” for a while: it is confirmed that Telefe wants a third part of the culinary cycle, as announced by Santiago del Moro on his radio program.
– “El club de las divorciadas”: tomorrow, at 4.30 pm, on the ElTrece screen, Laurita Fernández will make her debut in front of this proposal, produced by KZA Entertainment Argentina. It will have two specialists in each broadcast, such as the sexologist Alessandra Rampolla and the psychologist Gabriel Cartañá, who will advise the participants in the difficult moment of leaving a marriage behind.
– Tomorrow comes “ShowMatch-La Academia”: at the new 9:00 p.m., with the leadership of Marcelo Tinelli, the celebrities will face challenges in front of the jury that will comprise Ángel de Brito, Pampita, Jimena Barón and Hernán Piquín. It will be broadcast from Monday to Thursday on the ElTrece screen and a program dedicated to humor will be broadcast on Fridays. It is a production of the channel and LaFlia Contenidos.
– “La Voz Argentina” returns: with a release date that is being postponed, although Telefe assures that it will be this month, the reality show of talents will be hosted by Marley. Ricardo Montaner, Soledad Pastorutti, Lali Espósito, and Mau and Ricky Montaner will be the coaches who will choose the participants they like the most to be part of their teams. Scheduled for 2020, this production was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
– It’s “Deal done”: on Sundays, at 9 p.m., hosted by Lizy Tagliani, with the humor of Roberto Moldavsky, Telefe re-released an international entertainment format that reached peaks of 20 rating points in its last broadcast, with which the signal won the day and by far.
– Soon, “Little Victory”: one of the few fictions that finished the recordings of its second season is “Little Victory” (ViacomCBS-Telefe). Written and directed by Juan Taratuto, it will be called “Little Victories” in the plural. There will be 10 episodes of half an hour each that will begin five years after the events of the first season. Julieta Díaz, Mariana Genesio and Natalie Pérez return from the original cast, but not Inés Estévez. The series will also be available on Amazon Prime Video.
– “El marginal”: the fourth and fifth seasons of the series produced by Underground and Telemundo Global Studios are being recorded simultaneously, under the direction of Alejandro Ciancio and Sebastián Ortega as showrunner. There is no set date for the premiere, but Public TV broadcasts spots and the Netflix platform released a video. Juan Minujín, Nicolás Furtado, Claudio Rissi and Gerardo Romano return to the cast; while among the new ones Julieta Zylberberg and Rodolfo Ranni are confirmed.
– “The first of us”: Viacom CBS-Telefe has started recording “The first of us”, a unit starring Benjamín Vicuña, Paola Krum, Luciano Castro, Jorgelina Aruzzi, Damián de Santo and Mercedes Funes (photo). Drama with comedy overtones, it narrates the experiences of a group of friends whose life and relationship change when they find out that Santiago, one of them, suffers from a terminal illness. The new dramatic comedy will mark the return of local fiction to prime time on Telefe and will be incorporated into the portfolio of exclusive content on the Paramount + streaming platform.
– “La 15/18”: Pol-ka started recording this production, which will be seen on ElTrece. It will star Agustina Cherri, Gonzalo Heredia and Esteban Lamothe, with a great cast, and the plot will focus on a love triangle and marginal life.
– “The Producers”: earlier, in November, Pol-ka had started filming “The Producers” (sold to Disney +). Adrián Suar is the protagonist along with a cast led by Gustavo Bermúdez (photo), the Colombian Andrés Parra (“The patron of evil”) and Laurita Fernández.
– What happens in the cable
– At AMC: from tomorrow at 4.30 pm, the action Mega Week Special with “Los ilgales”, “Dragon Blade” and “Blitz” arrives.
– On Lifetime: This month on the weekends Lifetime presents its Lifetime Movies special, with first-run movies made exclusively for television. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 23 will be seen: “Dangerous Lies”, “Circle of Deception”, “Conrad and Michelle”, “The Cheerleader Killer”, “Unwavering Faith” and “Kidnapping in Paradise”.
– In HELLO! TV: tomorrow, at 10:30 p.m., a special of Royals through the looking glass opens, dedicated to Máxima from Holland on the occasion of her 50th birthday.
– On Channel A: starting on Wednesday at 3.30 pm, Hoby de Fino will host “Influencias. Brands on the skin ”, a new cycle of interviews with great musicians from Argentina, such as Lisandro Aristimuño, Hilda Lizarazu, Lula Bertoldi, Nico Sorín, Juanchi Baleirón, Zorrito von Quintiero, Silvina Moreno, Joaquín Levinton, Carca, Maxi Trusso, Rocco Posca and Dante Spinetta, among others.
– On Warner Channel: Thursday at midnight Warner Channel will air new episodes of “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” in its sixth season. The series follows the time traveler Rip Hunter, who returns to the present and forms an unlikely coalition of superheroes and villains to save the world from a terrible danger that threatens to destroy not only the planet, but even time itself.
– On HBO: on Sunday 23rd the signal will premiere the fourth installment of “In therapy,” with Emmy winner Uzo Aduba as Dr. Brooke Taylor. The new season will have 24 episodes where you can see the therapist who in each episode must treat a different patient. Therefore, it will repeat the scheme of “In therapy” issued between 2008 and 2010. Meanwhile, on Thursday, June 3, HBO will broadcast a historic concert by the Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra and his legendary band, the 440. Guerra performs in front of to the gentle waves and beautiful palm trees of this incredible Caribbean location, interpreting his classic and recent merengue hits from his country, and providing a look at his most recent audiovisual work, “Privé”.
– At Film & Arts: on Sunday 30th, at 6.30 pm, the concert of the Sónico group, “Piazzolla-Rovira: The Edge of Tango”, will be broadcast on the Film & Arts screen from the Minard Schouwburg in Ghent (Belgium). Ástor Piazzolla and Eduardo Rovira are usually presented confronted as possible avant-gardes and it is still debated who was the first to modernize tango.
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