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With the D , situation of who suffers a painful event: misfortune. You can say louder, but you can't say more clearly. The end of the Pasapalabra broadcast is a disgrace, a disgrace for television, a disgrace to the viewer and a disgrace to a chain. It may sound exaggerated, but what Pasapalabra has achieved in the almost 20 years of broadcast that has been between us is a milestone difficult to achieve in the times that run on the beloved and also hated television.

When on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. the news jumped out that the Supreme Court announced that it rejected Telecinco's last resort in the legal battle with ITV, a little piece of my heart fell apart. Paolo Vasile's chain had to stop immediately broadcasting Pasapalabra . Misfortune.

It seemed so impossible that something like this could happen that I had to read and reread the information several times. I looked for the sentence, read it and analyzed it as if in some hidden paragraph there was going to be a phrase that said 'this can be solved' , but the only solution would be an agreement in extremis between ITV and Telecinco, and for now there is little hope.

The end of the program's broadcast, for those of us who love television with all its pros and cons, is like the end of an era , the era of things well done - and I'm not talking about legal weaving - the era of confidence in a format, the era of giving the viewer something different, the era of making entertaining what a priori was not going to be profitable, the era of giving culture and fun, the era of living a rosco as if we believed María Moliner ...

It is when they take something away from you when you realize the importance it has, and that is what will happen with Pasapalabra . Why programs like Know and Win , Boom !, the mythical Time is money - Oh, if Constantine Romero raised his head! - or Pasapalabra are historical programs? Because the viewer needs them, television needs them, society needs them.

The answer is very simple: because they are unique . Because the audience has become accustomed to programs that only give pure and hard entertainment, but these programs give entertainment and culture.

Getting the audience data that Pasapalabra got is already a milestone. Who would have thought a few years ago that a program of definitions could reach almost 27% audience ? The success of Pasapalabra was a cluster of good decisions: to give what others did not give , to have famous people who were exposed to the judgment of the audience at their cultural level, an exceptional presenter, emotion and fun. All that has vanished at a stroke because of bad decisions and because of 'I can with this'

What the Supreme Court has rejected is an appeal filed by Mediaset against the judgment of a court in Madrid in which the Spanish subsidiary of the Italian company was condemned "to cease immediately , being also prohibited from resuming the issuance in the future, edition, production, reproduction, public communication, distribution, transformation and all and any other form exploitation, by itself or through third parties, of the Pasapalabra program ". Mediaset was losing its battle against British ITV , but who we have really lost is the audience.

Vasile's group believed until the end that they could win, that nobody was going to take away their star products, and lost. In fact, the possibility of losing the judicial battle was not even included in the company's report regarding 2018. He has lost and now there is no reaction time. What can replace Pasapalabra ? The solution is very complicated.

Vasile expected an exculpatory pronouncement that did not arrive. Mediaset believed they had them all by questioning that ITV was the sole owner of Pasapalabra , a completely original program and, therefore, protectable from a point of view of the regulations governing intellectual property. He was wrong .

The death of a milestone

The milestone died, a historical program died, the format that gave it a 160% share died in 2018 and with it died more than 3,000 programs, more than 3,000 donuts, more than a hundred historical and millionaire boats. A program that was ours, that was of the whole audience, that was part of our communion with television died.

The story of Pasapalabra is the story of the treasure that everyone craves. He was born in Antena 3, lived in Telecinco and died in Mediaset. It was the perfect program for any chain, but Antena 3 decided six years after its release to stop broadcasting. A year later Telecinco was done with him and returned to the small screen.

Based on the British program The Alphabet game - hence all this war - the program does not have much mystery. Two contestants try to accumulate seconds in different tests to reach a final thread as long as possible where they have to solve a thread formed by different definitions. The success of simplicity . If that is added to the famous people who come to help the contestants and the ability of a presenter, Cristian Galvez , to connect superbly with the audience, is unstoppable.

It is a fast, fun, intense, fun program and, above all, a program that anyone can play from home. Raise the hand that seeing one of the donuts has not tried to solve it at the same time as the contestant. That is the key, to entertain, while you get the viewer to participate from home .

But within its simplicity Pasapalabra was also the program that delivered the most money - until Los Lobos and ¡Boom! -. Their boats were historical reaching over two million euros. And the best, that the next day you would have seen it or not everyone wanted to see if they would be able to solve the thread of the two million.

Located in the perfect time slot until the appearance of ¡Boom! Nothing managed to shade him. No matter what the rest of the chains programmed, Pasapalabra was unsurpassed for a simple reason, it was for everyone. For adults, for children, for young people, for the elderly ... and, above all, Telecinco took care of it and pampered it like others of its star formats.

They were looking for personalities that would attract attention, they were looking for very expensive contestants and with great personalities, they were looking for not to disappoint and if at some point the audiences began to go down, the chain removed some script twist from its sleeve that fit perfectly between the audience . But even Andrea Levy , a politician, had the courage - because it must be had - to go and expose herself knowing what could fall for her! But if even Cristian Gálvez met the woman of his life, Almudena Cid , during the filming of the program!

We have seen professors, engineers, protocol chiefs, biologists, officials; we have seen an Armenian contestant, Lilit Manukyan , who learned Spanish in a self-taught way to win a succulent boat of 318,000 euros; we have seen contestants who failed to take the boat, but who dazzled the audience; we have seen participants who later went to Survivors ; we have seen great battles - thanks Jero, thanks Orestes- ; we have seen so many and so much culture in Pasapalabra that ... With the R , a composition that is sung with the liturgical text of the mass of the dead, or part of it: Requiem for a great. Goodbye, dear Pasapalabra .

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