• Empresas Mediapro, Jaume Roures' production company, buys Buenafuente, El Terrat

"When I came to Madrid, in Catalonia they said that he was going to kill me." In retrospect, more than a decade later, this premonition about

Andreu Buenafuente's

career does not seem accurate

. There was precisely no death when he left a TV3 at the beginning of the 2000s where he had done "everything" to make "the logical leap" to the national level, to general television. "After ten years on TV3, there were signs that we could project ourselves to all of Spain, it was a step with a certain risk because the change of language in communication is not a minor issue."

That was the landing of Buenafuente, today a benchmark of

Spanish

late night

, and its producer,

El Terrat

, which is now three decades old, in the national ecosystem with Antena 3 in search of "new impulses and incentives." «We did the first

beat

and I stayed in the Spanish environment because it was possible to continue progressing. We found a niche in the industry and we seized the moment », recalls the Catalan presenter, who will premiere the documentary series

El Terrat: The first 30

on Filmin

tomorrow

.

It was 2005 when the Catalan and his team arrived at Antena 3 with

Buenafuente late night

to compete with Xavier Sardá and

Crónicas marcianas

. To his credit, more than a decade with El Terrat, a production company that received the name of his old program on

Radio Reus

, working for TV3.

What memory do you have of those years of TV3 in full pujolismo? Surely I will be imprecise, but I was able to do what I wanted, my team and I arrived like a tsunami of freshness in the late 90's with creative and formal freedom. We did daily, weekly programs, the first sitcom. Sometimes I doubt how we did it, but I remember good managers like the now-defunct Lluís Oliva, who locked me in his office and let me ditch. Contrast with the current vision and other people. There was something at that time that I value now and that we knew how to take advantage of. In the end you put this in value, now with the public media so much discussed. And when we arrive in Madrid, the success of the first time We all have ambitions and dreams and there are moments and people that allow it. I caught that moment when they told me to go ahead.

Andreu Buenafuente, with his team from El TerratTV3

Those were the years in which Buenafuente managed to consolidate the

late

format

, barely exploited in Spain, compete with

Crónicas marcianas

and win the audience.

Three seasons later, he went with the program to

La Sexta

after negotiating his departure with Antena 3.

A manager even called him a television corpse. Did you think it was the end? Not really, I'm either stubborn or naive, but I thought there was still a project and we had to continue. The phrase hurt like any other person, but I was proud that I was going to be more passionate about this, I renewed my desire and we relaunched. If I may joke, I showed that as a zombie you can keep working. And it becomes a quarry of comedians like Berto Romero, Jordi Évole, Ana Morgade, Bob Pop ... Is there some pride of the father with his children? There I have mixed feelings, I get that father's streak because I know they respect me a lot. I am amused by that vanity of ours, but I like being a partner more than being a boss. I have laughed and I continue to laugh with them.This week I have recorded two radio programs with Berto and I continue to laugh in 2021 with a man who arrived in 2006. It is that bipolarity that I have to decide, but then I roll up my sleeves and cover myself in the mud with Berto.

That's where the 2008 crisis appeared, which almost ended El Terrat.

"The world was a shit, the fall in advertising is shaking the business and there is still a guy with glasses and his colleagues," he details.

But the debt grows and the projects do not start.

Until in 2015 pay TV arrives and in 2019 Mediapro, which assumes the eight million debt of the producer.

Still from 'El Terrat: The first 30'Filmin

Is that sale of El Terrat to Mediapro a failure in your business career? No, because it is a sale to continue being, it is not like who sells the family factory and takes the money to the Caribbean. By going to Mediapro we managed not to continue in the threat of the world economy and to continue being El Terrat, it reassures to get up, owe nothing to anyone and continue creating. I've always been very personal in my playpen, but you can't be like that in such a screwed-up world. A year ago I said that this was a very screwed-up stage to make humor. What remains? It is a very fucked up stage even to live, it is the hardest and most stimulating that I have lived. It has been a cocktail that I never thought would live but we have gone through it, we have survived, that without maturity we would not have made it. This knocks down any production company, in fact many have fallen by the wayside.Seeing the trial and the jail request for David Suárez for a joke on Twitter, does political correctness not help either? I, who have been in this for years, come from Pujolismo and almost from the Transition, I never believed that we were going to prosecute comedy, it is an absolute anomaly. We are no exception, this is built on constant threats and dangers and one of them is taking comedians to court. Freedom of expression sounds good to us but we do not want to know it in depth. It is a debate a thousand times raised, but what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.Political correctness doesn't help either? I, who have been in this for years, come from Pujolismo and almost from the Transition, I never believed that we were going to prosecute comedy, it is an absolute anomaly. We are no exception, this is built on constant threats and dangers and one of them is taking comedians to court. Freedom of expression sounds good to us but we do not want to know it in depth. It is a debate a thousand times raised, but what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.Political correctness doesn't help either? I, who have been in this for years, come from Pujolismo and almost from the Transition, I never believed that we were going to prosecute comedy, it is an absolute anomaly. We are no exception, this is built on constant threats and dangers and one of them is taking comedians to court. Freedom of expression sounds good to us but we do not want to know it in depth. It is a debate a thousand times raised, but what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.it is an absolute anomaly. We are no exception, this is built on constant threats and dangers and one of them is taking comedians to court. Freedom of expression sounds good to us but we do not want to know it in depth. It is a debate a thousand times raised, but what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.it is an absolute anomaly. We are no exception, this is built on constant threats and dangers and one of them is taking comedians to court. Freedom of expression sounds good to us but we do not want to know it in depth. It is a debate a thousand times raised, but what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.But what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.But what is the limit of humor? I'm not a good theorist, but if you take the joke out of the comic context, everything weighs and everything creaks. I'm very tired of talking about the limits of humor, you can talk about tastes, but not about legality or illegality. I have my personal taste, you just have to see what I do to understand it.

In this he continues with El Terrat, 30 years later.

"The turra on the turra, two cups of turra", he concludes.

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