In the absence of a good party or a disco, roulette is fine. That must be the thought shared by both the team of
La roulette de la luck
as well as the audience on the set and in their homes. Because it is no longer just that the Antena 3 contest has incorporated a live band or made their "go for the boat" a success, it is that there is no current or past song - from
Tusa
or
Despacito
to the hits of
Raffaella Carrà
- that does not have its roulette version in each spin.
And this is how the last 15 years of the after-dinner in Spain have been spent, with a program considered for the elderly, a myth that the audiences break. Never Roulette has had less than a million viewers in its stage on Antena 3 and, in this last year, it has recorded its best historical data with almost
1.8 million daily viewers and almost 20% of the screen share
. There are not that many grandparents in this country.
"And if grandparents see us, it doesn't matter."
The average age of his visionaries does not seem to matter much to
Jorge Fernández
, who has led this «perfect machine» since 2006. «Realistically, there are no such programs anymore,
these audience ratings do not exist on television after 15 years
.
We are leaders every day because the team works perfectly and everything is always where it should be ”.
Control of 'The Wheel of Luck' during filmingÁNGEL NAVARRETE
You just have to get close to a shoot to feel like you're on a car assembly line. Nothing gets out of the script of a program that, as
Nacho Correa
acknowledges
, is recorded "almost at once." Three programs a day, three days a week. "When the 40th minute of net recording approaches, we are playing the boat and we have another one done," says the person in charge of the program on the set.
Not a second more than due in recording or rest. Between each of the three that come together in a morning there are 27 minutes of break and 20 of them are for the contestants to try to spin the roulette. "It seems easy, but there are some who do not move it from what it weighs," says the director while two girls and a boy try with little success. "We are lazy today," says one of the filmmakers while the animator,
Lorena Gil
, jokes with part of the audience: "Come on, you don't have time to eat your sandwich and you come to me with a full mouth to sing."
She is the one who starts the now famous songs of The roulette of luck, which before the pandemic seemed more like a stadium tribune than a stand of a contest.
"It was incredible because we had posters, tambourines and flags, now we have removed it because it cannot be cleaned at every break," says Nacho Correa, who details that the program has reduced the audience to a third and introduced "a noise" to complete the sound of the spectators.
«
Before, there was no room for one more person, at any moment the stands would collapse
.
We had four groups of public already fixed before the Covid and now they come every day ”.
The most faithful routers in the live.
Jorge Fernández, presenter of 'The roulette of luck' ÁNGEL NAVARRETE
It is they and the faithful on the other side of the screen who keep the team "motivated" after 15 years. “I watch the audiences every day, I don't understand the presenters who say they don't, it's the reward for work.
If we have 11%, we have to do something else; if we have a 20, continue
. I care about the audience and I want to win every day and if one day we go down a bit I don't get angry, but we wonder why. We are competitive, but that motivation and discipline make us always be the first ”, affirms Jorge Fernández before the assent of his director and the hostess Laura Moure, who replaced the already well-known Paloma López six years ago.
"For the contestants it is important to come once and meet Jorge or Laura, we go into their homes every day and leaving without talking to us is a bit cold," says the assistant who, at each stop, approaches one of the participants .
That same routine is followed by the presenter, who talks with them for 10 minutes - not one more, not one less - before going out to record.
«I am obsessed with rhythm and if there is confidence, the rhythm grows.
We can't have a person staring at the camera for five seconds because the viewer gets bored ».
Although it does not seem that this happens because,
in the absence of nightlife and drinks,
roulette
is good for 1.8 million Spaniards
, which does not see its end close.
"As if they want us to continue another 15 years, what a problem."
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