Julia Otero is from another world

Julia Otero

is also

, she is also a history of television.

When she disappeared from the so-called 'silly box' 10 years ago, few were aware of the jewel she had just lost.

There are gifts that one is born with that make you one of a kind.

is one of a kind and she proved it -although she didn't have to prove anything- last night.

The journalist said at the beginning

that she hoped "this thing on TV is like riding a bicycle", because "there was time" for her to forget it.

When one learns to ride a bicycle for many years, if one day you ride again, the first pedaling is hard, the next ones come out alone.

has

not had a hard time with that first pedal stroke or any of the following ones.

is

and

is

, and there is nothing more to say.

"If you come with us," he continued, "we will remember things together that I think we have forgotten.

. A journey that begins with an act as familiar, as simple and as recognized as sitting together to watch the television (...) This program is

even those who presume, that there are such, of not watching it, even those who enjoy or suffer from the powerful influence of television. Today begins

. Welcome!"

Two starting minutes were needed to understand that what

proposes is to travel from the past to the present, to travel for what we have been and are, to travel remembering, to travel with

.

Who would turn down that trip?

Días de tele

is designed for a very specific generation and, indeed, without

it would be a kind of

, but with a modified structure.

The one who puts the magic so that

does not remain on a trip to nostalgia through the small screen is her.

Note that the program not only has guests -paco

,

or

last night- and with collaborators chosen to sit in a month the past, the present and the future, and still everything could disappear and only the images of the immense archive of RTVE and

, and the program would continue to be the same jewel.

Because what makes

that lost and forgotten jewel in a memory drawer is her.

The 5.5 million euros -400,000 euros for each of the 13 installments of

- that, according to

r,

has paid to

, for this program no clothes hurt.

They are well paid because

.

I don't know if

will become part of television history like that

, like that

or like that

, but it would deserve a place.

Without

at the helm,

would be a nostalgia program for nostalgics, without more.

A journey of files, images and documents, period.

From Uri Geller to little Nicholas

If last night he touched on the year 1975 with the historic television moment of

breaking and bending spoons in the face of

in

, and he touched that generation, the one that has now exceeded 60, to search his memory for those days of collective hypnosis in which everyone wanted to bend spoons with their minds, imagine everything that

can give us back .

If next week,

took us to the first

in the history of television, it would be the so-called

generation , the one that would dive into her memory.

However, what

has is that it happened in 1975 or in 2001, it attracts those who lived through it and those who had not even been born yet.

I was not born when

live program with Uri Geller turning cutlery into butter broke out, but

transports you and takes you by the hand to that moment even after five decades have passed.

It's not just the images, it's his way of telling it, his way of getting people to know what Spain was like then, through a television milestone of that year, why we "needed to believe" with such impetus, why it was believed without putting it in no doubt that this "illusionist" could truly bend and split any metal object.

It takes you back to 1975, but it also brings you to today.

, raised

.

She not only raised it but she put it into practice.

she took a "disciple" of Uri Geller to do the same thing that

did 50 years ago.

Of course, nothing to do with what was then.

Yes, the "illusionist" folded several spoons, broke one, gave it to

, but luckily the Spain of 50 years ago is not the Spain of today.

What nobody has taken away from us is what

said at the beginning of the program:

. For this reason, on this trip, we are also going to walk through the present. In reality, the television that we have seen, look, surely it defines and explains a part of how we are today".

And with those images of

,

,

, the mythical director of

and other historical programs,

's trip was not only to remember that Spain of September 1975, but also that Spain that I believed what were hoaxes then and today are

, and what remains from then.

Because there is still

With her, a journey of so many hours that would surely end up tiring,

How long has it been since you sat in front of the television and wanted more, and gave your opinion, and you said 'oh, I lived that!

or how strong what happened!?

This is

and this is the magic of

.

Julia Otero, the recovered jewel

When the program begins, it seems that what it is going to tell has already been told and seen a thousand times, but immediately the innate magnetism of

catches you .

That magnetism that she already had in the past and that seems to be directed only at you and nothing else but you.

As if you were the one sitting at the collaborators table or in the interview chair -last night to

Valls- ;

's "disciple"

was with you and not with

.

This ability is not learned, you are born with it.

's gift

is to start a program with

and end it with

and that the trip in between doesn't make you lose heart or seem strange to you.

Is not easy.

It is not easy to start with a television moment from 1975, go through the Spain of those years, through

's first performance on television, through the differences between reality and fiction, through

, through

, for the series of the time, for

, for the death of Francisco Franco, for the lies, for the hoax of

and Ricky Martín and for

and that everything fits like a custom-made glove.

A guiding thread is needed, someone to manage the helm, lower the sails, light the anchors, order the crew... Yes, a captain, but not just any one, it has to be a captain who is passionate about the sea, love your boat and be ready to face the dangers of the deep water.

I think they have forgotten what it is to make television without background noise and without creating it.

That is why it was so necessary for someone like

to return to television.

Not only because she knows how to do it, but because

.

A sweet, kind journey...

A trip where you know that the captain will be like the musicians on the Titanic, who will not abandon the ship, nor the travelers, nor the crew.

-forgive the redundancy-, with no more pretensions than that, to make good television in times that, fortunately or unfortunately, are no longer those of that 1975.

I highly doubt this ship could have a better captain.

I very much doubt that

was what it proved to be last night without

taking the helm.

I very much doubt that today we understand what it means to have the journalist on the other side of the screen again.

For those of us who grew up with television as the brother we never had,

is our memory, our jewel.

For those who don't, even for those who deny the 'silly box,

.

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