20-meter jumps, raw entrails, square roots... This is the most extreme Basque 'reality' that reaches RTVE

The mythical

de EiTB makes the leap to the

on television.

will premiere its

next autumn and since February the production company

will start the

to select the contestants for the

that has hooked two generations of Basques.

The team led by

has already activated a production whose latest editions have been recorded in

,

, a natural reserve with islands of impressive beauty that hides humid mangroves, the constant attack of all kinds of insects and where tests are carried out extreme with hardly any food.

Springboard jumps from 20 meters high, infinite climbs, raw entrails of a pig cut open, climbing bamboo 'drunken sticks' and, above all, solving square roots before diving to open a chest submerged at three meters deep await the Spanish conquerors.

After 19 seasons on

(the Spanish-language Basque television channel),

arrives on

as a personal commitment by

, the content director signed in the spring of 2022. The two public television stations will share the same format because the

will also be broadcast in the Basque Country after Christmas.

Extreme tests in 'El conquistador del Caribe' by EiTB.

RTVE has not agreed to reveal the conditions of the purchase of the format devised by

,

and

, but the production company

(

) is finalizing the selection process of the conquerors of the first edition while on

Season 19 triumphs again, full of nods to the youngest, the most difficult audience for open television and the one that López dreams of to rejuvenate the audience of the Public Entity.

The chapter of the presentation of the

of the 2023 edition on January 9 attracted 306,000 viewers, with a 26.7%

.

But the data was even better among the youth audience.

In the age group between 13 and 24 years it reached a 51.1% share of the screen, and 41.9% between 25 and 55 years.

In addition, 14,593 people watched the first episode online, and more than 80% of these new viewers are under 25 years of age.

To the conquest of the young public

«The

with the young audience was extraordinary.

What we have done has been to incentivize it, incentivize it, incentivize it.

Listen to what they want and do it.

Three out of four kids in Euskadi and Navarra are hooked;

We are going with them to the fullest », acknowledges Patxi Alonso, who keeps his two daughters up to date on each innovation.

El

pampers its youngest followers with the U22 first team to consolidate itself as the "

closest to reality", as its creator claims.

In 2016 the

also created the first team made up only of women and commissioned former cyclist

to guide them as captain during the group stage prior to the last individual matches.

37 participants are part of the teams that compete in El conquistador del Caribe.RTVE

Seven years later, the Basque

has incorporated the 28-year-old former handball player and stone lifter

as co-host , and she is sweeping social networks, one of the priorities of the production team.

Next to Errekondo continues

, who has participated in all the recordings of the program in Patagonia, Panama, Honduras and now the Dominican Republic.

His face began to be known in the rest of Spain after his participation in

in 2021, and it is a safe bet for the producer to continue provoking the contestants during the adventure in the first edition for TVE.

Basque winks

In an extreme competition in which psychological resistance prevails over physical fitness, the objective of "reaching the last frontier, going to the beyond" that prompted the initial project is maintained, although it remains to be seen how Hostoil manages

as that the ikurriña is the prize for the winning team of the weekly duel, or that the prize for the final conqueror is only

.

El

, a journalist from Bilbao who grew up in sports information,

already accumulated at the start of the 21st century , who participated in

and also in private productions of Telecinco, La Sexta and Antena 3, where for four seasons he directed the galas of

.

Hostoil

, with Alonso, Montoya and Goñi as pillars, has already reinforced its structure to play in the

of a Conquis on TVE.

Until now, in the editions produced for ETB2, a team of more than 100 people participated during 35 days in the Dominican Republic, with specific work groups ranging from the organization of the

of participants, the design and preparation of the tests proposed from Euskadi by

from

.

The production company will record the adventure of the new Spanish conquerors in the first half of 2023.

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