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"It is a common practice and should be known. Only if you write can you be a creator. Only if you write can you be a screenwriter." This is one of the four tweets that have unleashed the controversy around the new series of RTVE for its access time, 4 stars. Borja González Santaolalla, one of the writers of the series, denounced last night at the same time that the multichannel premiere -La 1, La 2, Clan and RTVE Play- that the executive producer of the series, the showrunner, the creator, Daniel Écija, appears in the credits as one of the scriptwriters, but "has not written a single line of dialogue".

González Santaolalla published a tweet with an image of the credits of the two chapters issued last night in which Daniel Écija, Ángel Turlán, Aitor Santos and Tirso Conde appear, accompanied by the following sentence: "Guess which of these names has not written a single line of dialogue."

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4 stars, the return of RTVE to the classic series of Daniel Écija to compete with El Hormiguero: "We return to the TV of the audimeters"

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4 stars, the return of RTVE to the classic series of Daniel Écija to compete with El Hormiguero: "We return to the TV of the audimeters"

A tweet that has been shared and responded to by the largest union of screenwriters in Spain with more than 800 members, ALMA: "We remind you that writing is writing. The rest can be to speak, converse, depart, debate, discuss, dissent, utter, analyze, deliberate, study, reason, refute, refute, refute, contradict, propose, suggest, demand, request, order, impose, lead, question..."

Then, the screenwriter published another tweet: "Not to mention that the two chapters broadcast today were written by Ángel Turlán and I." And another one: "That on the other hand, we are the ones who wrote the bible and the pilot." And he finished with his last tweet in which the irony disappears to give way to a denunciation and his consequent anger: "It is a common practice and it should be known. Only if you write can you be a creator. Only if you write can you be a screenwriter."

A complaint and anger that have overshadowed the joy of the premiere of 4 Stars, which in La 1 made an audience of 10.5% of screen share, being the second option chosen by viewers on Sunday night and that gives hope that it can improve the battered access time of RTVE.

Indeed, 4 stars will start at 22.00 hours and will compete directly with El Hormiguero, the black beast of access for RTVE and for all linear television channels in Spain. And he does it with a formula full of well-known names: Antonio Resines, Toni Acosta, Dafne Fernández, Ana Gracia... And, of course, Daniel Écija, the executive producer of the series, now accused of not being a 4-star screenwriter and of not having written "not a single line" despite appearing in the credits as such.

RTVE scheduled last night the special premiere of '4 stars', a day before the series is installed in the access prime time of La 1. From today, the audience will be able to follow from Monday to Thursday at 21:50 p.m. the plots around the Lasierra family in the town of Vera del Rey.

A family series, modern and romantic, with dyes of comedy and drama, co-produced by RTVE and The Good Mood and executive produced by Daniel Écija, which also includes in its cast David Lorente, Antonio Molero, Raúl Prieto, Ana Jara, Martí Cordero, Alejandro Albarracín, Marina Baeza, Rosario Pardo, Francesca Piñón, Luisa Martín, Gonzalo Caps, Álvaro Fontalba, Belén Écija, Edgar Vittorino and Carolina Rubio.

The last few months, the 4-star cast has been a family, also behind the camera. The rhythm of a daily fiction imposes marathon days of 12 hours, 42 chapters open to time, six directors sometimes with three parallel units, 14 scriptwriters and scenes shot in a single take, as if it were a false direct. "You have to be very healthy, physically and psychologically," jokes Gracia.

The result is a mixture of genres between romanticism, thriller and comedy manners that, according to the actresses, goes great to accompany the dinner. "It's a good time to sit on the sofa, it's 45 minutes without ads and it allows you to disconnect," says Dafne Fernández

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