Charlotte DaviesSpecial envoy Sant Cugat del Vallès

Special envoy Sant Cugat del Vallès

Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-01:49

A new quarter begins and

La 2

remains immersed in the renewal of its grid, which started in January with the return of the legendary

Cifras y letra

format by Aitor Albizua and the commitment of the recently arrived

Laura Folguera

to create "horizontal strips in The programing". But now, RTVE's second channel will opt for a structure in which the public can better identify their favorite spaces, so it will maintain its cultural slot in the mornings and

create a new appointment with fiction

in the afternoons.

"This April

we premiere all the

prime times

. We continue with everything we started in January, since we want to make horizontal stripes and appointments," began the director of La 2, who described the channel as an "exquisite corner." "Television consumption has changed and linear content has to be very organized so that people can find it, so we have created a first fiction event at 7 p.m.", where the first series to be broadcast will be

Los Durrell

-a starting April 23 - and

Grantchester -

starting May 13 -.

"The grid would look like this

:

on

Tuesdays

we

will

have

Cachitos

,

Ovejas

electricas

and

Late

the

set

of

Late

​

Although no news has been presented, one of the formats that will continue on the grid is

Late Xou

and Marc Giró is very clear about its continuity. "In this program, we are going to be there until June at the moment and it is phenomenal. It is a

classic-style

beat and it will remain the same, with all the enthusiasm in the world...

When something works, why touch it?

", he asked himself the presenter, joking that the program will have "big stars and a great presenter, which is me", and that it will continue on RTVE Play and on La 2 "for the same price".

For his part, Folguera has expressed La 2's desire to bet on a

late night

"as a horizontal strip." "There is a desire to have

a daily

Late

format "has body" to be more than a weekly broadcast.

One of the big news of the quarter will be

Electric Sheep

, with the signing of Berto Romero, which will arrive on our televisions from the same

Órbita Laika

team next Tuesday, April 9. "It is not a literature program, it is not about literary news, where writers come to talk about their book,

but about the noble art of telling stories, of narrative

. People are eager to be told stories with multiple focuses," said Urbana Gil, director of Society and Culture of RTVE.

"They will come from cinema, literature, series, video games, comics. We will have very smart collaborators, leaders in their field. And why do they want me?

I'm not the right person, because I seem smart, but I have a very superficial culture

," said the host of the program, Berto Romero, who does not consider himself an "erudite guy", but admits that he has learned a lot thanks to the program.

"From the mixture of the two things something very entertaining comes out, which,

when you finish watching the program, leaves you with a trace of curiosity

."

Documaster and The Mathematics of the Mirror, about to release new seasons

In addition to betting on new formats and programming, La 2 also receives new seasons of already consolidated spaces such as

La Mathematics of the Mirror

, which is about to premiere its fourth season. Carlos del Amor has defined the program as "a candy, with slow interviews, but with many surprises, in which there are not many fireworks, but things do happen."

"We have spoken with 40 characters who, outside of promotion, agree to sit down and chat about life. They relax a lot and tell many things.

When the program ends I have the feeling that you want to continue pulling the thread and seeing things

," he explained the journalist, whose first guest will be the magician Juan Tamariz. "We had been behind him for two seasons... Then we will have, among others, Emilio Aragón and the Javis, and a very special program that we are going to do about transplants."

After his resignation as director of RTVE Catalonia,

Oriol Nolis debuts in

Documaster

, which is also prepared to live a new stage: "You are going to find the best documentaries that you are going to be able to see on television. There will continue to be history, but we are going to try to have other types of genres, such as documentaries about music like the Spice Girls or great people like the Pope or Kennedy."

Also coming to the open this quarter

is Esto no es Sweden

, RTVE Play's first original fiction series, nominated for the Ferroz Awards.

"Along with some scripts, a great cast that seeks the absolute truth and a very good direction, it talks about themes that everyone can see themselves reflected in. It has comedy, thriller, drama. People can't stop watching them because it has a tone

in crescendo

", explained

Marc Clotet

, executive producer of the series, which won the Prix Europa award for best fiction series in 2023.

As for daily programming,

Culturas 2

will continue in the morning slot, within the firm commitment to culture of RTVE's second channel. "It is becoming a reference in the world of culture because

it is a door to discover the enormous emerging talent that we have here in Spain and that we do not know about

," said

Tània Sarrias

, who considers herself "privileged" to be able to do this program.

"Watching the program you discover someone and you want to go to an exhibition. You see your own program and it encourages you to consume more culture and want to discover more. It is a platform, because currently there are not many opportunities to act on television. Working on a public television It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that something is being done that is important for the world of culture," the presenter concluded.