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Rocío Carrasco heads the poster of the show with which the memory of her mother will be celebrated on March 8 in Madrid.

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, mythical songs of the greatest will be covered.

As if some were not.

Singers such as Sole Giménez or Rigoberta Bandini, actresses such as Melanie Olivares or Cristina Castaño and the unrepeatable Mercedes Milá will perform on the Wizink Center stage.

And Rocío Carrasco, of course, converted into high-octane fuel

for Telecinco and her peculiar television model.

A model that is in danger.

When two decades ago, the Milá, at the head of the first edition of

Big Brother

, insisted that it was "a sociological experiment" he was obviously referring to the then new reality television format.

Today that expression could well serve to define the relationship between Telecinco and Spain.

What is sociologically interesting

is the fit of this television in Spanish society

and, ultimately, its possible decline.

What if not even Rocío Carrasco and her sordid soap opera were enough food for the monster?

What's more:

what if the monster was already stuffed?

Being the Telecinco monster, of course.

Or Spain.

FORCE MACHINES

Antena 3, at the time sarcastically renamed "the sad TV", has been surpassing Telecinco in audience for some time.

He also does it with an infallible weapon, one that he snatched from the competition:

Pasapalabra.

The change of the contest, court ruling involved, from Telecinco to Antena 3, forced the Mediaset network to once again force its most efficient machine:

Save me.

The magazine (to call it in some way) had to once again demonstrate its elasticity and ability to structure a grid whose main asset is also its biggest obstacle.

And the fact is that while Antena 3 is a succession of independent programs,

Telecinco is almost a continuum of interconnected formats that feed on the same content.

And that content is Telecinco itself.

But that does not mean that the chain is completely self-sufficient.

As in aquariums, it is not enough to constantly filter the water and recycle it.

From time to time you have to add new liquid.

And new bugs.

Just like tropical fish, the inhabitants of the telecinquero universe have a short and indeterminate life expectancy.

In addition, they are often incompatible and end up in a brawl.

Spectating those ridiculous fights is as entertaining as it is innocuously petty.

One feels dirty but good, guilty and innocent at the same time, when he sees a friendly Florida turtle tear apart a goofy carp.

Exactly the same as when he sees Jorge Javier Vázquez raising the tone for the sake of the show ("this is a show for reds and queers!")

or Paz Padilla chanting that love can do anything in the midst of a controversy

over the attacks that Rocío Carrasco received from his teenage daughter.

Precisely Padilla has been one of the last fish to leave the tank.

His questionable behavior on various shows has cost him his job.

Another of the chain's meta-contents falls with it, since at times attacking it became part of the menu of the day.

This friendly fire adds to the clear tiredness of Jorge Javier Vázquez.

Focused on his theatrical projects and with less and less desire to hide it, the host of many of Telecinco's flagship shows continues to be his great symbol.

His departure would be read as the definitive symptom of decadence in a way of making television.

sad tv

For too many months now, sad TV has been on

Sálvame

many times .

And not only because from time to time they integrate too serious themes into their circus, something they should never have done.

Those social service oaths on the show today sound desperate and strategic.

Neither

Pantojas

nor Jurados seem to be able to pull the car now.

The sadness of Telecinco is that of those annual parties that from one year to the next go out of style.

Sooner or later there will be one in which everything remains the same but there is nothing to celebrate.

The same catering,

the same music, the same lighting, a similar guest list...

but now it's late, ma'am.

Who was going to tell Rocío Carrasco that what she was really going to present in 2022 could be the end of Telecinco as we know it.

She is the last very expensive fish added to the aquarium, but the water filter is broken and now what they take is the cats and Roberto Leal.

We could be on the penultimate page of that sociological experiment that has been the Spain that could not be understood without Telecinco.

A chain that broadcasts the same thing all the time and, with enormous talent,

makes us believe that it is the only button on the remote control where "things happen".

Perhaps Telecinco has broken Telecinco... from using it so much.

Unequal Audiences

The premiere of Rocío Carrasco's documentary 'Tell the truth to stay alive' achieved a share' of 33.2% (a total of 3.7 million viewers) at its premiere, being the channel's best audience premiere.

Later, in successive broadcasts, it went down but achieved an average number of viewers of 27.3% (total of 2,596,000 viewers).

However, the end of the reality show coincided with the premiere of 'Tierra amarga' on Antena 3 and the departure of 'Pasapalabra', which deprived T5 of its leadership.

More recently, 'Montealto', the second part of the reality show, has not been able to go back to 'Your face sounds to me'.

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