Refried and inbreeding

Sometimes we forget that Antena 3 also does junk TV;

that began to be done at the same moment in which the chain began to work.

Telecinco, in 1990, mainly programmed cartoons.

Encourage at all hours.

Sports series, series of girls with powers.

They were even so smart that they put an unbeatable series like

at the time of the news.

And of course, explain to a nine-year-old that he can't see the Derrick twins' hell catapult because his parents want to know how he's doing in the Gulf War.

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), but also what happened to us, what made that an event that did not get to be berlanguiano because first of all it was nefarious.

Now even crime is pop.

Everything is postmodern, everything is liquid.

Everything is nothing.

We have come a long way since we saw “life live” for the first time, since it was suggested to us from TVE to live “the fight for fame” live (which turned out to be, luckily, an endearing coexistence between young singers) .

The public that vibrated with Oliver and Benji may be the last generation of pure viewers.

Those who have come after, those who will come, are screen audiences.

I can barely distinguish Cuatro from La Sexta.

La Sexta is more politicized if possible, and Risto Mejide comes out on Cuatro all the time.

Right now television offers two options: the rehash (we will never get tired of watching Pawnbrokers

The

and informative endogamy (so that later they say royalty).

I think about all this because this Wednesday, apparently, a new president enters Mediaset.

His name is Borja Prado and, from what they tell me, he is a tyrant in the original sense of the term.

That is, he comes to fix things.

Sometimes, to understand television, you have to understand economics first.

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