Imanol Arias charges against TVE: “It is unbearable to be on that chain. I hope not to return to anything public for a long time."

Although the 22nd season of

still has one chapter left to broadcast, this Thursday's closed most of the plots.

With the end of this batch of episodes, rumors about the future of the veteran public television series are revived.

Its protagonist, Imanol Arias, spoke about

y su futuro this Wednesday on the TeleBilbao program

, some statements that have raised dust and for which the actor has apologized this Friday on Instagram.

At one point in the long interview, lasting an hour and a half, the actor addresses the situation of Televisión Española and his experience working in the public broadcaster.

“It is unbearable to be in that chain, I hope not to return to anything in a long time, to anything public.

In this country it is unbearable”, says the actor, to continue seconds later: “I don't want to go back, let them release me now”.

Arias' blunt answer came after the presenter Joseba Solozabal's question about what it seems to be difficult to recognize the success of national productions in Spain.

"It's public television, we all treat it that way," says the interpreter.

Arias recalled in his response the elimination of TVE advertising in 2010, a fact that he thought would mean the death of public television.

"It is very expensive".

According to the actor, the elimination of advertising would mean "having fewer and fewer viewers" for a television that, according to the actor, has a budget of about 1,700 million euros (in reality, it is currently about 445 million).

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The actor also charged against the workers of the public corporation, “9,000 people that I have seen who do nothing, who are left over.

Why

is not done with TVE workers?

Why is no series made with those workers who are hired?

And since we come from outside, they publish the salary of those outside of television, why don't they publish the salary of those who are inside and do nothing?

It's unbearable to be in that chain."

Thanks to the RTVE transparency mailbox and a query from the digital media

, it was made public that Imanol Arias and Ana Duato earn around 47,000 euros per episode, that is, more than 900,000 euros per season.

Next, he revealed what, according to Arias, is the reason why TVE supposedly decided to end the series.

“From the first chapter of this season, Narcís Serra came out, that is historic, and he said that they should remove the doctor to justify the death of an ETA member and avoid Roldán.

Someone from the board of directors, a socialist, a woman, who earns 7,500 euros a month, said, 'we have to cut off this head because we are beginning to tell a story that is very bad for the PSOE'.

After three weeks they said we were done.

That's public television.

I don't want to go back, let them release me now, "he concluded.

Since 2012, the directors of RTVE have not received a salary, but instead receive per diems for attending their meetings.

Although Imanol Arias was accused of defrauding the Treasury, what he says requires clarification by the @rtve Board of Directors.

He affirms that @ Cuentametve disappears because the Psoe does not like the scripts that touch on socialist corruption.

Noooo yes?

pic.twitter.com/DEtVaSQBQR

– Free TVE Platform (@TvPlataforma) June 10, 2022

This Friday, Ganga, producer of

has disassociated herself from Arias' words with a statement: "No one in this production company shares the statements made by Imanol and we feel embarrassed by them."

In the text they also show their “absolute respect towards all the members of the board of directors of RTVE and their decisions, respect that extends towards all the professionals of the house.

The assumption that any of them could have vetoed

due to any of its plots is, in addition to being crazy, false”.

Those responsible for the series, one of the most successful on Spanish television in the world and which has accumulated dozens of awards in its more than 20 years of life, have always shown the independence they have had when it comes to develop their plots, regardless of the political party that was in power at the time.

And in that same line they insist in this statement.

"We have never received slogans from RTVE."

They take advantage of the text to thank the public channel "for the freedom that it has always offered to the authors and performers of this television work."

Official statement from Grupo Ganga in relation to the statements of Imanol Arias in which he refers to various issues in relation to Cuéntame and RTVE pic.twitter.com/Nw07eNCiTP

– Ganga Group (@GrupoGanga) June 10, 2022

“This production company has been working side by side with TVE for 20 years, and we are proud of everything we have achieved together based on solid and continuous work by both parties.

We regret that such a positive collaboration could be called into question,” the statement concludes.

Shortly after the Ganga Producciones statement, Imanol Arias published on Instagram a photo of the series

, which he starred in between 1989 and 1990 on TVE, accompanied by a text in which he apologizes for his "regrettable and unfortunate" statements, "inappropriate of me and not really sincere, the result of a verbosity that flooded me that night”.

“I spent three towns, I honestly lost my mind, and nothing I said fully represents me.

I betrayed myself and many people with whom I have worked hard and well.

TVE is like my family and one can lose one's temper with the family”, he adds.

The future of

has not yet been decided.

As Bluper published in April, the public network could be studying ending the series with a shorter season than usual or a television movie that closes the plots.

But the final decision has not yet been made.

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