Between news and low-risk bets: this is summer on free-to-air television

Raúl Gómez, presenter of 'You have touched';

Halit Özgür Sarı, star of 'Brothers', and William Petersen in 'CSI: Vegas'.

The television cannot be closed for vacations, not even in summer, but it can be switched to a more relaxed mode.

Summer is the time for substitutes, reruns, recorded programs, movies and series.

It is also time to experiment: the heat means that there are fewer people in front of the television, which implies less advertising investment and, therefore, if a program is released and it fails, the fall is less painful.

From time to time, one of these experiments succeeds and remains on the grid:

arrived in Spain in the summer of 2000, and other spaces such as

or

also began in the summer months and ended up marking time.

The Spanish series

(Thursday at 10:40 p.m.) is one of the bets of La 1 for this summer,

starring Adriana Ugarte in which a murderer decides to take justice into his own hands and kill criminals who are released from prison for the

.

The first TVE channel broadcasts two episodes per week of the series available for months on Amazon Prime Video.

In the coming weeks they will also premiere the contest

, presented by the humorist Raúl Gómez and which combines cultural knowledge, chance and skill.

A new installment of

and the premiere of

, another contest presented by the magician and comedian Jandro, a family space based on the original questions formulated by a virtual reality girl.

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Summer is also time for classics in every way.

In La 1, there will be the Tour de France (from July 1 to 24), the Sanfermines (chupinazo on July 6 and running of the bulls from 7 to 14) and the Vuelta a España (from August 19 to September 11).

, Mondays on La 2, kicks off the summer with a cycle dedicated to John Wayne and John Ford with the broadcast of

and

On Tuesdays, the second public television network will broadcast, with a double chapter, the series

complete for the first time.

In addition, it will program specials coinciding with different anniversaries: a documentary for the 500th anniversary of the death of Nebrija, the film

for the centenary of the birth of Blake Edwards, a special for the fifth anniversary of the death of Ángel Nieto and different dedicated content 60 years after the death of Marilyn Monroe and 25 after that of Lady Di.

Luca Zingaretti, protagonist of 'El commissioner Montalbano'.

Atresmedia has chosen continuity and playing it safe.

If in previous summers the Turkish series worked perfectly for them in prime time, the bet is the same this year and on Sunday, June 26, Antena 3 premiered what will be one of its main dishes in the coming months,

.

will put reruns on the weeks in which it is on vacation, as usual, and the rest of the channel's programming remains very stable:

still has several programs to broadcast,

faces its final stretch, and

continues and

, in addition to the films of

.

On the nights of La Sexta they will bet on foreign movies and series, while the Atresplayer Premium platform will have premieres such as the series

, starring Arturo Valls (July 3), and

, a space that shows realities LGBT in Spain outside the big cities (July 10).

At Mediaset, the

has kicked off the summer, which will continue on July 4 with a classic,

, which takes over from

In addition,

an extension of

will be the substitute for It's

, which disappears from the grid.

Two fiction premieres are planned for the next few weeks:

with the return of Grissom and company, and the Italian police series

.

For its part, Cuatro will also resort to fiction for its nights, with the open premiere of

and a new season of

.

They will also schedule new installments of

.

In addition, it will be the Eurobasket channel in September, which in August will warm up its engines with the broadcast of four preparatory games.

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