Pablo Motos, Paolo Vasile or the women of 'Intimacy': the television characters of 2022

In this troubled world, there is no television year without controversy or changes.

In 2022 we have seen how Paolo Vasile left his position as CEO of Mediaset;

there was also relief on TVE, which is still looking for a way to resurface.

or

have combined audience and controversy, but there are also positive examples that we will not forget in this review.

In addition, we look at fiction, where some characters say goodbye to the screens forever.

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The journalist Elena Sánchez Caballero is the interim president of RTVE. RTVE/Raúl Tejedor (RTVE/EFE)

Elena Sanchez Caballero

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The continuous state of anxiety in which RTVE has lived in recent times has had a new chapter this year with the resignation of José Manuel Pérez Tornero as president of the corporation after a year and a half in office after having lost the support of PSOE and United We Can .

In her place, Elena Sánchez Caballero, with a long career at RTVE, was elected interim president.

In her first appearance before the parliamentary control commission, Sánchez Caballero justified the approval of contracts worth 23 million euros to guarantee the broadcast of programs on public television: "In January we were going black."

Paolo Vasile, CEO of Mediaset.

Paolo Vasile

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At the end of the year, Mediaset España announced that Paolo Vasile was leaving his position as CEO of the company, after two decades in office.

It is the end of an era for Spanish television, with the departure of the man who invented Telecinco's profitable economic model: meta-referential, very close to direct, to the reality television genre and to the heart.

Sonsoles Ónega, at the Atresmedia headquarters in Madrid.

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Sonsoles Onega

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The journalist, struggling for years in Congress for the Mediaset news, had become the great hope of Telecinco (even a future substitute for Ana Rosa Quintana in the mornings of the chain) with

and

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The abrupt and unexpected departure of her to Antena 3 to host

intensified in this 2022 the audience war that is waged especially in the afternoons of both channels.

The presenter Ana Blanco.RTVE

Anne White.

August was ending when it became known that the journalist, who for more than 30 years had been a constant and a benchmark as the face of TVE news, would not return to the public news when she returned from the summer.

Alejandra Herranz was chosen to present the desktop edition of La 1 from Monday to Friday and thus replace someone irreplaceable.

little miracles

Patricia López Arnaiz and Itziar Ituño, in an image from the series 'Intimacy'. DAVID HERRANZ/NETFLIX

Women of

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The creators Laura Sarmiento and Verónica Fernández, an eminently female cast made up of Itziar Ituño, Verónica Echegui, Patricia López Arnáiz, Ana Wagener and Emma Suárez, among others, and the director Marta Font managed to sneak into the global conversation for weeks with this series of Netflix.

Its plot is even more pertinent as it is very close to the reality of women like Olvido Hormigos and Verónica, the Iveco worker who committed suicide after a video of hers with sexual content was broadcast in her company.

Jose Coronado, protagonist of 'Entrevías'.Mediaset

David Bermejo

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The scriptwriter has worked a miracle in audiences with

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The series starring Jose Coronado has been one of the few programs that have worked this year on Telecinco, with the added difficulty of being a weekly series, an increasingly complicated genre on linear television in the face of the "à la carte" of the platforms. .

It began with controversy for being called the same as a Madrid neighborhood and ended up opening a new path for immigrant characters in Spanish fiction.

Its success caused the network to air its two seasons in a row.

And to order a third.

Ander Puig, in a moment of 'To be or not to be'.

Ander Puig

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In 2021, this twenty-something was a newsstand in Barcelona, ​​but 2022 brought him two relevant roles in the pioneering

de RTVE Play, and in the world-renowned

.

In the first, he plays a trans boy who, like him, is trying to carve out a career in acting.

In the second, he moves naturally half-naked in the already famous men's locker rooms of the Netflix series.

Although he does not consider himself a reference, he told this newspaper in March, he wants many other young people to discover other realities through his characters and he is not afraid of being pigeonholed in trans roles.

Elena Rivera, on December 14 with her Ondas Award.

MASSIMILIANO MINOCRI

Elena Rivera.

A few days ago, he received the Ondas Award not for a specific role, but for his work in three series broadcast in 2022. He began the year starring in

on La 1, followed by

's broadcast on Antena 3 and its subsequent global success on Netflix, and completed it with the premiere, also on Netflix, of

.

The actress we saw grow up under the name of Karina in

pasó has shown that she is capable of carrying entire projects on her shoulders and shining with her own light.

A round year for her.

Belén Barenys, singer, actress and playwright, in Barcelona in November.Albert Garcia

Bethlehem Barenys

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This 23-year-old from Barcelona is no longer known only as "Rigoberta Bandini's cousin" (she is one of the singer's showgirls in

o

) thanks to

-defense (Filmin), one of the most popular series It has been talked about this end of the year.

She is the most visible face of the creative duo that she has formed with Berta Prieto, with whom she has managed to introduce a series about two girls (themselves as protagonists) who go out to have fun and get high.

Two impertinent girls who don't cut each other.

It may seem easy.

polemics

Pablo Motos in 'El homiguero'.

Pablo Motorcycles

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It does not matter that the communicator or his

go almost to a new controversy per week, the Antena 3 space achieved in the fall of 2022 the best screen quotas in its history, which is already made up of 17 seasons.

The Streisand effect that was marked a few weeks ago deserves special mention, criticizing a campaign of Irene Montero's Ministry of Equality that almost no one knew was referring to one of her interviews.

Chanel, during her performance in the Eurovision 2022 final.Europa Press

Chanel

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One of the most brilliant cases of rise to fame.

The singer and actress was almost unknown before taking the stage of the first semifinal of the Benidorm Fest, at the end of January.

Three minutes and thousands of praising tweets after her (the time that her live performance of

) of her, she was already one of the three favorites to win the contest and become the Spanish representative for Eurovision 2022. she He did it.

She was about to win in May in Turin, something unprecedented for Spain for decades, giving Televisión Española a long-awaited great television event.

And, to the media.

certain controversy with which to feed her pages for months.

Patricia Conde listens to the jury after the outdoor test of the 'MasterChef Celebrity 7' final.

Patricia Count

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The presenter and actress was the protagonist of the most famous controversy in the history of

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In a text that she published on Instagram after the final of the version with celebrities of the La 1 program, Conde launched accusations of manipulation and pointed to the drug use of two of her classmates.

Although she deleted those phrases shortly after, the controversy was already served, so much so that the producer denied the accusations and threatened to take legal action.

fictional faces

Christine Baranski, as Diane Lockhart in the final season of 'The Good Fight'.

Diane Lockhart

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With her characteristic laugh, the character played by Christine Baranski has said goodbye to television this year with the final season of

.

The last few chapters have led this sensible lawyer, with firm Democratic convictions, to experiment with drugs to face a world that is too crazy.

, continuation of the legal drama

(in which Diane was a secondary character), has been one of the series that has best explained the absurdity of today's world.

Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn as Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler in 'Better Call Saul.'

Saul Goodman and Kim Wexler

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The couple of protagonists of

consolidated in the last season of the series created by Vincent Gilligan and Peter Gould the great non-romantic love story of contemporary television.

They are the visible and already unforgettable faces of a series that knew how to close the circle opened by

and become something much bigger than a

The look and fate of Wexler and Goodman (or McGill, depending on the moment) will remain in the memory of many viewers.

Emma D'Arcy, in the last episode of the first season of 'The House of the Dragon'. HBO Max

Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen

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Women call the shots in

, the prequel to

.

To explain where Daenerys Targaryen came from, the story travels to her ancestors to tell a family drama, a fight for succession, with dragons involved.

Rhaenyra Targaryen (impossible to write her name without using Google) is the engine of the story.

In the first season of her, she has been played with great solvency by Milly Alcock for the adolescent version and Emma D'Arcy for her mature years.

Luca Zingaretti, the commissioner Salvo Montalbano, in a chapter of the series.

Montalbano

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33 novels starred curator Salvo Montalbano (tribute to Manuel Vázquez Montalban and his Pepe Carvalho) from

in 1994. What the great character of Andrea Camilleri could not imagine is that he was going to be the star of the audience of La 2 and become a summer phenomenon that led to peaks of more than 600,000 viewers and close to the audience of the first public channel.

The series consists of 37 episodes, finished broadcasting in October but is still available on RTVE Play.

The actor Luca Zingaretti is for thousands of spectators the incarnation of the literary detective and one of the television faces of the year.

contests and surprises

Rafa and Orestes, in 'Pasapalabra'.

Orestes Barbero and Rafa Castaño

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They are already the couple that has faced each other the most times in the history of

.

They and their brilliant Roscos have a lot of responsibility for the Antena 3 contest to be one of the most watched daily programs on television in Spain.

In addition, Orestes and his bad jokes have already broken the record for permanence in the contest, with more than 260 uninterrupted programs.

Rafa has also exceeded one hundred participations.

It just so happens that the two of them were the contestants when the program had to leave Telecinco in 2019. They are getting closer and closer to the jackpot, which already exceeds the one that Pablo Díaz took in 2021.

The astronaut and former minister Pedro Duque (left) instructs Joaquín in the program 'El novato'.

Joaquin

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The Betis footballer, an audience talisman on any screen, has become the revelation of the season with his own interview program.

debuted pulverizing audiences on Antena 3 and, although he has been losing some steam over the weeks, he continues to be a success for the channel.

The same producer of Bertín Osborne's programs has created a hybrid between the singer's intimate encounters, a

and a reality show full of humor for the athlete.

The virtual girl Mapi with Jandro, presenter of the TVE contest.

mapi

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It was summer and there was not much to be entertained with, so when TVE began to announce a new contest for La 1 in which the presenter was a girl created by augmented reality, jokes and memes did not wait.

The controversy was prior to the premiere;

once the broadcasts began, the furor subsided when realizing that the effect on the screen was not so terrible and the cocky attitude of the character gained followers (although not enough for Mapi to last long on the air).

Behind the doll was hiding an actress with a helmet to recreate with advanced technology, and in real time, her movements on the character's face.

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