A special night, a vulgar television offer

The television programming on Christmas Eve is so predictable that to write this chronicle I could have copied word for word any of those published by this newspaper in the last five years and I would hardly have had to change a name.

Even during the pandemic, the chains did not vary their roadmap beyond incorporating a mask here and a social distance there.

Last night was presented so lacking in stimuli that the content that aroused the most curiosity was an institutional discourse.

One more year, TVE has made

its epicenter, but what was once a small Christmas event has gone from innovative and endearing to

.

That the chain chose Ana Obregón and Mario Vaquerizo as presenters, the couple that will excite the conservative majority of the Constitutional Court, shows their lack of interest in attracting anyone born less than half a century ago.

If in its origins its main attraction was to enjoy the unprecedented facet of popular faces, today it is the equivalent of crashing the party of a company in which you have never worked.

The obstinacy of showing each and every one of the professionals in the house, as if instead of a program that aspires to attract an audience, it was a school function in which all children deserve to shine, causes one to be repeated repeatedly in homes. of the most famous memes of

"Who are these people?".

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Along the way, he has also lost another of his hallmarks: songs.

The classics reinterpreted with a certain irony and nods to the present have been replaced by radio formula hits.

What cannot be blamed is production.

The costumes, the decorations and the realization that this year included exteriors recorded in Córdoba, Benidorm, Madrid and Barcelona were wonderful.

Although more than 30 years later we still remember Julia Otero singing

, in a performance whose only ingredients were her and an orchestra —well, well, let's see what ingredient can be better than Julia Otero—, she shows that charisma and a good song are more effective in being unforgettable than all the drones that can cross the Madrid skies.

It is difficult for us on Tuesday to be able to remember three performances that we have seen tonight.

Mónica Naranjo and Raphael, during TVE's Christmas Eve special.

You have to value the public that it is the only one that the starting team brings out to play in the third regional field that is Christmas Eve, even if it is with such unoriginal ingredients.

Raphael has returned, a Christmas classic to whom few will put a but.

His duets with Nathy Peluso and Mónica Naranjo stood out positively and it is necessary to forget the performance of Ana Mena, who did not limit herself to destroying

, she also proceeded to kidnap her, cut off her ear and call each Spaniard to ask a rescue.

As of the delivery of this chronicle, there is no record that the Prosecutor's Office has taken action against a crime against humanity, another example of the erosion of our institutions, as the King pointed out in his speech.

After that of Linares it was Morat's turn.

Not to be confused with Morad, the rapper who performs with the same verve on stage as he does in court, but rather the Colombian band that Carolina Durante included in her anthem: "All my friends are called Cayetano / They don't vote for the PP, they vote for Ciudadanos / Morat, Stool, what a group!"

Among his companions, a ubiquitous Pablo López;

Aitana, who returned as a guest star after starring in one of last year's specials, and Manuel Carrasco with the best sweater of the night.

Morat and Aitana, on Christmas Eve on La 1.

With a more minority vocation, RTVE Play launched the first chapter —a mini-chapter, just three minutes— of

, the Christmas show by Lorena Castell, the brand new winner of

, that gastronomic

that if it had lasted a couple more weeks this year would have finished as

.

Surely there are many who would have preferred that the winner with her own space had been Patricia Conde, who became TVE's Wednesday Addams, three minutes would have been enough for her to continue skinning the worn-out culinary format without the need for Santoku knives.

Antena 3 and Telecinco sign an armistice

As if Christmas Eve were a friendly in which points are not at stake, only honor, Antena 3 and Telecinco, which the rest of the year fight for a tenth of a

, once again signed an armistice.

Antena 3 placed its eternal

of supposedly shocking or funny moments in which we always miss

and squeezed a little more

Telecinco has tried harder, offering with

a new update of those legendary Florida Park finery.

Five and a half hours of performances in rigorous

conducted by Jesús Vázquez and Verónica Dulanto, because on this night Mediaset renounces its crooked fang and becomes a kind

Hyde.

Such an eclectic container that there has even been room for a shadow play show!

Television can be wonderful even at its lowest moments.

Jesús Vázquez and Verónica Dulanto, presenters of the '¡Viva la fiesta!' gala.

Among those who repeated it on more than one channel was Ana Mena, who during her time at Telecinco confirmed that if Georges Perec could write

without ever using the letter "e", she can build a musical career ignoring the pronunciation of at least half a dozen consonants from the Spanish alphabet, and Mario Vaquerizo, the longest joke of the 21st century.

Diego Losada's debut as a singer was one of the few surprises of the night: the presenter of

exuded attitude and presented his candidacy as a future contestant on

.

While Telecinco and Antena 3 weathered the Christmas dawn with undisguised disinterest, their mini-yos behaved directly like the rebellious cousins ​​who celebrate the winter solstice.

Cuatro limited itself to resorting to random

while La Sexta went one step further.

Despite the fact that, as the Twitter account Peli de Tarde recalled, Saturday was the day “thousands of American executives who hate Christmas will be trapped in a small town in Vermont due to a car breakdown or the cancellation of a flight

There, they will fall in love with a veterinarian and recover the Christmas spirit”, the chain preferred to drastically lower the sugar level in the environment and ended the night with a couple of

of those who remind us that we must never let our guard down before strangers.

Outside of the general channels and Christmas proposals, one of the best offers was at #0, which programmed

followed by

.

If the irreverent Virgil Hilts and his Triumph TR6 didn't fix the night, Oh Lala, C'es la vie, Parabris, Tour Eiffel and the “Scarecrow, I'll miss you more than anyone” would make it.

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