El Intermedio
El Intermedio is a news satire television program produced by Globomedia and broadcast in La Sexta. It is the work of Miguel Sánchez Romero, who is the responsible of the creation of several successful TV programs such as El club de la comedia, Noche Hache or 59 segundos
The program is hosted, since its beginnings, by José Miguel Monzón, and co-hosted by Beatriz Montañez from 2006 to 2011 and since then by Sandra Sabatés. It is aired on access prime-time, from 9.30 pm, four days a week on Spain's nationwide channel laSexta.
Currently it has nine main collaborators: Sandra Sabatés-, Thais Villas, Dani Mateo, Joaquín Reyes, Guillermo Fesser, Álvaro Carmona, Iván Lagarto, Manuel Burque, Andrea Ropero and Sara Escudero. Its production team is composed of more than 40 people. It is the only program of La Sexta which is still on emission since the beginnings of the channel.
The song of the heading, called "Give me a break", was composed especially for the program by Juan Carlos Cuello and produced by Sound Garden Producciones.
The writers are Alberto López, Alberto González Vázquez, Lola Zambade, Eva Nuño Gómez, Nuria Dominguez, Diego Solanas, Eduardo García Eyo, Sergio Sarria Ruiz, Juan José López and Miguel Ángel Hernández. Alberto González Vázquez is also the author of the popular segment videos manipulados.
Cast
Presenters
- :es:El Gran Wyoming|El Gran Wyoming -
- Sandra Sabatés- -
Current collaborators
- :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas-
- Dani Mateo-
- Joaquín Reyes-
- Guillermo Fesser-
- :es:Manuel Burque|Manuel Burque-
- Santi Villas-
- :es:Andrea Ropero|Andrea Ropero-
- Sara Escudero-
Former collaborators
- Usun Yoon-.
- Yolanda Ramos-.
- Cristina Peña-
- :es:África Luca de Tena|África Luca de Tena-
- Lara Ruiz-
- Tania Llasera-
- Jianyang Huang "''Chayanne" – -.
- Fernando González "Gonzo"-.
Former presenters
- Juana Bonet – substitute presenter and Fridays' presenter.
- Pablo Carbonell – Fridays' presenter.
- Andreu Buenafuente – – substitute presenter.
- Beatriz Montañez – – co presenter.
- Dani Mateo – – presenter of the International Edition.
History
It is a humorous program of current issues that started being weekly -- and that, later, move on to be on emission from Mondays to Thursdays --.
In its first season, as a weekly recorded program; had as collaborators :es:Javier Cansado|Javier Cansado, Juan Luis Galiardo and :es:Jimmy Barnatán|Jimmy Barnatán.
Since the season 2006–2007, as a live daily program, El Gran Wyoming presented the program in collaboration with Beatriz Montañez, :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas, Yolanda Ramos, Cristina Peña and Usun Yoon.
In September 2008, Yolanda Ramos and Cristina Peña left the program and two new collaborators joined it: :es:África Luca de Tena|África Luca de Tena and the Argentinian Lara Ruiz. Besides, the show increased its daily emissions to Friday's night. At the beginning, the program was hosted by :es:Pablo Carbonell|Pablo Carbonell. In February 2009, the program counted on the incorporation of :es:Juan Ramón Bonet|Juanra Bonet, in substitution of :es:Pablo Carbonell|Pablo Carbonell in Friday's emission.
In September 2009; on the verge of the beginning of a new season, it was confirmed the abandonment of Lara Ruiz and :es:África Luca de Tena|África Luca de Tena and the incorporation of :es:Tania Llasera|Tania Llasera as new reporter, substituting those aforementioned.
On 21 October 2009, the program started emitting in. On 3 December 2009, Andreu Buenafuente and El Gran Wyoming, exchanged their programs for a day, presenting Buenafuente Wyoming's program, and vice versa.
On 17 February 2010, it was published the new of :es:Tania Llasera|Tania Llasera abandoning the show after signing up with Telecinco. In March 2010, Fridays’ edition was cancelled and, instead, la Sexta, started to emit films, which caused the leaving of :es:Juan Ramón Bonet|Juanra Bonet.
On 1 September 2010, the show started its new season using a completely new set and incorporating to its collaborators :es:Fernando González «Gonzo»|Fernando González "Gonzo".
On 29 August 2011, a new season was released, counting on Dani Mateo as a new member of the show.
On 21 December 2011, Beatriz Montañez left the program and Sandra Sabatés substitutes her since 9 January 2012.
On 27 June 2013, Usun Yoon saw off tho the program after 7 seasons to focus on her career as an actress.
In February 2014, Joaquín Reyes incorporated to teamwork to carry out his parodies of well-known characters of the Spanish politics.
On 9 November 2016, Guillermo Fesser joins the show, carrying out his usual collaborations in the program from the United States, coinciding with Donald Trump's victory in the Presidential elections in this country.
Audience
El intermedio has a robust health when talking about audiences. Currently, it has a television rating that oscillates between 8–9%, which is above the average of the channel, achieving peaks of over 2 million spectators.Its historical record of viewers corresponds to the emission of the Monday 25 May 2015, with 3.291.000 spectators,, the day after the Local elections and with the visit of the candidate to Madrid's City Hall Manuela Carmena.
However, its historical record of share was registered during the program on Tuesday, 26 May 2015, with 17.6% of television ratings.
These have been the average audiences of the fourteen seasons of the show El intermedio.
- Bold: most watched season.
Awards
Award | Awarded | Year |
Best entertainment program. | El intermedio. | 2011, 2012 & 2013. |
Best program presenter | El Gran Wyoming. | 2008, 2011, 2012 & 2013. |
Best script. | Lola Zambade, Sergio Sarriá Ruiz, Alberto González, Miguel Hernández, Eduardo García, Raúl Navarro, Diego Saucedo, Óscar Benítez, Luis Miguel Pérez, Manuel Gay, Raquel Haro, Irene Varela, Yaiza Nuevo, Olalla Granka, David Navas & Miguel Esteban. | 2012 & 2013. |
- In April 2015, it is acknowledged with the Premio Pluma, in the category of media, from the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Transexuales y Bisexuales for its labour against homophobic intolerance.
Content
After it, appears the header of the show. Sandra Sabatés starts with the news of the day. In the case of the collaborators, usually appears Dani Mateo at first, and showing up :es:Andrea Ropero|Andrea Ropero at last, who appears at the end.
Sections
Current sections
- Actualidad musical : Iván Lagarto y Álvaro Carmona parody the actuality and transform it into a musical performance.
- Interviews with Manuel Burque: The humorist goes onto the street and do a report.
- El montacargos: Similar to a Sitcom, in which appear different member of the political class.
- Zanguangos: The humorist Joaquín Reyes parodies well-known characters from the Spanish political class,, with his usual manchego style.
- A lo Ropero: :es:Andrea Ropero|Andrea Ropero visits different political events as a reporter, to ask them uncomfortable questions that no other channel dares to ask. Besides, the collaborator travels to several countries which suffer a humanitarian crisis, showing reports as, for example, immigrants’ situation.
- El pico the la mesa : Wyoming contemplates the actuality from the peak of the table. Occasionally, Sandra Sabatés also comes to this peak.
- :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas: Interviews with different guests: famous or pedestrians; generally on the street or in a place related to the interview.
- Imbatible Dani Mateo : Dani Mateo's interventions in the set, generally with Wyoming's participation, that also go over the social media.
- Reality Shock: Sara Escudero analyzes with a lot of humor and rigour some global issues that affect society: the job insecurity beneath the clothing industry, the business of the personal information in the social media or why the biggest corporations barely pay any taxes.
- Manipulated videos: Even though it is not a proper section, between the different parts of the show or when changing the subject, they are introduced. Some recurrent videos are:
- *Aznar en tiempos revueltos: The video is based on an interview of :es:Veo Televisión|Veo7 to José María Aznar in which he talks about the situation in Spain when he got to the Government in 1996. In this video, a famous character substitutes the interviewer, exchanging jokes with Aznar.
- * Canciones de Rajoy : This video is composed by parts of the electoral debate of 2008, singing the lyrics of well-known songs.
- * ¿Has mantenido relaciones sexuales con…?: A voice-over asks the person shown in the video if they have had sex with other men, followed by an outstanding answer of the interviewed.
- *Aznar en inglés : Mockeries about how the ex president talks in English in different situations. After the events of the Madrid's Candidature for the Olympic Summer Games in 2020, where his wife Ana Botella, former Madrid's major, talks in English and makes popular expression "relaxing cup of café con leche", her appearance is also usual.
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- La voz de la calle : Occasionally, the program undertakes surveys related to the actuality to pedestrians.
- Servicio Público : :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas brings a politician to carry out everyday activities that current citizens ask them to, as washing the car.
- Mujer tenía que ser : Sandra Sabatés interviews a woman who has been or is a reason for exceedance.
Former sections
- Cañas y barra : :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas goes to a bar with a famous person to interview them.
- Sabáticos : Weekly section where two young Spanish, Pedro and Pablo, from the blog Sabaticos.com, tired of the Spanish crisis, travel to three countries, with the main purpose of made known the culture and customs, lifestyle and institutions from Spain; such as its gastronomy, football or Institutions as the Civil Guard.
- Las andadas de Usun Yoon : Usun Yoon interviews in the street and in crowded events.
- El experimento : A reporter goes onto the street to make jokes to the pedestrians and watch their behaviour. The experiments are continually changing, but there are several installments of the same subject. For example, some experiments were Destructoras or Qué será lo que quiere el negro.
- Amigos : The guests performed a little role in the show.
- ¡Qué viva España!: :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas goes to the street to ask about different issues to the immigrants that live in Spain.
- Seven Apps: Dani Mateo presents the most bizarre apps invented for smartphones and those made up by the program. Initially it was called: Apps de mierda
- Animales hijos de p… : In this part, hosted initially by Yolanda Ramos and, later on, by :es:África Luca de Tena|África Luca de Tena. In it, several pieces of documentaries related to dangerous animals are shown.
- Franco: A puppet caricatures the dictator Francisco Franco, usually to make comments related to news or to join the guests.
- Troche y Moche: Two puppets that appear orange ants, parodies of Trancas and Barrancas, the pets of El Hormiguero, acted in a puppet theatre with Franco's puppet.
- Economía para guapos : This section had Rafa Martín as ambassador, who voiced his mind with Wyoming and Dani Mateo in relation with the actuality according to the imaging world with the purpose that the beauties of Spain understand better the economy of the country.
- Teología para guapos : It is a section with a similar format to Economía para guapos, where Rafa Martín voiced his opinion about the theological actuality, showing its intricacies to make it more understandable for Spain's beauties.
- La Hoz : Parodying the talent show known as La voz, Wyoming is the jury of a contest that looked for a new spokesman on the left side of the Spanish politics.
- Reportera Low cost : Usun Yoon travelled around cities all over Europe to ask citizens of different countries about issues related to Spain and its actuality. The only requirement was that the trip had to be done by a Low cost company.
- La actualidad en 1 minuto : Wyoming and Beatriz Montañez quickly reviewed the actuality, showing edited images. In reality, it Tok more than just 1 minute.
- Lo que España vota va a misa : Survey in which the audience was asked about a current issue, providing two humorous answers.
- Beni: an Elmo puppet controlled by Wyoming laughed at the news.
- Aborto libre ': The first pet of the show, the linx Aborto libre, always came to annoy Wyoming and Beatriz or to make something filthy.
- :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas en acción : :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas went to the street to ask some questions to famous characters, politicians or citizens.
- Todo sobre mi madre : In this section, viewers sent question to Wyoming, and he answered them in the program.
- :es:Tania Llasera|Tania Llasera: :es:Tania Llasera|Tania Llasera complaints about the injustices of Spain.
- Sex Home: :es:Tania Llasera|Tania Llasera went to the street so that people in which parts of their house had they had sex.
- Milagros : :es:Tania Llasera|Tania Llasera's dog showed its abilities.
- Yo te llevo : :es:Thais Villas|Thais Villas took different famous in a limousine such as: Estopa, Willy Toledo or Fernando Trueba. The music of the section was Hit the Road of Ray Charles.
- Mi país en la mochila : Usun Yoon traveled around various villages of Spain, emulating the RTVE program :es:Un país en la mochila|Un país en la mochila of :es:José Antonio Labordeta|José Antonio Labordeta.
- Trata de arrancarlo, Usun : It was a section with Usun Yoon as its main character, where she enrolled on a course to pass the drivers' examination, which she finally did.
- Expediente Iker : Beatriz Montañez satirized the program :es:Cuarto Milenio|Cuarto Milenio, of Iker Jiménez, emitted by :es:Cuatro |Cuatro. Previously, this section was hosted by Cristina Peña.
- Un, dos, tres, haga daño otra vez : This section, which was a parody from the former contest of TVE Un, dos, tres, in which Thais Villas, along with a guest, and they usually mocked of Wyoming.
- Tengo una pregunta para usted Sr. Wyoming : Parodying the program of TVE, the spectators asked questions to Wyoming.
- El mundo según Google : In this section the results of the image search in the browser of the news provided by Beatriz were shown.
- ¿A quién nos ganaremos hoy? : El Gran Wyoming and Beatriz Montañez showed the traditions of other countries, so that the Spanish immigrants watched the program, such as Peru, Romania, Bolivia or Morocco.
- El cocinero de Rota : El Gran Wyoming presented some funny or awkward videos of the chef :es:José Luis Santamaría|José Luis Santamaría. Originally, this section was presented by :es:África Luca de Tena|África Luca de Tena and, afterwards, by Tania Llasera.
- El padre sonrisas : It is a gathering of videos of :es:Jorge Loring Miró|Jorge Loring, a priest who, through the television, taught catholic and biblical values in his program Para salvarte, always with aggressive theories or rhetoric.
- Deontología, cuándo serás mía : In this section, the non-compliances of the deontological code were reviewed.
- Butifarras y estrellas : Section dedicated to the overview of events related to the Catalonian elections.
- Qué morriña de ikurriña: Section dedicated to the elections of Galicia and the Basque Country, which were simultaneous.
- House of Jaris': Section that covered the Andalusian Elections. In its heading, Chiquito de la Calzada substitutes Kevin Spacey in its role of Frank Underwood in the series House of Cards.
Gags and sketches
Current
- Portugal and France: Usually, El Gran Wyoming makes some references to its neighboring countries in a satyric way, often highlighting the similarity between Spain and France and Portugal and Spain.
- Previous channels: It is usual that Wyoming is humiliated telling his experience related to his expulsion of the rest of the Spanish channels.
- Chess: Occasionally, El Gran Wyoming includes this sport into his jokes, describing it as a dull and monotonous game.
Former
- Eggs: When Wyoming wanted to avoid saying that word, he level up his hands and, when getting them off, in the lower part of the screen appear two big eggs, making a sound.
- Talking in English: When Beatriz Montañez said something in English while she is in her section, Wyoming tend to fixed something that she had said, pissing her off.
- Usun is from Utrera: It was a usual joke that Usun Yoon appeared dressed with typical Andalusian clothing, assuring her Andalusian origin despite her oriental features and foreign accent.
- President Zapatero: it was a usual joke that when someone referred to the now expresidente Zapatero, El Gran Wyoming stood up and adopted a militar position while he places a finger on one of his eyebrows making the popular gesture of the :es:Plataforma de Apoyo a Zapatero|Support Platform of Zapatero.
- Ortega Cano against the world: During the presidential elections of 2008, the program emitted a video in response to the negative of the PP to offer a debate televised by La Sexta and which consisted of a manipulation that mixed fragments of the interview to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy with an interview to the bullfighter, José Ortega Cano in DEC, in a way that it appeared a real discussion between them. The video received rave reviews on the Internet and soon the program made more versions with Pedro Solbes and several other politicians, and, once the elections passed, characters such as Andrés Pajares, Sara Montiel, form series such as Quark from Star Trek or Jim Brass from CSI, an English teacher and Bruce Willis, among others.
- Franco was gay: During the season of 2007–2008 it was usual that Cristina Peña, in collaboration with a professional visionary, reviews the experiments carried out by Iker Jiménez in his program :es:Cuarto Milenio|Cuarto Milenio, where she tried to surprised them by asking if Franco was gay, although they always answered no, that they did not believe it, despite the evidences that Cristina showed.
- Windows from Cádiz: It consisted of a gargantuan screen that answered with sexual rhythms to any question that it was asked.
- Totana: It was really usual that Wyoming made any reference to this Murcia's locality.
- Loves: Juanra was in love with Beatriz, and he is always telling her that he sees them as a family, although Beatriz tells him that they are never going to start it. Thais is also in love with Wyoming, but he could not accept it as she is from the :es:PP|PP,, but he ended up succumbing to her insinuations and, since then, they are considered partners and they usually show their love for each other in public, although more than once they have had an argument. Little by little, this gag has become more unusual, and currently there is no reference made towards it.
- Conquest of easy jokes: Frequently, El Gran Wyoming presents a section in which all the collaborators made some easy jokes about any news. This gone always ended with a joke told by Beatriz Montañez, at which nobody laughed.