It came to be the large family entertainment format of public television. A ‘save me’ past by the TVE sieve, widened with more content … Whites such as gardening, fitness or kitchen, to make it visible even for those not initiated in that universe created in Mediaset first and adapted in Netflix and the TEN channel later. It was about growing the base of followers of a closed group of people with their own frames and catching a new audience, which every afternoon goes to 1 in search of ‘the promise’ and ‘Wild Valley’. But the truth is that in this first week of broadcasts, ‘The family of TV’ not only has not found its place on the evening grill. It is that he has managed to disenchant those who were waiting for his return to the first channels of the remote control to collect mythical phrases from Belén Esteban, the dances of Lydia Lozano, the Gazapos de María Patiño or the discussions between Kiko Matamoros and Chelo García Cortés, now orphans of plots. And above all, not attract a new audience, which is suspicious that the quality of the format is up to a public channel and has sentenced it with the first Share data. Criticisms have even arrived from the chain itself. But what happened this week for the program to have chained controversies?
The TV family landed on TVE with controversy from the first moment. The first criticisms were aimed at the economic cost of the format, produced by the OSA (before the TV factory). The Corporation gave the green light to the proposal to reproduce a kind of ‘Save me’ in 1 for a total amount of 5.3 million euros for a first batch of 65 programs. At a total cost of 80,000 euros per day. He also did it after two failed premiere attempts. The first, frustrated by the news of the death of Pope Francis, who forced TVE to modify the programming. The second, for the blackout that left the entire peninsula without electricity. But on 5/5/2025, finally, they could release with a parade on the exteriors of Prado del Rey, loaded with technical problems in the broadcast.
The program presented by María Patiño, Aitor Albizua and Inés Hernand has reached 1 with grid hole somewhat strange. TVE, aware of the pull of his evening soap operas, has placed a first part of the magazine at 3:50 p.m., just after the news and his regional replicas. At that time it remains for a little less than an hour and gives way to the two series. However, the program continues at RTVE Play, the online version, but without the entire team. Then, at 6:40 p.m. he takes up his linear broadcast, until 20:30, when they give way to ‘here the earth’.
Fans of the group formed by characters such as Belén Esteban, Lydia Lozano, María Patiño, Kiko Matamoros, Víctor Sandoval or Chelo García Cortés, the protagonists of the old ‘Save Me’ the family has grown. Patiño now co -presents the program with two other presenters, and a large group of collaborators fills every afternoon the orange sofa in which they comment on the news of the heart of the heart. But they have also filled the program of other content related to gardening, fitness, kitchen, social networks or events, which have turned the huge set into a pastiche of unconnected themes that have already raised the first criticisms in social networks.
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The audience turns their backs
It seems that the program does not just convince the audience. And, during its first week in antenna the spectators data have not exceeded 800,000, although the space contains two successful series such as ‘Wild Valley’ and ‘The Promise’. Specifically, on Wednesday, May 7, (the last of the week with known data) the Magazine of Heart obtained 623,000 spectators and 8.9% of Share. On Tuesday, May 6, he signed a 9.5% screen share by gathering an average of 731,000 viewers and on Monday, the day of his great premiere, ‘The TV family’ reached a discreet 10.1% screen share and 807,000 spectators. ‘The family of TV’ continues, for the fourth consecutive day, far from its main competitors in time slot. For example, ‘Dreams of Freedom’ (Antena 3) gathered Wednesday in front of the TV to 1,219,000 spectators (13.9% quota) and ‘and now Sonsoles’ obtained 902,000 spectators (11.5% Share). For more morbid, the program of the former presenter of ‘Save Me’, Jorge Javier Vázquez, with whom they compete during the time, led the strip and almost doubled the data of his former partners.
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Critical fierce from within TVE
First were those of some anonymous workers to the show of the first day parade. Then, some illustrious faces of the chain arrived in these years, such as Maria Escario or Ángeles Caso (both out of TV already). The former defender of the Audience at RTVE, in full hours of ‘The Family of TV’, could not avoid commenting on X (previously Twitter) his opinion about what he was seeing, being bluntly with the program: «Ufff!«. This caused the reaction of his followers who have understood that it is a reference to the TVE space.
-Then, María Escario again pulled her profile in X to share an article by Ángeles Caso, expressing of the news, in which she launched an opinion of the program, entitled ‘That someone takes seriously TVE’. In this opinion, the journalist, who also speaks of her past in the public chain, describes how “all those ‘characters’ appeared again that for years have been presuming on a television deprived of being ignorant.” “They have talked about all the imaginable bullshit as if they were giving us a class on a crucial issue, they have skinned women for their physique or their behavior by ensuring at the same time that they were feminist, they have put us in front of the eyes the most cutter, uncultured, gald and unbalanced parts of a society that no longer knows what to entertain themselves,” says the article.
But, this Friday the criticism uploaded one more step. The TVE Informative Council issued a hard statement in which it urged the presidency of the public entity and the Board of Directors of RTVE to act so that the ‘The Family of the TV’ “does not give the credibility” of the information services or harm the brand image. The complaint comes from one of the most important TVE organs such as the Informative Council, consisting of thirteen TVE professionals democratically elected every two years. This group of workers directly indicates to the program of María Patiño and Belén Esteban for, in his opinion, to break the “great work” that many professionals of the public entity have been carrying out in recent weeks in Rome, from the death of Pope Francis to the election of Leo XIV, on Thursday, as his successor. A statement that many faces of the chain have shared such as the correspondent Almudena Ariza.
“Neither the tone nor the shape of this program is what is expected of a public television,” the statement on the coverage that occurred in the afternoon in ‘The Family of TV’ to the White Fumata. Marta Riesco, who became famous for having a relationship with the ex -husband of Rocío Jurado’s daughter, planted in the Plaza San Pedro with a TVE microphone. For the Informative Council of the Public Entity, this “the credibility” of the environment and “harms the brand image” because the event itself is “clearly informative.”
In his fight for the audience, the Osa format, has begun to bet on other content that usually gives audience to generalist televisions. It was especially commented on networks, this week, the moment in which a great photo of Ana Julia Quezada, the murderer of the boy Gabriel Cruz, presided over the set of the program, with María Patiño as a driver, and contestants like Kiko Matamoros or Belén Esteban, to talk about such a serious and sensitive theme. But the labels are also being controversial, which are sometimes exceeded in their double sense or irony, to deal with all kinds. “María did everything on top,” said one of the last, on Friday’s program.
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Inherited quarrels of the past
In this first week, the new TVE program has recovered old quarrels of the past, inherited from its stage in Mediaset. The treatment of some issues has already been questioned by many viewers. Especially striking have been the blocks dedicated to the expressed of ‘Save Me’ Paz Padilla, to which they have questioned their new academic degree as Coach. A kind of adjustment of the previous stage. They also had an awkward moment with Rosa Benito, the new Masterchef Celebrity contestant, former collaborator of the program presented by Jorge Javier Vázquez. The sister -in -law of Rocio Jurado does not have a good relationship with her former colleagues, so during the presentation of the kitchen talent in which she participated, she gave a swipe to the reporter of ‘The TV family’ during their connection, and escaped flat. Something that has served his former partners to turn it into the object of his criticism. Along the same lines, they have inherited the quarrels with their ex -companion Terelu Campos, or the enmity they drag from the previous chain with the tonadillera Isabel Pantoja. Especially now that his daughter, Isa Pi, is one of the collaborators of the new format of the 1.
The end of ‘The Family of TV’ gives way to the dissemination program ‘Here La Earth’, conducted by presenter Jacob Petrus. The space driver has become the new Pedro Piqueras, who in his day sweated ink to keep the plane in the pass they gave him, daily, then the ‘save me’. Piqueras, visible face of Telecinco news, remained impertérrito, despite the tone outputs of the collaborators and presenters, in the change of program. Now, it is Jacob Petrus who has occupied that role. And for the moment, none of the days have called it by name, in the transition to the change of program. Something that has caused laughter on set and some other presenter correction.
