There are only a few hours left until for the first time in many years and in many television seasons, a network, a production company and a program will try to dethrone the king of the television slot most desired by all audiovisual groups. Tonight Telecinco premieres the new program by Jorge Javier Vázquez, Cuentos chinos, produced by La Fábrica de la Tele, and which will go head-to-head against Pablo Motos and El Hormiguero, undisputed leaders for 18 seasons in access time.
A risky and courageous move with which Telecinco intends to establish a very complicated strip for the chains due to the indestructible leadership of Pablo Motos. And for this reason, for several days, Mediaset and La Fábrica de la Tele have been releasing pills as spots with the occasional message to Motos and his ants.
However, it was this afternoon, when there were only a little more than three hours to go before the premiere of Cuentos chinos, when Cuentos chinos wanted to directly send a message to Pablo Motos in the form of a letter from Jorge Javier Vázquez to the presenter of El Hormiguero on the that with a friendly and conciliatory tone drops the occasional taunt.
“Dear Pablo: I am your new neighbor, the one across the street. I come to live with you,” the letter begins. “It’s that you’ve been alone at those hours of the night for so many years that I’ve told myself: “Hey Jorge, go keep him a little company.” Because Pablo, as Andreu Buenafuente said: “People in our trade, professionals, we don’t compete , we agree.”
Jorge Javier Vázquez’s letter to Motos continues: “Dear Pablo, I’m not stupid. I know that your house is majestic. But, look, I’m going to leave mine very cute and cozy. Let’s see, I know that surely someday We’ll agree on inviting the same people. I’ll understand when they prefer to go to your house over mine, but that’s not why I’m going to stop inviting them, eh? Because I think there’s room for all of them and maybe some, well, I don’t know , want to come meet me. Hey, they still like to have another neighbor to chat with, even if it’s someone like me.”
“I’m a little nervous because I’ve come to live in the neighborhood for the elderly, in front of you,” says Jorge Javier Vázquez, referring precisely to that strip of access time, the strip that gathers the most viewers, the one that serves as a springboard for prime time and the most desired and valued by advertisers.
“Where the politicians do not call you on the phone, but they present themselves directly to you on the set,” the letter continues, recalling the time that Pedro Sánchez called Jorge Javier Vázquez to Save Me and the times that politicians have gone to campaign in El Anthill. “That is why we have decided to put Chinese Tales on the program. Although I tell you one thing: as it has gone for me, I prefer not to talk about politics. I don’t know about you,” says the Telecinco presenter in reference to that phrase that so many It has brought headaches and that Jorge Javier Vázquez released in Sálvame: “…this program of reds and fags”.
“I have a set… my goodness… I have a very ancient set. Very oriental. Very Chinese. And that’s why every night I will receive a guest who will come to tell me his Chinese story. Have you got it? But don’t think I’m going to be alone in the program, eh? I have a lot of collaborators. Look, I have Susi Caramelo, who is hilarious… I have Anabel Alonso, who apart from giving proclamations and being an actress, is also a collaborator… I have Germán, Josep Ferré with his imitations, Antonio Castelo… Well, and a cat… A cat-lion who is hilarious. From Usera. Her name is Jing Jing. Hey, maybe your ants know her Yours most affectionately, your audience and mine, Jorge Javier”, ends the letter, although Jorge Javier Vázquez leaves the best for the postscript.
“P.S. Hey, Pablo, I saw you with Pantoja, it wasn’t clear to me if she was going to her daughter’s wedding or not. And of course, since I’m the godfather… well, it’s to… go pick her up.” before by Cantora. But since he doesn’t pick up the phone…”.
In fact, it was at the end of last week when Mediaset and La Fábrica de la Tele discovered two new Chinese Tales spots starring their collaborators and in which one of them made reference to El Hormiguero, although very veiled.
It is Anabel Alonso who, during a meal in a Chinese restaurant with some of the program’s collaborators, hits the table hard and, before the startled look of her companions, says: “There was an ant.”
Now, in a more conciliatory, but more ironic and biting tone, Jorge Javier Vázquez warms up one of the most anticipated duels of this new season on television.