After the abrupt end of Sálvame, the relationship between Mediaset España and La fábrica de tele was totally in question. The production company, which continues to be 33% owned by the communication group, has been forced to execute an ERE to its staff when it is left without one of its main economic supports.
That is why the company that owns Telecinco and Cuatro wanted to send a message of reassurance to La fábrica, assuring that they will continue to count on them in different new formats, in addition to renewing confidence in programs that are still on the air such as Todo es mentira or Socialité. However, one of those spaces has finally been cancelled.
This is Focus, the investigative program that Cuatro premiered last March. After having discreet audience data for its first installments, Mediaset considered canceling it back in May, but decided to extend its run until the end of the season, with hints, even, of a possible renewal.
Despite the changes made to try to improve the number of viewers, incorporating an analysis table on the set for several weeks, the format has not managed to settle on the Cuatro grid and it will say goodbye definitively next Monday, July 31, closing the television season already in midsummer.
Focus came to television on March 6, with an edition dedicated to the religious musical group Flos Mariae, and gathering more than 6% of the audience. The first program had a great promotion in the different Mediaset spaces and helped boost it, although the audience quickly suffered and fell to almost half in its second installment.
The space barely reaches half a million viewers on average and, despite having been one of the great bets of the season for Cuatro, it has not achieved the objectives set by the communication group. It is, therefore, a new setback for La fábrica de tele, a production company already affected by the cancellations of Sálvame and Deluxe, and whose future at Mediaset continues to be uncertain.
