Telecinco has already started promoting this week Cuentos chinos, the new space of Jorge Javier Vázquez, absent from the screen since May due to medical leave. The new format will be broadcast next season from 10 p.m. in direct competition with El hormiguero de Pablo Motos on Antena 3, leader of the time slot.
The announcement puts an end to the uncertainty of what the future of the popular presenter would be after the cancellation of Sálvame and Viernes Deluxe and Mediaset’s decision to make the new edition of Gran Hermano VIP host Marta Flich and Ion Aramendi. It also puts an end to the rumors that said that Mediaset was considering terminating the contract that Vázquez has with the audiovisual group until 2025, as the same presenter revealed a few months ago in the program La matemática del espejo de Carlos del Amor on La 2.
At the end of May, after it was made public that Sálvame’s days at Telecinco were numbered, Mediaset announced that Vázquez would be on temporary leave as presenter “due to medical prescription”. A few days later, the same presenter announced on the networks that he was withdrawing from television for a while, that he needed to disappear from the screen for a while “to take care of himself” and it was not at the final stretch of Sálvame or at his final farewell to the chain after fourteen years on the air.
With just a few weeks left until the start of the 2023-2024 television season, Mediaset has already clarified the unknown of Vázquez’s future through a promotional video for the new television season in which the approval and green light are officially confirmed for Cuentos chinos, which presented its pilot a few weeks ago by La Fábrica de la Tele, the same production company as Sálvame. Little has transpired about what this new format will be like beyond knowing that it will be a program of interviews with famous people and that, in principle, it will not focus on content related to the press of the heart.
In the Mediaset video you can also see Marta Flich and Ion Aramendi presenting Gran Hermano VIP; Ana Terradillos with La mirada crítica; Joaquín Prat with Vamos a ver, and Ana Rosa Quintana with TardeAr. There is also Carlos Sobera with El musical de tu vida and Santi Millán with Got Talent and, in terms of fiction, the broadcast of the thirteenth season of La que se avecina and the return of Entrevías are coming forward. The absence of Sandra Barneda’s La última noche and Cristina Tárrega’s La vida sin filtros stands out, two spaces that premiered this summer but with little chance of continuity after the audience data.
