Salvados
| Salvados | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Infoshow |
| Written by | Sergio Castro Jordi Gago Santiago González Xavier Navarro Pepe Tienda |
| Directed by | Jordi Évole Ramón Lara |
| Presented by | Jordi Évole |
| Narrated by | David Picó |
| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 212 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jordi Évole Ramón Lara |
| Running time | 60 minutes approx. |
| Production company(s) | El Terrat |
| Release | |
| Original network | laSexta |
| Original release | February 24, 2008 – present |
Salvados ("Saved") is a Spanish news show hosted and directed by Jordi Évole. It airs Sunday nights on laSexta.
Salvados started in 2008 as Salvados por la campaña ("Saved by the campaign", a play on the Spanish title of teen sitcom Saved by the Bell), a two-episode special show covering, in a comedic tone, the campaign for the 2008 Spanish general election. Back then, host Jordi Évole still went by the nickname El Follonero ("The Troublemaker") from his days as a collaborator on Andreu Buenafuente's late-night show.
After the success of Salvados por la campaña, Évole started recording more Salvados por... themed programmes that would be aired on laSexta over the next five months.
In this two-episode installment, El Follonero visited Opus Dei's Torreciudad Shrine, acted as altar boy in a Catholic mass and went to Vatican City to ironically pledge for the canonization of Federico Jiménez Losantos (one of Évole's most ferocious detractors at the time) and attempt to present Rodolfo Chikilicuatre's guitar to Pope Benedict XVI.
Salvados por la Iglesia didn't sit well with several Catholic associations such as Hazte Oír, that accused the show of being a direct attack to Catholic Church and called advertisers to pull their publicity from the show.
This wasn't the last time Salvados openly criticised the Church, as it denounced, this time in a more serious tone, the privileges of the Catholic Church in Spain in the episode Que Dios te lo pague ("May God pay you for it", aired on April 23, 2012).
After being renewed by laSexta for a second season, Salvados became a weekly show. The channel then presented the program as "a mixture of daring and ironic reports, which takes reality humorously, with the target of entertaining." Évole stated in an interview that "the new Salvados will issue different challenges to paint images of different realities with an ironic view, asking the questions nobody asks, with the secret collaboration of anonymous infiltrators, strange situations and near-impossible interviews."
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