Teletypes, pagers and reporters smoking in the newsroom. The first episode of ‘Periodistas’ takes us to a world that no longer exists but to which we are indebted. Mikel Labastida and Rosa Palo comment in this podcast on their impressions after reviewing the first episode of the series, which premiered on Telecinco on January 13, 1998. It was then that Luis Sanz, played by José Coronado, returned to Crónica Universal to lead the local section from the newspaper. The fiction was enormously successful and was the leader practically until the end of its broadcast.
In that newsroom we met veteran faces like Álex Ángulo and Amparo Larrañaga, but we also met performers who were starting their careers: Pepón Nieto, Belén Rueda, Esther Arroyo… In addition to the casting, other aspects are also covered in the podcast such as the multi-camera production, the design of the sets or the important boost that Globomedia gave to Spanish prime time. And it is that if the journalistic profession has changed a lot, the way of making television is not far behind. At the beginning of the 2000s, the broadcast of the series coincided with the phenomenon of ‘Operación Triunfo’ and its audience data suffered. The doors of the Chronicle closed in 2002.
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