LET’S TALK ABOUT TV. “No one dies on TV”

We have seen the rebirth of the former mayor of Santiago, Pablo Zalaquett, the former senator of the UDI, Pablo Longueira, and a series of former authorities from the governments of Sebastián Piñera such as Karla Rubilar, Katherine Martorell, Mario Desbordes, Jaime Bellolio, Rodrigo Delgado and other possible candidates to councilors in various communes.

José Luis Córdova. Journalist. “The century”. Santiago. 1/16/2024. The historic former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stated that in politics no one dies and this truth is easily verified in Chile and also on television in our country. Thus we have seen the rebirth of the former mayor of Santiago, Pablo Zalaquett, the former senator of the UDI, Pablo Longueira, and a series of former authorities from the governments of Sebastián Piñera such as Karla Rubilar, Katherine Martorell, Mario Desbordes, Jaime Bellolio, Rodrigo Delgado and other possible pre-candidates for councilors in various communes.

Rubilar had been hired in the cabinet of the mayor of Puente Alto Germán Codina, the first step in his campaign to succeed him in office, facing the nephew of senator Manuel José Ossandón, who denounced the maneuver that confronts the right in the commune, in the face of who resigned from the position.

Zalaquett today is lobbysta and as such, ministers of state and parliamentarians were allowed to meet with union leaders and businessmen. Everything indicates that the only one who could justifiably do so is the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Jeannette Jara, determined to seek support for the pension reform through a new social security system that definitively puts an end to the AFPs.

Longueira – for his part – intends to participate in the discussion of a new fishing law that replaces the previous monstrosity imposed with bribery, bribes and pressure in Congress that led Senator Jaime Orpis to jail.

The last straw was the resuscitation from the shadows of Julio Ponce Lerou himself, former son-in-law of Pinochet and partner of SQM, who fortunately had the modesty not to appear even signing the agreement with Codelco on lithium. It is understood that he will try to remain in a discreet background, without television.

Meanwhile, the cameras follow the steps of these characters, while figures such as Jorge Hevia, Fernando Solabarrieta and Ivete Vergara – from the last Pan American Games – as well as Daniel “Huevo” Fuenzalida in the contest space of Israeli origin (!) “Now I fall”; Raquel Argandoña, Patricia Maldonado, Jordi Castell, Marlén Olivari and José Miguel Viñuela on TV+, among others.

This station commented on the dismissal from Channel 13 of journalist Polo Ramírez – once “King Guachaca” – and his colleague Julia Vial did not hesitate to express surprise at his statements regarding this fact, because, she said: “When he was manager, Polo Ramírez “applied the same methods,” that is, dismissals that had nothing to do with the professional performance of those affected.

The renewal in the season that begins begins with the former Concertación minister, Francisco Vidal, in the presidency of the TVN board, which some have already seen supposedly expressed in less morbidity and sensationalism when presenting police news in the news (?) .

Meanwhile, incredibly we will have to endure a new cycle of the unprecedented program “Case Closed” with Dr. Polo; the reruns of the spaces “Mea culpa” and “The story of the uncle” by Carlos Pinto.

At CHV the repetition of “The Thousand Nights of Onur and Scheherazade” continues, another downbeat season of “Pasapalabra” and the well-known “Top Chef Chile” contest where the participation of Jennifer “Pincoya sin glamor” Galvarini (former “Big Brother”) “) and will insist on the space for conversation and entertainment “We Can Talk” with Jean Philippe Cretton and “The Divine Food 9”, arch formulas used in previous cycles and the Turkish series could not be missing – in this case – the melodrama “Forbidden Passion ”.

Channel 13 puts its chips in the lengthening of the reality show “Tierra brava”, as well as in the well-known soap opera “Doña Bárbara”, the contest “Qué dice Chile” modified for young people. The relaxed conversation of faces in “Grill Partners” and the “newness” of the North American series “Law and Order.”

In Mega they show satisfaction with the results of the national production “Generación 98” and will insist on other Creoles: “Juego de ilusiones” and “Como la vida misma”, in competition with Turkish series with very complicated names such as “Seyran and Ferit”, “ Nehir” and “Yargi”. And Julián Andrés Salfate returns to the screen with the program “On a walk”, just as the arrival of Fabrizio Copano to this same station is announced.

Meanwhile, important information about the Audios Case with the lawyer Luis Hermosilla and the tax fraud of 55 businessmen disappeared from the news and “political” programs. They only talk about insecurity, homicides, settling scores, drug trafficking and organized crime, especially emphasizing the presence of undocumented foreigners. As if there were no Chilean criminals and – even worse – minors as victims and perpetrators of cruel murders.

Campaigns against mayors such as Daniel Jadue and Irací Hassler proliferate, minimizing malicious actions by former mayors Torrealba, Barriga and the communal chief of Las Condes, Daniela Peñaloza, among others who could follow in the footsteps of Karen Rojo.

Nothing or very little is really new on our open television, with the “ever immortals” who honor Churchill’s phrase that no one dies on Chilean television either. Bernardo de la Maza, Paulina Nin or Kike Morandé are yet to reappear because even Viviana Núñez and Tonka Tomicic herself could be ready to appear on screen.