Having a long career and being a television star is no longer a guarantee of anything, but telling people Jordi González and Jorge Javier Vázquez. The legendary presenters have suffered cancellation of their new programs in the last weeks. The first with ‘Square‘ on TVE and the second with ‘Chinese Stories‘ on Telecinco. Two spaces that have disappeared from the television grid without saying goodbye after recording terrible audience data.
The same is happening with ‘AfternoonAR‘ of Ana Rosa Quintanawhich fails to surpass the program Sonsoles Ónega, which remains the leader although with a timid 11.9% of the share. Have the big names on television lost their hook?
From Telecinco to TVE
Jordi González signed his exit of the Mediaset group in May this year, when his contract ended, after being away from television for a few months. In fact, the last time he was seen on Telecinco was in 2021, in the reality show ‘Secret Story: La casa de los secretos’. A few months later he surprised by announcing his return to TVE, first as a substitute for Boris Izaguirre in the debates of ‘Blood ties‘ and then with his own program.
Although his first appearances in the program that reviews the lives of important family sagas in the country failed to captivate the audience, the public network trusted him to present the afternoon show.Square‘. The production premiered on the last Wednesday of September and was canceled last Friday, after only eight deliveries, with very low audience levels. And not only had she not even managed to get close to Sonsoles Ónega or Ana Rosa Quintana, but also harmed the broadcast of the contest ‘The Hunter’.
In this way, after the broadcast of the next ‘Blood Ties’ dedicated to the Guillén-Cuervo, González’s future is uncertain. A year ago, the Catalan showed himself melancholic regarding his beginnings on television in the TV3 program ‘Col·lapse’: “I miss the city and TV3 a lotbecause here I have been very happy and we have done very cool things.
Future without ‘Save me’
For its part, Jorge Javier Vazquez He ran as the direct competitor of ‘El Hormiguero’ with the program ‘Cuentos Chinos’ in prime time access hours. This program marked the television return of the presenter after the end of ‘Save me’ and that he had stayed away from the spotlight for a few months due to health problems.
However, despite the expectation, it never achieved good audience data. The space presented by the one from Badalona premiered on Monday, September 11 with a 9.5% screen sharebut the data worsened until registering 5.8% share, its historical minimum. The nighttime show produced by La Fábrica de la Tele had only ten installments and disappeared without being able to say goodbye to the audience.
In its short life, the program experienced many changes in its content and collaborators. It had the casualties of Anabel Alonso, Celia Villalobos and Bárbara Rey in his team of storytellers‘which replaced the signings of Melani Olivares and Isa Pantoja. “Thank you and sorry for not having known how to find the key to your complicity. That’s the shame I have left,” the program host shared on his social networks. Now Jorge Javier is left without a program after 15 years of being a television star.
Fall after ‘Temptation Island’
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Sandra Barneda He is another of the faces of Telecinco that has faced the audience crisis that the network is experiencing. The journalist had become an indispensable face of Mediaset after a few seasons triumphing with ‘Temptation Island’. However, the channel’s latest bets have not worked out so well. ‘The last night‘, the program that was intended to replace ‘Sálvame Deluxe’, lasted on the air for just over a month due to low viewership. Its average audience share was always above 8% and it failed to win over viewers.
At the same time, the Catalan also took the baton of ‘Sálvame Diario’ to present during the summer afternoons’This is life‘, a program that is now broadcast between the telenoticias and Ana Rosa Quintana’s new program. Although this show is currently still on the television schedule, it does not usually rank much above the 9% share. In fact, it has tried to improve its data by signing recognized faces from the world of the heart as collaborators, such as Carmen Borrego, Alejandra Rubio and José Antonio Avilésbut without much success.