The pre-world aroma invites football analogies with more fervor than in other times. In this picture, imagine it open TV is a field and a game is played in homage to fiction: that of Argentina against that of the rest of the world. Well, not playable. We would have two players against a great team who, on top of that, would be able to put together a bench of substitutes.

Far away are the heydays of stripes or national units in the air channels. Many blame the advance of streaming, others to the lack of ideas, most to the pandemic or programmers or producers who do not dare to take risks. Y in almost all theories the word “crisis” is labeled..

Download the guilt there is like take a penalty without a goalkeeper: most likely it will be a goal. It does not fail. The country’s economy is on fire and, faced with this scenario, it is difficult to imagine a revival of fiction in a traditional way. And in quantity.

However, the second season of Argentina, land of love and revenge (from Polka to El Trece) is underway, with some chance of coming out this year, as remote as possible.

Y there are other titles around with the intention that the small screen – already expanded to seven stations, with the new addition of Bravo TV- it seems once upon a time. At least as far as the offer is concerned own stories that awaken the imagination of others.

One (or two) against all

Currently, a “own stories” they would have three s remaining. Of the almost “new” there is only one, it goes once a week, it is called post mortem and sometimes the titles speak for themselves.

The 2020 miniseries starring Julieta Zylberberg, Alejandro Awada and Esteban Pérez, which airs Thursday at 11pm on Public TV (the sixth of its eight episodes just aired), achieve an average of 0.4 (points) of evaluation. A the points would save even one.

And then there is Telefe’s stainless joker, Married with childrendating back to 2005, but its umpteenth iteration, 17 years later, continue to pay for the channel on weekends. This Saturday was the second most watched of the day, averaging 8.2.

They would therefore be the two only local credits that could currently play the tribute gamebecause the rest of the genres available are formed with reality shows, entertainment cycles, magazines, newspapers, news programs … E the blissful pretense was piled up in the cans gondola, literally. There are something for everyone, even if, apparently, not everyone likes them.

At the top of the phenomenon of television import are the Turks, to which Telefe knows how to extract the juice so well -and also-. He leaves early Hercai and the substitute will be of the same origin: he will arrive Family love in the evening, at a time to be defined.

The third most viewed of August was fugitivethe Turkish soap opera that ended last month to give it its coveted space on early evening to the Brazilian Genesisthe second most viewed in the monthly ranking, with 12.5 points, behind Argentina’s La Voz, all on the same screen.

Rest of the world team

The successful reality of the mega-production in Rio de Janeiro, with a biblical background, it is not that of all foreign plots. They also had their heyday here in the 80s and 90s. Now they are imposed, no doubt, for quantity and this makes them a phenomenon, but not everyone has something good to say.

The point is that the channels are cheaper. And, at fairs, many are sold packagelike in supermarkets. Something like ‘There is a can we all want, but if you want it take this waste too‘.

But, as has already been written about tastes, now we will not enter the criticisms of each soap opera, but rather with which the players wins the tug-of-war fiction that comes in bulk (most go for the umpteenth repeat) from various airports, to gain a foothold on three channels: Telefe, Net TV and Bravo TV.

In the leader, from Monday to Friday and from 4.15 pm to 8.00 pm, The Turkish soap operas that open the game with Hercai are tied togetherat 17 he arrives Our eternal loveat 18 it is the turn of Dream about you and at 19 Zuleyha. The long marathon with an average of 7 points and salutes at 20 with a floor that is around 9. E at 21:30 flag change: Brazil enters the stadiumfrom the hand of Genesis.

Net TV, which at this point already has a more balanced grid than at the beginning, puts the Venezuelan my fat beauty at 4:30 pm, then there is some sort of western Italian (who has Argentine faces, wilderness), and at 9 pm it broadcasts Empirewhich has already paraded on other screens. They move between 0.3 and 0.6 daily evaluation.

And from 10:15 pm to 11:30 pm The Lord of Heaven, registered in Mexico, which raises the channel’s rating bar. Indeed it was his most watched program of August, with an average of 0.6. And on weekends it comes back to wilderness (Saturday from 2.30pm to 6.30pm) e The Lord of Heaven (Sunday from 2.30pm to 8pm).

The seventh air signal, Bravo TV, which started broadcasting on March 14 this year, she has her big bra in the cans. Beyond some changes due to the adaptation, he opens his fiction series at 6 am, with the Mexican distilled loveat 7 on nurses -that serve in Colombia-, at 9 we see (once again and they leave …) Emerald and at 10 the Brazilian airs love without limits.

When it ends, the main dish of the canal is servedanother repeated figure from the soap opera album: Brazil Avenuethat was inside the top of the station during the August survey, with 0.2 on average. Both that production and the others they raise their votes in the evening and night broadcasts.

at 14:00 distilled loveat 15 they return nursesat 16:00 love without limitsat 18 tries to shine Emeraldat 19 it resumes Brazil Avenue (in the morning it moves between 0.1 and 0.2, then it is at 0.3) and at 21 the Colombian lands Revenge of Analia. At 10 pm the Romanian appears in the name of honor (usually does not take off from 0.0) and at 23 it returns love without limits.

Saturdays from 6 to 8 in the morning has The heirs of the mountain, an American and Colombian co-production that barely reaches 0.1. again at 8 Emeraldthen a marathon Brazil Avenue (from 15 to 20) and another Revenge of Analia (from 20:00 to 1:00). This weekend, this latest compilation scored … 0 points.

Bravo’s imaginary Sundays play again with the cards lined up in the week: distilled love at 6 o’clock, love without limits at 8, nurses at 15 and in the name of honor from 8pm to 1am on Monday, which is when scratch a few tenths. And then the weekday carousel turns.

In total there are 17 original stories, which channels know how to get the juice out of it at a time when Argentine fiction is migrating to platforms in an attempt to survive. I would like to open the TV can get out of the medium (of the field) for the sake of the medium (audiovisual). And everything. Our fiction deserves revenge.