El intermedio

Cast

Presenters

El Gran Wyoming (The Great Wyoming in Spanish)- presenter)-(since 2006)

Sandra Sabatés- (co presenter)-(since 2012)

Current collaborators

Thais Villas-(since 2006)

Dani Mateo-(since 2011)

Joaquín Reyes-(since 2014–2015; since 2016)

Guillermo Fesser-(since 2016)

Manuel Burque-(2011; since 2017)

Santi Villas-(since 2017)

Andrea Ropero-(since 2019)

Sara Escudero-(since 2019)

Former collaborators

Usun Yoon- (2006–2013; 2018 (last program: 20 December 2018)).

Yolanda Ramos- (2006–2008).

Cristina Peña- (2006–2008)

África Luca de Tena- (2008–2009)

Lara Ruiz- (2008–2009)

Tania Llasera- (2009– 2010)

Jianyang Huang "Chayanne" – (2013)- (usual edition ¬international edition).

Fernando González "Gonzo"- (2010– 2019).

Former presenters

Juana Bonet – substitute presenter and Fridays' presenter.

Pablo Carbonell – Fridays' presenter.

Andreu Buenafuente – (2009) – substitute presenter.

Beatriz Montañez – (2006–2011) – co presenter.

Dani Mateo – (2013) – presenter of the International Edition.

History

It hit the small screen on 30 March 2006 in la Sexta, and since then, together with Sé lo que hicisteis... and Late Motiv, is part of a group of programs of this channel dedicated to hot news and related subjects, apart from being, in conjunction with the previously mentioned shows, one of the most watched programs.

It is a humorous program of current issues that started being weekly -(2 hours of duration)- and that, later, move on to be on emission from Mondays to Thursdays -(during an hour)-.

In its first season (spring of 2006), as a weekly recorded program; had as collaborators Javier Cansado, Juan Luis Galiardo and Jimmy Barnatán.

Since the season 2006–2007, as a live daily program, El Gran Wyoming presented the program in collaboration with Beatriz Montañez, Thais Villas, Yolanda Ramos, Cristina Peña and Usun Yoon.

In September 2008, Yolanda Ramos and Cristina Peña left the program and two new collaborators joined it: África Luca de Tena and the Argentinian Lara Ruiz. Besides, the show increased its daily emissions to Friday's night. At the beginning, the program was hosted by Pablo Carbonell. In February 2009, the program counted on the incorporation of Juanra Bonet(who had been co-presenter of CQC months earlier, when the show was retired from emission), in substitution of Pablo Carbonell in Friday's emission.

In September 2009; on the verge of the beginning of a new season, it was confirmed the abandonment of Lara Ruiz and África Luca de Tena and the incorporation of Tania Llasera as new reporter, substituting those aforementioned.

On 21 October 2009, the program started emitting in 16:9. On 3 December 2009, Andreu Buenafuente and El Gran Wyoming, exchanged their programs for a day, presenting Buenafuente Wyoming's program, and vice versa.

On 17 February 2010, it was published the new of Tania Llasera abandoning the show after signing up with Telecinco. In March 2010, Fridays’ edition was cancelled and, instead, la Sexta, started to emit films, which caused the leaving of Juanra Bonet.

Audience

El intermedio has a robust health when talking about audiences. Currently, it has a television rating that oscillates between 8–9%, which is above the average of the channel, achieving peaks of over 2 million spectators.

Its historical record of viewers corresponds to the emission of the Monday 25 May 2015, with 3.291.000 spectators, (17.4% of share), the day after the Local elections and with the visit of the candidate to Madrid's City Hall Manuela Carmena.

However, its historical record of share was registered during the program on Tuesday, 26 May 2015, with 17.6% of television ratings.

These have been the average audiences of the fourteen seasons of the show El intermedio.

Bold: most watched season.

Awards

This program has received numerous awards from the Academia de Televisión of Spain:

In April 2015, it is acknowledged with the Premio Pluma, in the category of media, from the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Transexuales y Bisexuales for its labour against homophobic intolerance.

Content

The structure of the program is simple: at the beginning, El Gran Wyoming says the phrase of its opening:

"Ya conocen las noticias. Ahora, les contaremos la verdad".

(You already know the news. Now, we will tell you the truth, in Spanish.)

After it, appears the header of the show. Sandra Sabatés starts with the news of the day. In the case of the collaborators, usually appears Dani Mateo at first, and showing up Andrea Ropero at last (although the order is not always like that. After that, Wyoming says his farewell discourse:

Mañana más, pero no mejor, porque es imposible.

Finally, appear the credits in which usually are shown the manipulated videos and, at last the Copyright.

The show does not only tells which events have happened during the week, but also how they have been treated by the media. Therefore, current news are exposed in the program, providing also insight into other issues that, without having a lot of impact in the media, are intriguing. Every content is related with the media scene. Therefore, in El intermedio, issues as phobias, civil wars, the interrelationship between the different social groups, etc. are treated.

El Gran Wyoming also talks about the zapping and the mistakes that some reporters discover in the media. Since its first program in 2011, its structure changed and starts a section called "La actualidad en 1 minuto" in which the news and events that happen all around the world are described in barely a minute.

Since the season 2013–2014, this section has been substituted by an overview of the main news without a stipulated timing, in which the different collaborators participate alternatively, with the exception of Thais Villas (interviews), who appears at the end.

Sections

Current sections

Actualidad musical (musical actuality): Iván Lagarto y Álvaro Carmona parody the actuality and transform it into a musical performance.

Interviews with Manuel Burque: The humorist goes onto the street and do a report.

El montacargos: Similar to a Sitcom, in which appear different member of the political class.

Zanguangos: The humorist Joaquín Reyes parodies well-known characters from the Spanish political class, (such as Pablo Iglesias, Esperanza Aguirre, Jordi Pujol...), with his usual manchego style.

A lo Ropero: Andrea Ropero visits different political events as a reporter, to ask them uncomfortable questions that no other channel dares to ask. Besides, the collaborator travels to several countries which suffer a humanitarian crisis, showing reports as, for example, immigrants’ situation.

El pico the la mesa (The peak of the table): Wyoming contemplates the actuality from the peak of the table. Occasionally, Sandra Sabatés also comes to this peak.

Thais Villas: Interviews with different guests: famous or pedestrians; generally on the street or in a place related to the interview.

Imbatible Dani Mateo (Invincible Dani Mateo): Dani Mateo's interventions in the set, generally with Wyoming's participation, that also go over the social media.

Reality Shock: Sara Escudero analyzes with a lot of humor and rigour some global issues that affect society: the job insecurity beneath the clothing industry, the business of the personal information in the social media or why the biggest corporations barely pay any taxes.

Manipulated videos: Even though it is not a proper section, between the different parts of the show or when changing the subject, they are introduced. Some recurrent videos are:

Former sections

Cañas y barra (Beers & counter): Thais Villas goes to a bar with a famous person to interview them.

Sabáticos (Sabbatical): Weekly section where two young Spanish, Pedro and Pablo, from the blog Sabaticos.com, tired of the Spanish crisis, travel to three countries (India, Brazil and Japan), with the main purpose of made known the culture and customs, lifestyle and institutions from Spain; such as its gastronomy, football or Institutions as the Civil Guard.

Las andadas de Usun Yoon (The Adventures of Usun Yoon): Usun Yoon interviews in the street and in crowded events.

El experimento (The experiment): A reporter goes onto the street to make jokes to the pedestrians and watch their behaviour. The experiments are continually changing, but there are several installments of the same subject. For example, some experiments were Destructoras or Qué será lo que quiere el negro.

Amigos (Friends): The guests performed a little role in the show.

¡Qué viva España!: Thais Villas goes to the street to ask about different issues to the immigrants that live in Spain.

Seven Apps: Dani Mateo presents the most bizarre apps invented for smartphones and those made up by the program. Initially it was called: Apps de mierda (Shitty apps)

Animales hijos de p... (Animals sons of a...): In this part, hosted initially by Yolanda Ramos and, later on, by África Luca de Tena. In it, several pieces of documentaries related to dangerous animals are shown.

Franco: A puppet caricatures the dictator Francisco Franco, usually to make comments related to news or to join the guests.

Troche y Moche: Two puppets that appear orange ants, parodies of Trancas and Barrancas, the pets of El Hormiguero, acted in a puppet theatre with Franco's puppet.

Gags and sketches

Current

Portugal and France: Usually, El Gran Wyoming makes some references to its neighboring countries in a satyric way, often highlighting the similarity between Spain and France and Portugal and Spain.

Previous channels: It is usual that Wyoming is humiliated telling his experience related to his expulsion of the rest of the Spanish channels.

Chess: Occasionally, El Gran Wyoming includes this sport into his jokes, describing it as a dull and monotonous game.

Former

Eggs: When Wyoming wanted to avoid saying that word, he level up his hands and, when getting them off, in the lower part of the screen appear two big eggs, making a sound.

Talking in English: When Beatriz Montañez said something in English while she is in her section, Wyoming tend to fixed something that she had said, pissing her off.

Usun is from Utrera: It was a usual joke that Usun Yoon appeared dressed with typical Andalusian clothing, assuring her Andalusian origin despite her oriental features and foreign accent.

President Zapatero: it was a usual joke (after Federico Jiménez Losantos implied that La Sexta was part of the propagandistic machinery of the PSOE) that when someone referred to the now expresidente Zapatero, El Gran Wyoming stood up and adopted a militar position while he places a finger on one of his eyebrows making the popular gesture of the Support Platform of Zapatero.

Ortega Cano against the world: During the presidential elections of 2008, the program emitted a video in response to the negative of the PP to offer a debate televised by La Sexta and which consisted of a manipulation that mixed fragments of the interview to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy with an interview to the bullfighter, José Ortega Cano in DEC, in a way that it appeared a real discussion between them. The video received rave reviews on the Internet and soon the program made more versions with Pedro Solbes and several other politicians, and, once the elections passed, characters such as Andrés Pajares, Sara Montiel, form series such as Quark from Star Trek or Jim Brass from CSI, an English teacher and Bruce Willis, among others.

Franco was gay: During the season of 2007–2008 it was usual that Cristina Peña, in collaboration with a professional visionary, reviews the experiments carried out by Iker Jiménez in his program Cuarto Milenio, where she tried to surprised them by asking if Franco was gay, although they always answered no, that they did not believe it, despite the evidences that Cristina showed.

Windows from Cádiz: It consisted of a gargantuan screen that answered with sexual rhythms to any question that it was asked.