2023-11-27 19:39:48
The second season of ‘Akelarre’ lasted two months. A brief tweet from Euskal Telebista announced this Monday by surprise the cancellation of the humor and interview space that was the protagonist of a controversy in its first season, hosted by Valeria Ros, after some voices accused it on social networks of ridiculing Basque culture. Nerea Garmendia, Ana Goitia and Tania Llasera had replaced the comedian from Getxo in the ‘talk show’, which last night was broadcast only on the web with Julio Ibarra, Fele Martínez and Haizea Gómez as guests.
Thus ends what was one of the great bets of Basque public television for this season’s programming, which has only lasted six installments. The public entity has not given more details about the end of the space produced in collaboration with K 2000 and El Terrat, which when it premiered on ETB 2 on January 12, boasted of bringing fresh air to the regional ‘prime time’. “Irreverence, hooliganism and Basque culture” were the hallmarks of a format hosted by Valeria Ros, whose jokes reached the Basque Parliament
An edited video that circulated on Twitter linked to some excerpts from the program. Valeria Ros commented that “txapela is anti-morbid” and she asked the writer Unai Elorriaga, who in 2002 won the National Narrative Prize, if he had any prize. She also asked Rafa Alkorta who she was going with in the World Cup in Qatar after Spain’s elimination, while Silvia Abril imitated the pronunciation in Basque. Twenty years after the premiere of ‘Vaya semanita’, the debate began around the limits of humor on Basque television.
Controversy
Bildu registered three questions in the Basque Parliament addressed to the director of EiTB, Andoni Aldekoa. In his opinion, he called attention to “the lack of knowledge shown” by those responsible for ‘Akelarre’ about Basque culture and considered it “painful” that it was “observed and ridiculed from a Spanish perspective.” Jasone Agirre asked Aldekoa if he believed that the program line “conformed to the principles included in the law creating EiTB.”
The director of the public entity responded to Bildu that ‘Akelarre’ “is a comedy program that as such must be understood and is conceived from love and respect for the elements of reference and belonging of Basque society.” “It aims to put these values in the greatest possible exponent so that they are seen and followed by new audiences,” said Aldekoa. After the first criticism, the presenter, Valeria Ros, wrote on Twitter: “Try to get them to cancel me, I don’t care, but you will never be more Basque than a posh girl from Getxo.”
The program began its second consecutive season on October 20 with new presenters and content. The presence of popular faces, from Adela González to Anne Etchegoyen, the contests, the hypnotists or the gags in which Nerea Garmendia has stood out seems to have not been enough to hook the audience and give more life to the program. «Being Basque has many aspects and humor seeks to twist things up to laugh at ourselves. If we can’t do it, we have lost everything! People should relax the sphincter. “It’s my opinion,” said Tania Llasera when taking the reins of ‘Akelarre’. After five installments, with changes in the day of broadcast, ‘Akelarre’, which reached a 20% share among viewers aged 13 to 24, is now history.
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