Las noticias del guiñol
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Las noticias del guiñol was a satirical
news programme that aired on Canal+
(since 1995) and Cuatro (since 2005) in Spain
. It is somewhat based on a similar programme airing on its sister Canal+ network in France
, Les Guignols de l'info
, in that it features latex
puppets.
Latex casts may be shared among countries with local celebrities being used as anonymous citizens in foreign shows.
It was initially hosted by the puppets of Marta Reyero and Hilario Pino, the real hosts of the channel daily news. Later, its host was a facsimile of Michael Robinson, an English
-born football
pundit; and in the final seasons it was conducted by the puppet of Iker Jiménez
(a presenter of the channel).
While Penélope Cruz
has made some appearances, the program generally focuses on prominent athletes and political figures. Among other figures, the program features Pau Gasol
, Raúl
, Luis Aragonés
, Florentino Pérez
, Joan Laporta
, Fernando Alonso
, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
, Mariano Rajoy
, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
, José Bono, Pasqual Maragall, and Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira
. International figures who regularly appear include David Beckham
, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho
, Samuel Eto'o
, Louis Van Gaal
(who instead of a head has a cube made of bricks, probably an allusion to his well-known stubbornness) George W. Bush
, Condoleezza Rice
, Tony Blair
, Silvio Berlusconi
and Pope Benedict XVI
.
Historically, prominent characters have included Felipe González
(occasionally appearing as Cantinflas
), José María Aznar
and Jordi Pujol.
One of the most often quoted phrases attributed to former prime minister
José María Aznar - "¡España va bien!" (literally "Spain is doing well").
While most programmes on Canal+ were scrambled for non set-top box
subscribers, Las noticias del guiñol was broadcast unscrambled.
In November 2005 Canal+ ceased to exist as a partially encrypted terrestrial television
channel (although it continued to exist on the Digital+ satellite platform
). It was replaced by Spain's fifth national terrestrial channel Cuatro, the newest member of Jesús de Polanco
's Sogecable
media empire. Although the guiñoles were one of the very few programmes to make the transition from Canal+ to Digital+, the programme was rebranded
for the new channel as Los guiñoles de Canal+. The programme started being shown on the free-to-air
channel Cuatro. Since 2006, they were included as a section in the late-night show "Noche Hache". Its production ceased at the same time as that show, in july 2008.
The programme has won "Premio Ondas", the most prestigious TV prize in Spain to the scriptwritters: Fidel Nogal and Gonzalo Tegel.
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
news programme that aired on Canal+
Canal+ Spain
Canal+ 1, formerly known simply as Canal+ is a Spanish commercial television channel, launched in September 1990 on terrestrial television frequencies. The channel is operated by Sogecable. The main staples of Canal+ 1 are Spanish football, bullfighting and recent movies.In 1997 new channels using...
(since 1995) and Cuatro (since 2005) in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. It is somewhat based on a similar programme airing on its sister Canal+ network in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Les Guignols de l'info
Les Guignols de l'info
Les Guignols de l'info is a satirical latex puppet show broadcast on Canal+, a French subscription-based television channel. Hosted by a puppet facsimile of TF1 news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Les Guignols is similar to the 1984–1996 British show Spitting Image...
, in that it features latex
Latex
Latex is the stable dispersion of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium. Latexes may be natural or synthetic.Latex as found in nature is a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants . It is a complex emulsion consisting of proteins, alkaloids, starches, sugars, oils, tannins, resins,...
puppets.
Latex casts may be shared among countries with local celebrities being used as anonymous citizens in foreign shows.
It was initially hosted by the puppets of Marta Reyero and Hilario Pino, the real hosts of the channel daily news. Later, its host was a facsimile of Michael Robinson, an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
-born football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
pundit; and in the final seasons it was conducted by the puppet of Iker Jiménez
Íker Jiménez
Iker Jiménez Elizari is a Spanish journalist.He was born in Vitoria, and has a bachelor's degree in journalism from both the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the European University....
(a presenter of the channel).
While Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón , to critical acclaim...
has made some appearances, the program generally focuses on prominent athletes and political figures. Among other figures, the program features Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol Sáez is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . He was born to Marisa Sáez and Agustí Gasol, and he spent his childhood in Spain...
, Raúl
Raul
Raul and Raúl are the Portuguese and Spanish forms of the Germanic given name Ralph. They are cognates of the French Raoul, but are unrelated to the Indian name Rahul.Raul and Raúl may refer to:...
, Luis Aragonés
Luis Aragonés
José Luis Aragonés Suárez , usually referred to as Luis Aragonés and sometimes simply as Luis, is a former Spanish footballer and national coach....
, Florentino Pérez
Florentino Pérez
Florentino Pérez Rodríguez is a Spanish businessman, civil engineer, former politician, and current president of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, as well as ACS...
, Joan Laporta
Joan Laporta
Joan Laporta i Estruch is a Spanish politician and former president of Futbol Club Barcelona between 2003 and 2010.Laporta is a lawyer with his own firm, Laporta & Arbós, which has important firms as clients. Laporta was married to Constanza Echevarría and has three sons, Pol, Guillem and Jan...
, Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari....
, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he will not stand for re-election in 2012...
, Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish People's Party politician and is the Prime Minister-elect since 20 November 2011. He will be sworn into office in mid-December 2011....
, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz, LLD is a Spanish Valencian Socialist politician. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidency and Cabinet Spokesperson in the government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...
, José Bono, Pasqual Maragall, and Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira
Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira
Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira was the Vice-president of the Catalan Government from 2006 to 2010. From 1996 to 2008 he was the leader of ERC Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya ....
. International figures who regularly appear include David Beckham
David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...
, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira , commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Flamengo and the Brazilian national team as an attacking midfielder or forward. He is a two-time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year, awarded to the best player over the year...
, Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team.Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy...
, Louis Van Gaal
Louis van Gaal
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal OON is a Dutch football manager formerly in charge of Ajax, Netherlands, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich...
(who instead of a head has a cube made of bricks, probably an allusion to his well-known stubbornness) George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush...
, Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
, Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...
and Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
.
Historically, prominent characters have included Felipe González
Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.-Early life:Felipe was...
(occasionally appearing as Cantinflas
Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes , was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin...
), José María Aznar
José María Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation.-Early life:...
and Jordi Pujol.
One of the most often quoted phrases attributed to former prime minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
José María Aznar - "¡España va bien!" (literally "Spain is doing well").
While most programmes on Canal+ were scrambled for non set-top box
Set-top box
A set-top box or set-top unit is an information appliance device that generally contains a tuner and connects to a television set and an external source of signal, turning the signal into content which is then displayed on the television screen or other display device.-History:Before the...
subscribers, Las noticias del guiñol was broadcast unscrambled.
In November 2005 Canal+ ceased to exist as a partially encrypted terrestrial television
Terrestrial television
Terrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which does not involve satellite transmission or cables — typically using radio waves through transmitting and receiving antennas or television antenna aerials...
channel (although it continued to exist on the Digital+ satellite platform
Satellite television
Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...
). It was replaced by Spain's fifth national terrestrial channel Cuatro, the newest member of Jesús de Polanco
Jesús de Polanco
Jesús Polanco Gutiérrez, also known as Jesús de Polanco was a businessman from Spain who built a considerable media empire...
's Sogecable
Sogecable
PRISA Televisión, S.A.U is the leading pay TV company in Spain, created in 1989 and controlled by PRISA. It was the first company to introduce interactive systems and specially Digital Television in Spain...
media empire. Although the guiñoles were one of the very few programmes to make the transition from Canal+ to Digital+, the programme was rebranded
Rebranding
Rebranding is the creation of a new name, term, symbol, design, or a combination of them for an established brand with the intention of developing a differentiated position in the mind of stakeholders and competitors....
for the new channel as Los guiñoles de Canal+. The programme started being shown on the free-to-air
Free-to-air
Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...
channel Cuatro. Since 2006, they were included as a section in the late-night show "Noche Hache". Its production ceased at the same time as that show, in july 2008.
The programme has won "Premio Ondas", the most prestigious TV prize in Spain to the scriptwritters: Fidel Nogal and Gonzalo Tegel.
See also
- Txoko-Latex, an earlier show featuring latex puppets of Basque politicians in Euskal TelebistaEuskal TelebistaEuskal Irrati Telebista is the Basque Country's public broadcast service. Its main brand is Euskal Telebista ....
.