XHDЯbZ. The show was a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 sitcom (Sometimes surreal comedy) produced by Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

 and broadcast by the Canal de las Estrellas

Canal de las Estrellas

Canal de las Estrellas is one of the cornerstone networks of Televisa, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TV in Mexico City. Many of the programs of Canal de las Estrellas are seen in the United States on Univision, Telefutura, and Galavisión...

 network. XHDRBZ emulates a television channel

Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...

 that broadcasts sketches

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

. When a sketch finished, credits were shown, like in a real television program. XHDЯBZ was created by Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio González Derbez is a Mexican actor of film and comedy television. He created the television series of XHDRBZ, Vecinos, and La familia P. Luche. Derbez is also a Formula Three Auto racing driver.-Life and career:...

 in 2002, whose series marked his debut as producer.

The show ran for two seasons since 2002, until 2006. Derbez ended production, choosing to expand one of the show's most popular segments, a Familia P.Luche, into its own hour-long show.

Both shows are broadcast in the United States on the Galavisión network. Today the show is transmitted in Latin America and Europe.

Format

As already mentioned, this show emulated a TV channel. When the show began, the screen showed a notification saying that Televisa handed over the transmission to XHDRBZ. The show began with an introduction assimilating that of a Newscast. Each sketch is then presented as if it were a different show; in the end each sketch showed its cast and credits. When the actual show finished, it would present a notification which said Televisa could return to its usual broadcast.

Musical Theme

In 2002, the musical theme was interpreted by Gerardo Suárez and the music was produced by Suite Sync; in 2004 it was produced by Sensaciones Sónicas and in 2004 Galilea Montijo took care of the choreography.

Guests

Multiple guests had appearances on the show, some of them are:

• Silvia Derbez
• Galilea Montijo
• Adela Micha
• Andrea Legarrtea
• Leticia Calderón
• Brozo
• Héctor Suárez
• Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
• Omar Chaparro
• Silvia Pinal
• Victoria and Gabriela Ruffo
• Adal Ramones
• Vicente Fox (former President of Mexico)
• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Marco Antonio Regil
• Joaquín López Doriga
• Kate del Castillo
• Antonio de Valdez
• Enrique el "Perro" Bermúdez
• Alejandra Guzmán

Shows

These are some of the shows featured in XHDRBZ. Most of the titles of these are a word game in Spanish, thus it might not make sense with the translation. Title in Spanish provided in brackets.

• The crazy monk (El Lonje Moco)
• Filming (Peliculeando)
• Top 3 (Top 3 del Momento)
• Someone explain this to me! (¡Que alguien me explique!)
• Five incoherences (Las cincoherencias -wordplay)
• Medical cases of real life (Medicazos de la vida real - wordplay)
• Speaking White (Hablemos Blanco)
• Section Impossible (Sección Imposible)
• (Calzón que me toquen bailo)
• The little devil (El diablito)
• Eugenialities (Eugenialidades - word play)
• Furxhio (bloopers)
• The X Files (Los expedientes X)
• The Macabre hour (La hora Macabrona-word play)
• (Eloy Gameno - word play)
• Merylin Menshow (Marylin Manson satire and word play)
• 100 unemployed people said.. (100 mexicans said (TV game show) - satire)
• Alz and Heimer (Alz y Heimer)
• XHDRBZ commercials (satire commercials)
• Lifestyles (Estilos de vida)
• Talks of love and trust (Pláticas de amor y confianza)
• Super Goalkeeper (Super Portero)
• Cooking with Mr. Pepe Roni (Cocinando con Don Pepe Roni)
• The Plush Family ( La familia Peluche)
• Adventures of Agent D. Zent (Las aventuras del Agente D. Zente - word play)
• Ask me (Pregunteme)
• Armando Hoyos
• (Sin To Ni Zon)

Soap Operas

XHDRBZ broadcasted certain soap operas, usually satires of real Mexican ones. Here are some of them:

• One of wolves (Una de lobos - Cuna de lobos (soap opera)satire)
• Bread-baker school (Escuela de panaderos)
• Suspicion (La sospecha)
• Trace of the past (El rastro del pasado)
• Between love and hate (Entre el amor y el odio)
• Mary from the neighbourhood (María la del barrio- satire)

Short stories

Satire of classic short stories, novels, etc.

• Peter Pun (satire of Peter Pan, closest meaning: Peter Fart)
• Betty la feya y la bestia (satire, mix of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Ugly Betty")
• Romero y Chulieta (satire of Romeo and Juliet, closest meaning: Rosemary and Chop)

Special broadcasts

• The best of the 2002 Fifa Worldcup (Lo Mejor del mundial 2002) - Feature transmission during the 2002 Korea-Japan Worldcup.
• XHDRBZ First (Primer XHDRBZ)- Transmits arious TV celebrities mentioning the XHDRBZ sketches they appeared in.
• XHDRBZ Last (Último XHDRBZ) - Transmission where the producer communicates through a sketch that the show will cease transmitting for a period of time.