Double portion this Thursday from Juana Dolores on TV3. The two evening humor programs Polònia and APM were TV3’s response to the very long Zasca played by the poet and actor in an interview with Xavier Graset on the channel. He complained vehemently against Catalan politicians, the Catalan bourgeoisie and … TV3 and accused the station of not having fulfilled its task as public television.
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The sketch show Polònia had already announced itself with a video on the networks that Juana Dolores had performed on the Polònia set. She was imitated by Judit Martín, one of the show’s most popular actresses. The video starred Dolores, who described herself as a poet and multifaceted and said she was sweating to be on a mainstream show. Already on the show, Dolores snuck onto the set, irritated, and told TV3 to do what Marxist TV stations do: talk about her. However, he quoted Ho Chi Min (“The public media cannot be talking about my book if they might not be talking about my book”). And he wished that a meteorite would hit Polònia and destroy everything and that a tank would enter the Edicions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. Poland presented a Dolores confused about her wish for TV3 to talk about her book or not. The viewer might conclude that the famous interview with Graset was a publicity stunt.
APM, the program with elaborate zapings commenting on other images also broadcast on television, limited itself to reproducing a moment of the interview, criticizing its presenter and ending with a brief tinge of sympathy for Graset. An excellent short interview by Joel Díaz in an APM 2021 caused a heated uproar on the networks before he ran into trouble on TV3 himself and canceled his late broadcast. Díaz presented Dolores as a gorilla who has broken into the Catalan literary and cultural scene with two machine guns and enters an antique shop. That’s where Dolores was also sent against the Catalan cultural elite for being boring, reiterating that the truth shouldn’t be told in Catalonia. Díaz also had his share of syrup. Dolores accused him of ignoring who Carme Portacelli was: “There is a lot to do to defend the Catalan, but we also don’t know who the director of the National Theater of Catalonia is.” All in a friendly tone.
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