Telecinco starts the competition Dancing with the Stars, where thirteen celebrities demonstrate their dancing skills. Antena 3 broadcasts the second event with Pasapalabra: Night of Champions, which brings together the best participants of the program. For its part, La 2 offers a new episode of Thematic Night analyzing this week Advances in Artificial Intelligence. The best of cinema is represented by a powerful and combative film by Ken Loach, Bread and Roses, and by a well-known and excellent British film, Billy Elliot.
“Bread and Roses”
5 p.m., Movistar Indie
Bread and roses. United Kingdom, 2000 (106 minutes). Director: Ken Loach. Actors: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody.
Ken Loach takes a sober but penetrating look at immigration, focusing on the lives of two Mexican women who befriend an American activist. Loach captures her life with a depiction of the staging, the planning down to the millimeter, with which he manages to capture a feeling of absolute naturalness.
“Billy Elliot”
10 p.m., Movistar drama
United Kingdom, 2000 (106 minutes). Director: Stephen Daldry. Cast: Jaime Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters.
Two years before the delivery of his unforgettable masterpiece “The Hours”, Stephen Daldry already surprised with this wonderful drama, punctuated by touches of moral comedy, which describes everyday life in a humble mining town. Daldry's camera follows its residents, tough and masculine, to carefully capture a boy who breaks the mold when he makes his passion for ballet public.
Premiere of “Dancing with the Stars”
10 p.m., Telecinco
Josefina Blanco
Thirteen celebrities will test their dancing skills in the Telecinco competition hosted by Jesús Vázquez and Valeria Mazza. Among others, Miguel Torres, Mala Rodríguez, Elena Tablada, Adrián Lastra, Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada and Josie. Each participant is assigned a master dancer who is responsible for training their student in the various dance disciplines. Their efforts will be tested in a series of galas in front of a jury made up of professionals such as Blanca Li, Julia Gómez Cora and Gorka Márquez, among others.
Duels in “Pasapalabra”: Night of Champions
10 p.m., antenna 3
The four participants, who took part in the longest duels in the history of Pasapalabra, will face each other in three special parts of the program. This edition of Pasapalabra: noche de Champions presents the confrontation between Pablo Díaz, who has collected 260 broadcasts in the competition, and against Luis de Lama, who has participated 84 times.
The advances in artificial intelligence
11:45 p.m., La 2
The themed evening room uses two documentaries to analyze how artificial intelligence is already changing all communities. Cyborg Society paints a portrait of AMECA, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, who manages his own thoughts and opinions and even displays a sense of humor. Later, The Father of Cyborgs turns to Dr. Phil Kennedy, who in the late 1990s implanted wire electrodes into the brain of a paralyzed man and taught him to control a computer cursor with his mind. Kennedy even conducted risky self-experiments on his own brain.
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