Before you go through the curtain and enter the Movistar Plus+ set, in the Madrid town of Tres Cantos, where Showriano is recorded, you can already hear the bass of reggaeton, foreshadowing what is to come. Hosted by all-rounder Eva Soriano, the show's studio is surrounded by neon lights, light projectors and disco balls. The nightclub atmosphere that existed in the first season last year was taken to the extreme with a studio with graffiti, LED screens and leather sofas. A fitting setting for the rapid pace of the announced first singing show in Spain, which is presenting its second season this Monday, with one less interviewee and a duration shortened from 50 to 30 minutes.
“It's a half-hour show that you can watch in no time. “There are songs, video clips, guests and a presenter who has an ass that can crack nuts,” introduces Soriano, who is also trendy with his presence on the radio, for example on Special Corps (Europa FM), or on special television shows lies (Eugenio Heu solo one). Showriano, where he sings, gives monologues and gives interviews, is tailor-made for him. “I don’t feel nervous or dizzy. With very few programs he reached an audience that I believe is my audience. For me, Showriano is a concept where there is no first or second season; “It will take as long as it needs to take.”
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The irreverent, absurd humor that Soriano tries hard to create with his gestures and physicality fits well with the first interview of this second season: Belén Esteban. The one who was a talk show host at Sálvame for almost 15 years knows very well how to have fun and function in a television studio. He went on the show to present the second season of the reality show Save Who Can (Netflix) about Sálvame's collaborators, but at the end he commented on the issue of Hola magazine with his ex-partner, the bullfighter Jesulín de Ubrique; about his meeting with the royals and how he would like to see them in private at his favorite nightclub Kapital in Madrid; or that she no longer wanted to be nicknamed “People’s Princess” but is now “the Matron,” as she had tattooed on one of her arms. “We didn’t know each other and you’re one of the people I had the most fun with,” Soriano replied.
Belén Esteban and Eva Soriano in the first episode of the second season of “Showriano”.MOVISTAR+
The lecture is complemented by music with numbers and characters dressed as pigeons or vaginas, in an accelerated rhythm of a program that tries to condense all this in a short time. But speed is part of Soriano's improvisations and jokes: “I am a very absurd person.” Her sincerity is expressed at the beginning of the room, a monologue in which she addresses current issues with satire: in the first program she already talks about Feminism and follows the statements of three women due to sexual violence by the film director Carlos Vermut, published for this newspaper. “Humor serves to relieve current events, comedy must have priority in the program, but comedy is also a weapon of protest.”
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“I think I'm a star of the 21st century, I suggest things, because the most important thing in this profession is diversification.” Of course, he admits that he prefers to perform as a stand-up player, that is, live in one Theater performs. “In a theater there is a contract with licenses where you arrive, enjoy and leave knowing that everything is part of a show. Now, with visual support and video, they take you to a place that is not good for you and you find yourself in situations that don't happen in the theater, which is more free, ideal for a comedian.” However, it is aware that these spaces are a showpiece and allow it to differentiate itself in a very competitive sector.
A moment from the second season of “Showriano”.MOVISTAR+
Showriano joins the entertainment programs that have a woman as host, such as Julia Otero in Días de tele; Carolina and Victoria Iglesias in the podcast Estirando el chicle or Inés Hernand in La 1. Spaces that are given to women, but very slowly, they are already counting drops, according to Soriano, and which in many cases have to start Personal projects. “For two and a half years I went to castings where there were structurally five positions, four for uncles and one for an aunt. “The year 2024 had to come so that we would see women on television and not just in gossip magazines to make men laugh.”
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