The Summer Grand Prix, a very popular program in the 1990s, is one of those formats whose return has been talked about for years without actually taking place. Until now. This Thursday, RTVE’s board of directors approved the production of a new edition of the competition, which will return this summer “with well-established and representative tests that we all remember and other new ones,” the company says in a statement.
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One of the main innovations that it includes will be the absence of the classic heifers, used in some tests and which have been one of the hallmarks of the room, so much so that they appeared on the program logo. Alternatives are now being sought to make up for their absence. The chain has not yet indicated if Ramón García will return to headline the space, as has been the case in most editions of the program in its previous phase.
Produced by RTVE in collaboration with EuroTV Producciones, the family format returns to TVE 18 years after its last broadcast on the public channel. It premiered on La 1 in 1995 and aired continuously every summer until 2005. Later, between 2007 and 2009, it appeared on the FORTA channels with Bertín Osborne as presenter.
In its new phase, the program will once again face two cities from different parts of Spain, whose representatives will compete in different events to unite viewers of all ages on the screen. It is not yet known who will present them.
Before RTVE confirmed this return, the communicator Ibai Llanos and Ramón García had already spoken about the intention to reclaim the space in some way, but the attempt did not materialize and it will be the public channel that has revived this classic television the Challenge to win back adult audiences through nostalgia and attract the new generations with games with a traditional flair.
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