The new Soler Serrano

Television murdered the interview. Like a dog shaking off the water after bathing in a filthy puddle, the long, leisurely interview style typical of figures like Soler Serrano or Jesús Quintero, and disappeared. It was Quintero who gave the explanation in a recent talk with the poet Jesús F. Úbeda, author of the stupendous bunch of verses Estado incivil (Huerga y Fierro) and one of the best interviewers in the written press today. Quintero told him that he stopped being on television because television no longer trusts people like him, that is to say, of the long breaths and the deep cares. The dogma of the format is that the spectators, who are idiots, they only accept dizzying pace, festive lightness or aggressiveness. From there come, with some honorable exception, all the types of interviews that can be seen on TV, from a dogma.

Would today’s audience support a quiet interview lasting one or two hours with little famous figures such as an anthropologist, a scientist or an intellectual, like the ones that Soler Serrano did? Any television manager would throw out the window at the producer who proposed a similar format, but The internet has amended the flat to corporate smarties.

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Millions of people enganchan a Twitch, where kids in ergonomic chairs pick up the pace and stay quiet, focused on a video game, or interrupt what they were saying because one follower gives another a subscription. You don’t need scenery, money, planning, or famous faces to create a successful audiovisual project. And the same goes for interviews. YouTube shows and podcasts have resurrected a genre that the hysterical rush of the media had shattered.

The interviews of Alex Fidalgo on ‘Whatever you say’, Javier Aznar on ‘Hotel Jorge Juan’, Ricardo Moya on ‘The meaning of beer ‘ O Miguel Iribar on ‘Changing third’ these are just a few examples that there is an audience for the endless, relaxed conversations around long-exiled topics on television in general and some large radio networks in particular. Without the tyranny of the advertising cut and the corset of competitiveness in the slots, without tight rides, without current hysterics, what has been anathema in traditional formats can be offered: depth. And the audience rewards it.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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