The revolution that was televised (and produced by Movistar+) | Television

That victory has many parents, but defeat is orphan is a common place that is repeated by repeated. Something similar happens with cessations in large companies. One thing is that the farewell person receives, in private, the consolation of his classmates, but in public the exits are usually silent, for a mixture of zeal, prudence and calculation. That is why it has been so significant that more than a hundred film and television professionals in Spain will sign a support letter to Domingo Corral, director of fiction and entertainment of Movistar+, after the announcement for the press of his dismissal.

The initiative has been eloquent on a double aspect. In the first place, by the signatories, because although there are names whose trajectory will not be affected by the strategy changes in any company, others could have displayed that mixture of zeal, prudence and calculation that cited before. They are honored not to have done it. And secondly, because the television revolution that Domingo Corral and his team have carried out in Movistar+ deserves it.

The rise of the platforms has changed television in many aspects, impossible to detail in a 400 words column. The creation of series is now subordinated, to a large extent, to the results accounts of the mother houses of business giants for which we are a branch and, therefore, to the algorithm, which leads to the repetition of formulas until exhaustion. In this context, Movistar +’s fiction of the last decade, with its successes and its mistakes, has been subversive, for fleeing the formula and for rewarding the local. For giving the creators a preeminence, which in other platforms only exists in the nozzle. In a revealing interview last February with Aimar Bretos in Time 25, Corral explained it like this: “The producer’s work is to make sure that the creators with whom they work give the best version of themselves.” Series like Madrid burns, Riot, Poquita faith, The Messiah, Want either Sky blue They would have been impossible under any other umbrella, and today they are milestones of recent Spanish culture. That is his great victory. In that letter, between the lines, you can read the hope that the strategy founded by Corral will continue in Movistar+. Any movie and television lover could not wish anything else.