The main national free-to-air televisions have trusted their best-known presenters this New Year’s Eve to close the year and welcome 2022, a night in which they will broadcast their classic Christmas programs.
In 2020, televisions showed how the pandemic left an unusual image: that of a Puerta del Sol completely empty of people and only with Nacho Cano on stage performing a version of the song ‘Un año más’. This 2021, the Madrid square will host a limited audience.
Anne Igartiburu, Cristina Pedroche and even Ibai Llanos are some of the favorite presenters who will begin to appear on our televisions as midnight approaches tonight to sip the grapes at the rhythm of twelve chimes and toast the next year.
RTVE: Anne Igartiburu and Jacob Petrus, Ana Obregón takes off
Ana Obregón and Anne Igartiburu were going to present this New Year’s Eve the Spanish Television Chimes after having maintained the leadership last year as the preferred channel to eat grapes in Spain.
But Obregón has tested positive for COVID, which has forced TVE to look for a quick replacement, which he has found in Jacob Petrus, host of ‘Aqui la Tierra’. Obregón’s positive has made it impossible for the 2020 female couple to repeat itself, which was the first in the history of the public network. They received the New Year in front of an empty Puerta del Sol due to the pandemic.
An hour later, Nieves Álvarez and Roberto Herrera will take over from the Canary Islands, this time, with the solidarity bells “RTVE We are all La Palma”, from the island of La Palma, sheltering those evicted by the volcanic eruption.
Atresmedia: from the ‘boom’ Cristina Pedroche to Cristina Pardo and Dani Mateo
New Year’s Eve dresses up on Antena 3 with Cristina Pedroche and Alberto Chicote saying goodbye to the year again, live and from Puerta del Sol. For yet another year, Pedroche has been creating expectations for the audience with her long-awaited dress. that will uncover moments before giving the grapes and that will leave surprises like every New Year’s Eve.
In La Sexta, Cristina Pardo and Dani Mateo will be in charge of giving the New Year’s Eve Chimes and animating the entrance to 2022, with humor and emotion, also from Puerta del Sol.
Mediaset: Carlos Sobera and Paz Padilla from Vejer de la Frontera
The chain will offer the traditional New Year’s Eve Chimes from the Cadiz town of Vejer de la Frontera, whose “Hazas de la Suerte” are candidates for recognition as Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Paz Padilla and Carlos Sobera have been the presenters chosen to conduct this broadcast, two of the most recognized faces of the Mediaset networks.
Ibai Llanos and Ramón García, the great novelty on Twitch
The couple formed by the well-known ‘streamer’ Ibai Llanos and the presenter who has given the Chimes the most times in Spain, Ramón García, will drink the grapes from a balcony of Puerta del Sol broadcasting from Twitch.
After last year where Ibai got 243,256 viewers on his channel, this year he will try to break a record with the presence of García, who is asked to come with his usual characteristic outfit: the cape.
Special programming after the Chimes
This year on TVE José Mota will be present on the last night of 2021 and has prepared for the occasion ‘Cuento de Vanidad’, his traditional Christmas special in which, with the common thread of Charles Dickens’ story, he will review in an entertaining and fun way The highlight of the year across the board and will take a critical journey into people’s obsession with social media.
In addition, the best artists will meet again in the New Year’s Eve special of La 1 ‘Happy 2022!’, In which there will be more than 90 performances, including those of Sebastián Yatra, Vanesa Martín, Malú, Ed Sheeran, Pablo Alborán, Sergio Dalma, Hombres G, Levi, Pablo López, Ana Mena and Omar Montes, Fangoria, Antonio Orozco, Carlos Baute y Chenoa, Camela, Samantha, Álvaro de Luna, Edurne, Pastora Soler, Nancys Rubias or Niña Pastori, among many others.
Meanwhile in La 2, ‘Cachitos de Hierro y Cromo’ says goodbye to 2021 with a double program. Before the grapes, ‘Santa Raffaella’ will be broadcast, a tribute to Carrà, an icon of music and television of the last half century. From the La Paloma room in Barcelona, Virginia Díaz, accompanied by the ‘raffaellista’ Mikel Iturriaga, will lead a program in which they will feature performances by Ana Guerra, La casa azul, Ladilla española, Soleá Morente and Samantha Hudson. And after the Chimes, three hours with the best of the RTVE archive: ‘Nochevieja a cachitos’.
In Antena 3 the presenters Eva González and Juanra Bonet will be in charge of conducting the special ‘Goodbye, 2021’ before the Chimes. After midnight, the now traditional karaoke ‘Cantando al 2022’ will take place.
Meanwhile, Telecinco has prepared a gala in which Lara Álvarez and Joaquín Prat will present the performances of various artists who have participated in Mediaset talent contests, such as Indigo Salvador, winner of the first season of ‘Idol Kids’, Cristina Ramos , winner of the first season of ‘Got Talent Spain’ Elena Farga, second classified in ‘X Factor 2018’ or Brequette Cassie, winner of ‘Top Star’.
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