There have been 59 programs that have defined the short, although no less intense, television journey of This is life. Now he says goodbye, between the last rays of the summer season and passing the baton of the afternoons from Telecinco to Ana Rosa Quintana with his TardeAR. The captain, host and presenter of the space that says goodbye, Sandra Barneda, he didn’t want to close the door without first saying a few nice words. Both to the chain and to his colleagues.
Barneda had a difficult poster posted. His program came to replace one of those television giants of which, as they usually say, there are not two. Save me. The path, strewn by lovers and detractors, of the space that Jorge Javier Vázquez once presented found its end on June 23 of this year. The space he occupied had to be filled, as well as the hearts of the viewers. Y The mission It fell into the hands of Barneda, who, together with César Muñoz, completed one of the most difficult projects in recent years.
It was noticed in the figures. The audience did not accompany This is life, perhaps because of the viewer’s loyalty to Sálvame; But this did not dampen Barneda’s desire to fly. “Life collects moments. In adventures that are always uncertain because otherwise they would cease to be adventures.”, he said on social networks. Between the lines it can be deduced that they have not been easy months, but that the excitement allows us to look back and, proudly, smile at the stage.
Direct and sincere. “This is life He has fulfilled all the letters of his name. A program that started with the burden of replacing one that was great and knew that its objective would be none other than to replace the one that would come to stay.. We have tested, reformed and redone live, non-stop… While we all knew each other…”, Barneda said; Then he finishes with a play on words: “like life itself that is never the same, that is molded and you are owed to the same unexpected turns it takes.”
“It was something of ours”
“Today marks the end of a beautiful stage, full of complicit looks and of putting all that grain of sand that has made us great in the immensity of the nebulous world of television “You know, everything is relative and depends on the eye with which you see it,” he wrote, referring to the volatility of the difficult universe behind the cameras. She also addressed a few words to those colleagues who accompanied the afternoons of the program: “This is life It couldn’t have been without a team that has gone out of its way to come back every afternoon even knowing that their time would be limited. -I thank them-. To a direction that knew how to sustain the pressure of being there, resisting and coming back. Thank you”.
And everyone did a great job on set. “The first photo is not pretty, but it shows some of the magic of this program. I will confess that it was the first time in more than 25 years of profession that I decided to organize a dinner not only with collaborators. It was neither a company party nor one of the ‘bosses’, it was something of ours. My reason was the need to be in private with someone who has put everything he had into it, always with a knowing smile about the feat we were up to every afternoon,” he explained.
Among all of them, one was more than a companion. She was his squire. “And in this passing and giving thanks I wanted to leave you for last. Dear César, your complicity, your honesty, your kindness, your professionalism leaves a shadow and a trace… Shall we continue, eh? This is life One stage ends today but another begins next Monday. A new adventure that we will enjoy as this profession requires us to do – great life lesson – as if every day were the last“, sentence.
