Pepe Navarro, Father of night owl TV - The World

After years of unsuccessful attempts shooting programs, night magazine seems to have regained his place in television Buenafuente and Talk to them . But before this format consolidate itself, Tonight we crossed the Mississippi marked a before and after daring with a slot prohibited and a program ever seen. Or rather, adapting such a program that Spain did not know who David Letterman or you could do TV after midnight, but who knew Pepe Navarro.

Almost 20 years after the presenter debut as a writer with The Legend of Mississippi , a review’s trajectory reveals “suicidal struggle between Vía Digital and Canal Satelite Digital, political interests, and envies newspaper who promoted; wars between newborn hearing private television “and so on. For as kidding Santiago Segura, sponsor of the event along with Florentino Fernández as part of the program team, the presenter has an epic story in “a fascinating book if you are interested in the figure of Pepe Navarro.”

Between 1995 and 1997 the Mississippi laid the shaky foundation of late night Spanish gypsy touch to a game with that Telecinco had just dismiss Mama Chicho and now welcomed to The Poison, a quarry comic today continues to conquer the audience and some black (and pink) chronic, but with everlasting commissioning American Scene: host protected by your table and your cup, the respondent huddled on the couch and background, skyline of the city . And followed Martian Chronicles, After the Sunset, Night Hache or Buenafuente , although they merit Navarro removes saying that every program is different and these formats owe nothing.

At over 400 pages this autobiography recounts the rise of the journalist “From radio to television and sardines to fame,” according to the title of the eighth chapter, culminating in the titanic struggle first Mississippi and after smiling pelican to survive this ephemeral industry with a unique slogan: Let’s talk about what happens but will try to laugh about it, “according Navarro has a WORLD.

Why this book, written at times over the past two years, rests on three grounds . “First, because they asked me” . said the presenter “Second because my kids have never seen me work and I want to know what made his father” continues Navarro, giving reason to Florentino Fernández taunted shortly before confessing: “Pepe makes me very jealous because it the only guy I know who has not worked more than it has worked. ” And third, as a tribute professionals who made it possible . Because “there is just a book that has this feat and how the public gratified us with their baby,” adding more than a million spectators that had not watched television at this hour of the night, all the chains to the loaded.

Among them is the same Fernandez, who at age 23 left his job as a security guard to parody Chiquito de la Calzada and Luke Grijander or turborreportero modosito of Chiquitistán Klander Kri spin. A humorist learned profession with Navarro and then mark their own milestones television Informal or Nonsense fair .

“I learned what the pace is, what matters to people, how to condense everything you have to say to go directly to nougat and especially having a maximum Pepe, tell stories. Whether you are true or no, people want to hear stories , “says Flo.

However, the program received many compliments and criticism but Navarro did not change anything. “Of the things that I had to recant recanted during the program. Believe that when you look back can not regret anything because there is no time to rectify,” he says.

Epilogue Navarro leaves door open for a possible return to television . Time will tell if you publish a sequel or not.

Not only the memories of Belén Esteban’s been the role of television. Presenters, pundits and celebrities occupy several shelves with an assortment of works ranging from the novel, the essay through the biography, self-help or recipes. As the presenter Pasapalabra Christian Galvez, who has just published his fourth book, fiction Killing Leonardo Da Vinci . Or Pedro García Aguado, ie coach Teen Big Brother-TV-now novelist rebels Notebook . The clock and radio presenter zapping Frank White has done the same with a pair Father : how to survive the second child, repeating the theme of his first book How to be a new parent and not die trying . The second of Ana Rosa Quintana, Màxim Huerta, won the prize with his Spring fourth novel, The Dreamlife Night , while its companion chain Telecinco presenter David Cantero, repeated figure with The trip to Tanaka . Among them there are also writers , as the host of Antena 3 News Monica Carrillo, who debuted with the novel Candela Light , or news journalist Cristina of Sixth Pardo, who also debuts with chronic political years we lived PPeligrosamente . On television premieres Luján Argüelles A prince Laura and bookstores Cinderella wore heels 15 cm , a book about the search for love. The list goes on Nightmare kitchen in the kitchen . recipes Alberto Whip or four books published b y Eva program participants, Maribel, Fabian and the winner, Juan Manuel