The new big bet Spanish TV has not yet passed the preselection stage and is already giving headaches to the chain. The contest Who’s the Boss? is a “family-size” will face three teams consisting of a pair of adults and a child between 8 and 12 years. The rules are clear: among adults can compete marriage, boyfriends, former partners, brothers, cousins … All are welcome, provided they meet two conditions. The first, shared roof. The second, being male and female. Homosexual couples and single parents, therefore, are excluded from the program, as well as family members who do not live at the same address.
show will be produced by Gestmusic Endemol and delivered by TVE in the autumn. Not the first time that the Catalan company has programs for public television: formats like Operación triunfo and, more recently, Come Dancing or Goodfellas have been orchestrated by this firm. As explained by the website of the public broadcaster, three teams in each program will face a series of tests to get to the final prize: a trip valued at $ 3,000
The format is based on ‘My partner knows’, the success of a Turkish channel
Each of the group members must place a bet on how long or how effective your partner can perform different tasks proposed. But the limitations on participants listed in program databases leave no room for doubt: “Adults may be the father and mother of the child or others with the child, always a man and a woman, who live all them and the child usually together. ” Nor are unambiguous statements of Gerardo José Pérez Meliá, Vice President Triangle Foundation. “It seems unwise, if not discriminatory”
The program is an adaptation of the Turkish form My partner knows which broadcasts from 2012 the private channel Kanal D, second-up in the country with about 9% of the share. The contest was one of the revelations of year Turkish television and came to lead the prime stretch. This association defending the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) considers that, in the Spanish case, it is “more serious than TVE is a public broadcaster, who issued that engages the money contributors to perpetuate a model that is not current. ” Since the passage of equal marriage in 2005, more than 30,000 gay couples have married in Spain, and only in 2013 did 3,102 (2% of the total registered in that year bonds). Last year, Spain totaled 1,707,700 households consisting of a parent and their children, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). Perez insists that there is a “reality that is every day on the street” is not shown in this television format
With it coincides Isabel Martinez, president of the Association of Families for Diversity.: “It’s totally discriminatory and illogical. I would like to explain to me what is the reason. There is a law that allows us to marry and that is supported by the Constitutional Court [in 2012 which rejected the appeal as presented by the People's Party]. I wonder what keeps a family of two men or two women, or a parent and child, is recognized in all areas. “
Jordi Rosell, director of programs Gestmusic Endemol, says, “At no time we played discrimination.” Rosell blames the limitations of the contestants to the nature of the format … and contestants. “We do this so that there is equal opportunity. If there is a trial of strength, for example, is not the same as competition or a man a woman. If there are three women and a man, probably has the best chance to win the Man “he explains. The program website lists potential challenges, such as “Would you bet your father is capable of eating 20 peppers in one minute?” Or “How long will your wife in 15 baskets marked playing basketball?”.
The producer says his company has simply followed the format purchased Kanal D. In Turkey is not approved marriage between same sex and, although there is no specific legislation prohibiting homosexuality itself is officially defined as an act ” unnatural “. “We are talking without knowing the format,” Rosell insists. “This program has worked well in other countries,” he adds
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The producer says that the restriction seeks “equal opportunities”
But yes Gestmusic Endemol has introduced changes in other aspects of the rules of play. In the original version, not participating children. In the Spanish adaptation, in the part devoted to children there is no differentiation between the sexes: boys and girls will compete against each other. According to the producer, for they have thought challenges “in which both can compete and do not feel the responsibility to lose.”
TVE has not responded to questions from this newspaper.
Both the Triangle Foundation and Families for Diversity bemoan the “return” which means the show, and remember that single parents can not participate in the competition to do so unless accompanied by another adult, in which also have to live. “That a homosexual person has no public references to which can be recognized can be dramatic,” added Isabel Martinez. Meanwhile, Rosell says: “This is just entertainment, no more”
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