Caiga Quien Caiga
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| Original name: | Caiga Quien Caiga |
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| Name in other languages: | Le Iene (Italy) |
| Genre: | Comedy / News / Talk Show |
| First aired: | 1995 |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes (including commercials) |
| Country: |  Argentina.
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| Original lenguage: | Spanish |
| Production: | Cuatro Cabezas |
| Hosts: | - Mario Pergolini, Eduardo de la Puente, and Juan di Natale (Argentina) - Nicolás Larraín, Gonzalo Feito and Iván Guerrero (Chile) - Manel Fuentes, Arturo Valls and Juan Ramón Bonet (Spain) |
| Broadcast: | Telefé (Argentina) Mega (Chile) Telecinco (Spain) Italia 1 (Italy) |
Caiga Quien Caiga, mostly known as CQC, is an Argentine television show, now also broadcasted in Chile, Spain and Italy under the format of the production company Cuatro Cabezas led by Mario Pergolini.
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[edit] Review
CQC is a weekly news roundup that takes a humorous and ironic approach to reporting current affairs, show business and sports. CQC's reporters are known for asking politically incorrect questions to celebrities, which in some cases leads to visible discomfort in the interviewees.
One of the trademarks of the show is the heavy editing of the interviews to add cartoons and sound effects with the goal of highlighting (by ridicule) the interviewee's reactions. Reporters sometimes give controversial gifts to celebrities.
Hosts and reporters all dress in black suits and wear black glasses, inspired by the characters in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Reservoir Dogs.
The name of the show in Spanish is a commonly used phrase meaning "whatever it takes" (literally: "whoever might fall"), as a reference to the unorthodox interviewing methodology.
[edit] CQC in the world
[edit] Argentina
The Argentine edition of CQC is hosted by Mario Pergolini, Eduardo de la Puente and Juan di Natale.
It started broadcasting in Canal 2 (currently known as América TV), in 1995. This first stage ended in 1999, with a special show transmitted live from the Gran Rex Theatre in Buenos Aires. In 2001, there was a special show (made in the same theatre) to announce the new season of the show for the next year, this time in Canal 13. In 2005, Canal 13 hired Marcelo Tinelli, who is frequently argumented in the programme and has been a long time rival of Mario Pergolini. This resulted in CQC (and all of the shows produced by Cuatro Cabezas) moving to Telefé. The show currently broadcasts every Wednesday at 11:00 pm.
The journalist cast in Canal 2 were Clemente Cancela, Andy Kusnetzoff, Guillermo López, Daniel Malnatti, Gonzalo Rodríguez and Daniel Tognetti. The cast in Canal 13 were Clemente Cancela, Diego Della Salla, Guillermo López, Daniel Malnatti and Gonzalo Rodríguez.
[edit] Chile
The Chilean edition started broadcasting in 2002, it is currently transmitting in Mega on Sundays at 10:00 pm. The hosts are Nicolás Larrain, Gonzalo Feito and Iván Guerrero. The journalist cast is composed of Sebastian Eyzaguirre, Fernando Lasalvia and Pamela Le Roy, as well as the hosts Feito and Guerrero. Previously in the show were reporter Marcelo Arismendi, and hosts Felipe Bianchi and Pablo Mackenna. With the show being broadcast on a Christian channel, they are restricted from talking to people related to the church. The show is produced with the support of the Chilean production company Edu.
[edit] Spain
The programme is transmitted by Telecinco (Madrid) since 1996 (except in 2003 and 2004 when the show was cancelled). It is produced by GloboMedia.
In their first stage, the show was hosted by El Gran Wyoming. Some of the reporters (like Pablo Carbonell) were already experienced TV journalists, while the rest started their television careers in CQC such as Javier Martin and Arturo Valls. Despite enjoying a high rating and the numerous awards given to the programme and its presenter, Telecinco decided to cancel the show at the end of 2002, due to criticism made about the right-wing government party, the Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar’s wife and Telecinco’s owner Silvio Berlusconi.[citation needed]
In 2005 the programme returned to Telecinco, this time hosted by Manel Fuentes, Arturo Valls, Eduardo Aldán and Deborah Ombres as the first woman in the cast. The good ratings made the show renew their contracts with the channel and is currently on their second season, hosted by Arturo Valls, Manel Fuentes and Juan Ramón Bonet with the reporter cast of Toni Garrido, Fernando González and Christian Gálvez, having also Arturo Valls as reporter.
[edit] Italy
Main article: Le Iene
The Italian version is called Le Iene, which is the Italian title of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. It started in 1996, currently transmitting on Italia 1.
[edit] France
There has been an edition of CQC in France.[1]
[edit] Israel
The israeli edition of CQC aired in 2001, but was cancelled after one season for low ratings. The lack of success is attributed to the heavy competition by other satirical shows already established.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "TV FOR EXPORT" - Revista Nueva (Spanish)
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official Argentine version site
- (Italian) Official Italian site
- (Spanish) Official Spanish site
- (Spanish) Official Chilean site
- (Spanish) CQC Monography
