TVE will kick off next season with its launch. one of the strongest bets of the last decade. The public chain is recording Own edition of ‘El conquistador’Successful extreme adventure reality program produced by Hostoil (The Mediapro Studio), which has been on the air for 19 years on Basque television (ETB). In the transition of this portal to specially developed national television, it will retain its essence as a structural axis, with complex tests and the same team led by the format’s creators, director and director Joxan Goñi and the legendary Patxi Alonso. same producer respectively.
YOTELE went to Los Haitises National Park, Experience from the inside what the production of this venue was like in the Dominican Republic, experience first-hand the challenges the contestants faced, and learn the first details of this edition that will be experienced in style in LA. TVE at 1pm from next September.
Both contestants, captains and presenters (Julian Iantzi and Raquel Sánchez Silva) had to deal with during the six weeks that the recording took natural elements that test your physical and mental strength: high temperatures, steep terrain, exuberant vegetation, high humidity, insects, natural fauna, swampy waters, mudflats, caves, rocks, cliffs or tropical storms.
“Everything you see is real, neither trap nor cardboard“Contestants are racing to win, but in reality, the contestants race to win,” says Amparo Castellano, director of nonfiction content at The Mediapro Studio, who joins hands with Hostoil, one of its subsidiaries in the Basque Country. It’s your challenge to yourselfyou see how some help each other,” explains the manager.
This 33 participants be ready limiting their strategy and decision-making capacity in addition to their physical strength. are divided into three teams: red (created by highly physically prepared men), green (with very physically prepared women), and blue (includes men and women of different abilities). Joana Pastrana, Patxi Salinas And Cesc Escolà is the captains of the teams.those who live with them.
Everyone will have to make a diary resistance or cunning testall climber tested Eric Lopez (The winner of the second edition of ‘Ninja Warrior’ in Antena 3) will determine the conditions under which they will live in the coming hours and In which of the three camps will they live?: rich (with basic needs), poor (with nothing in it), and hell (a deep forest where the ground is mud, branches and different animals accompany them).
The intense journey allowed us to know the truthHE recorded in real time and without any script typeand check this The environment it is in is as impressive as it is complex to manage.: ten different scenarios, several kilometers between them and accessible only by boat, added to the extreme conditions of wilderness and severe weather (which also suffered from the crew of about 250 people), and that within seconds they could suddenly force all plans to change. “Sometimes a hurricane came and we had to evacuate everyone,” says Joxan Goñi.
‘El conquistador’, where contestants are given only water and sunscreen, is presented as the most realistic reality show on television. Food must be earned in tests. “They left without eating for 9 days”says Julian Iantzithe senior host of the program and now shares the task with him raquel sanchez silvaHaving already experience in adventure competitions like ‘Survivors’, she said, “This has nothing to do with any of the other reality shows I’ve presented. What makes it so different is how it’s told, this program has a completely different language. It’s a documented pastime, my job here is different. “The quieter I am and the more heroic the competitor is, the better.”
This contest creators They passionately describe some of the features of this television creature that they created 19 years ago and has become a phenomenon since its premiere in the Basque Country. “We live with them to the fullest, enter the program and even We get excited about what’s happening. Today, for example, one contestant won and gave the other immunity. We get emotional when things like this happen. The best wins here, we never decided who would win, we never cheated.”
The director assures that ‘El conquis’, popularly known as ‘El conquis’, is “a program where we will push you to the limit to find out if you are as strong as you think you are”. And after 19 years at ETB, he made the leap to TVE, which was patiently waiting to be able to record its own version. “They called us and asked for up to three different dates that we had booked in advance. They waited for us and we will arrive in September, which is the best time,” says Patxi Alonso.
Blockbuster fun with wilderness as the setting
‘El Conquistador’ and the participants’ coexistence tests take place in a very special set: a huge, natural, real and wild environment located in the Los Haitises Natural Park in the northeast of the Dominican Republic. Samana Bay. 600.82 km² of beaches, groves, mangroves, mountains and caves inhabited by a magnificent fauna and flora.
In such a scenario, the program team implements and strictly adheres to comprehensive regulations to ensure excellent respect for the natural environment. Before the arrival of most of the expedition comes the work of clearing an earlier site; the tests are adapted to the environment so that nature itself becomes a part of them without spoiling the landscape; The accommodation for the technical team and even the wardrobe for the servers are sustainable and environmentally friendly. It can be said that the working area of “El Conquistador” developed after this program was transferred there.