Starting this week, La 1 will start searching for the most relevant and admired person in Spain. Public television broadcast live for the first time ‘The best in history’ same friday, 16 Februarystarting from here 10:00 in the afternoon. At the helm is Silvia Intxaurrondo.
The program will compete with other offerings such as: ‘Challenge’The leading program in its home on Antena 3. will be measured at the same time ‘Friday!’The show presented by Bea Archidona and Santi Acosta in prime time on Telecinco.
Intxaurrondo will be Accompanied by famous collaborators and experts in every field will discuss the career, genius, virtues and legacy of the most influential people.
Today, the Spaniards themselves will decide who will be “the best in history”. A selection of 50 characters. Among them are scientists, artists, communicators, athletes, politicians or writers, from Christopher Columbus to Rosalía de Castro, Isabel II, Pablo Picasso, Ramón y Cajal, Amancio Ortega or Fernando Alonso.
The 50 characters are divided into five groups. 10 finalists from each will be presented in each program. Over the course of six episodes, the program will propose a weekly online vote to choose between the two heroes who receive the most votes from each group and will face off in a duel.
From each program, there will be a finalist who is the audience’s favorite. The five characters with the most votes from previous programs will compete in the finale and only one of them will stand out as ‘The best in history’.
Produced by The Pool, this film is a Spanish adaptation of the successful BBC format called ‘The 100 Greatest Britons’. There are more than 30 editions in countries such as Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Finland, Portugal or Argentina.
This will be the first program
The candidates for the first program are as follows: Federico García Lorca, Lola Flores, Andrés Iniesta, Emilio Aragón, Rosalía de Castro, Francisco de Goya, Hernán Cortés, Ferran Adrià, Agustina de Aragón and Fernando Alonso. One of them will qualify for the finals in the first program.
Silvia will be on the set with Intxaurrondo Anibal Gomez. Comedian, actor and singer has been appearing in the audiovisual industry in series, films and television programs for nearly 20 years. He will be responsible for representing the average Spaniard and will provide all the reactions and opinions from social networks and the public present on the set.
Also, another collaborator from the digital world: charlyokeiPioneering content creator in the field of street journalism on TikTok with over seven million followers, known on social networks as @charlyokei Super-Geografía- He will be the face of the program on the street. He will be responsible for measuring, in a natural, entertaining and charismatic way, what young people and not-so-young people know about the heroes of our history.