'Dinner for Idiots' premiered this Tuesday, November 10, on La 1 of TVE with Gonzalo Miró at the helm and leading its time slot. The first installment registered a 15.1% audience share and gathered an average of 1,213,000 viewers. More than 3.4 million people connected with the program at some point during the broadcast.
The public channel scheduled the debut after 'La Revuelta'. For the first dinner, Miró brought together Bertín Osborne, Cristina Cifuentes, Pablo Echenique, and Montserrat Domínguez. The singer, the former president of the Community of Madrid, the former Podemos deputy, and the journalist shared a table where their differences served as the starting point for the conversation. In the premiere, even the potato omelet led to discussions about tastes.
Four guests and a table to talk about what separates them
Each week, the program brings together four people with very different positions on political, social, or ideological issues. Dinner sets the pace of the encounter. As the evening progresses, guests have the opportunity to explain why they think the way they do and to hear how the same issue is viewed from the other side of the table.
The proposal allows time for a part of the debate that is usually relegated when quick replies dominate. Diners can ask questions, dwell on a nuance, and revisit what they thought they knew about the person across from them.
Prejudices are kept in an envelope until the end
Before starting, each guest writes down a prejudice they have about another diner and keeps it in an envelope. The paper remains sealed during dinner, while those at the table talk and discuss. At the end of the evening, the envelopes are opened, revealing the impressions they arrived with.That last moment allows them to check which preconceived ideas have withstood the conversation and which have changed after listening to the other person. The opening of the envelopes thus brings the guests back to what they thought before sitting down and gives them the opportunity to explain if they maintain that first impression and why.
RTVE has announced other tables for upcoming installments. In one of them, Pedro Piqueras, Mercedes Milá, Anne Igartiburu, and Ramón García will coincide. In another, Pablo Iglesias, Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, Begoña Villacís, and Carmen Tomás will sit. The channel has also announced a dinner with Baltasar Garzón, Cristina Almeida, José Manuel García-Margallo, and Miguel Ángel Revilla. The premiere is now available on RTVE Play.
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