‘Combate’ prepares its return on RTS after 5 years off the air: people who followed us at the beginning will watch the program with their children in 2024

Once again you hear the groups of young people cheering for their favorite teams on their television screens, the blue and the orange. The treasure reality of competition Fight returns after just over five years off the air and does it again RTS.

The return was announced with a joke teaser, or preview video, of anonymous fighters, but depicted in one of the program’s two signature colors, battling through the city as if it were a vast circuit of games. On social networks, users also noticed that meters of blue and orange fabric had been placed on the walls of the channel developing the program.

It’s official: the Show reality television, born in 2010 and produced for eight consecutive seasons, will finally land in the first quarter of 2024 under the motto “New Age”. Your director, Jennifer Najera, gives all the details of the Show considered the king of rush hour.

Physical competition program ‘Combate’ returns on RTS

What is the background for the return of Fight?

Fight It was on the air until August 2018, until the channel decided to give the brand a break. I understand that the channel’s commercial department pushed the project so that the channel can re-produce it and resume the impact it had on screen, something that was lost due to the pandemic, as happened with all channels that lost their stop national production for a while. time.

Now each channel has its own channel reality show and is the intention to compete with them in almost the same time frame?

No, Fight He has the affection of the people. It is a completely different project from what is seen on television, it is a competition program with absolutely organic people, that is to say ordinary and ordinary, but logically ‘cast’, it has been discovered that they have charisma, angel and of course physical attitude and social to face a television program. In addition to what the rest of the channels have done, RTS As such, it decides to resume national production, without considering competing specifically with them.

Why is this edition of Fight?

The idea is not to return to previous names, because even though the program has clearly gone off the air with super good ratings, with beloved animators, we are looking for new blood in the program, in an attempt to reflect everything that what has happened in recent times is five years without the program. We want to give new talents the opportunity to be the face of the program and not go for the previous presenters who, despite being very fond of them, think it is time to give new people the opportunity.

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Which names have been taken into account when driving?

We have done to pour with well-known people in the field, with a very good and extensive career. The profile we were looking for was a fresh driver, someone you see on the screen and say: ‘that’s crazy, I never thought I would see him driving.’ Fight‘. We want to cause surprise, to be someone fresh, but not necessarily someone young, 20 to 25 years old, but someone who conveys youthful energy to you. The male-female formula is being repeated and we even want to come up with a new language, because the people who followed us in 2018 or 2010, when we first started, will definitely see the first program in 2024. Fight sitting next to their children.

What other aspects differentiate this episode from previous versions?

The show has an incredible set. Before we had three different studios due to lack of space, there was exactly one studio where we played games, there was a room with the track and another where the pool was. Now we have everything in the same place: pool, air games, scale games and more. Something I absolutely could not change, one of the icons of the program, is our DJ Lunita, who provided music and identification to various characters and even to the animators. We also maintain the number of six blue fighters and six orange fighters.

What will the process look like? to pour of the participants?

Just like in the very first seasons, we’re going to make one to pour on an intensely national level. It’s five or six days to pour between Guayaquil, Quito, Cuenca and Portoviejo. We are sure that we will bring out super fresh, young and new talents.

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Their auditions attract a lot of attention, which is enormous, with a lot of expectations. What do you advise applicants to increase their chances of being considered?

That is one of the main reasons why we decided to meet for three days in Guayaquil, firstly so that there is order and secondly so that people do not gather in one day and thus have another chance. Also as producers to have dynamic and fun conversations with applicants.

Throughout our history we have seen so many profiles paraded around. The most important thing is that we are looking for authentic people, who can express themselves easily, we don’t want Olympic athletes. However, it is important to us that they are in good physical condition, which they can then build up to pour. He to pour It starts in January and the program will start in the first quarter of 2024. There will be a few months for them to prepare, they will have rehearsals and physical training.

I’m very clear that a lot of people have expectations about doing it to pour because they want to be famous. This is not that simple. We have so many kids who have come out Fight and who appear on the screen, such as Jorge Heredia, Denise Angulo, Michela Pincay… they are disciplined children, who saw that they love the world of television and driving. But that is not it Fight It does everything, we are committed to doing our best work with them, but we are not going to achieve anything if those applicants are not disciplined people and with a lot of humility in the way they approach this challenge.