It was last June when Philomena Caution refused to present the program 5 am to midnightleaving Ines Lopez Gonçalves alone at the helmABOUT talk show night time RTP. This Monday, everything about the new TV format, which will be at the TV presenter and actress on RTP1, became known. It is called Precautions The premiere is scheduled for Saturday, May 29 at 21:00. 45-minute program will combine information and humor; in each of his episodes, he addresses an important topic of the moment with facts and analysis.
The debut issue will be dedicated to disinformation online– explained the presenter PÚBLICO by phone. The following will address the “war of the audience” in an attempt to “try to understand whether what is shown on television is a portrait of our country” and racism. The third Precautions will seek the views of “experts” and look for “facts” “to determine if there is the problem of institutional racism in Portugal“.
The team of authors of the program, according to the presenter, includes “journalists and screenwriters”, and the team of journalists includes: Marisa Feio, Thiago Palma, Tiago Durao and Arlindo Costa, and the script was written by Susana Romana, Maria Joao Cruz, Ana Ribeiro, Mariana Garcia and Pedro Durao. “The dynamics of the work always go through initial, in-depth exploration in relation to the topic,” says Filomena Cautela. After “several discussion meetings” it is decided what a “topic heading” is, that is, “an explanation of a topic that can reach as many people as possible.”
“We proceed from the premise that complex information and problems can and should reach everyone and that deepening issues does not have to be only for the elites, especially in an era when everyone can have a public opinion on the issue,” says Filomena Cautela. The goal, he says, is for people to have fun and smile while they think about these issues.
The caution precludes comparisons that a program synopsis may offer with a format such as Last week tonight with John Oliver, the popular HBO show… “The only thing we can establish is that he talks about the problems in more detail than others. talk show… Otherwise, there is no great similarity. In addition to developing more than one topic in each program, ”the presenter comments.
Everyone Precautions one or more guests will be presented. Will they come out of fun and humor, as is often the case with John Oliver’s transmission, rather than information? “Sometimes yes, sometimes no,” the host replies.
