Mock TVE schedules if PP-VOX win in Spain

The idea of renaming TVE shows to mock the right is a parody circulating on forums. There is no official announcement from PP or VOX about changes to the public broadcaster's schedule.

Spanish public television has been at the centre of political bickering for years. Every time the government changes, faces change, shows change and the tone changes. That is nothing new. What does stand out is the notion of imagining what would happen if **PP** and **VOX** reached Moncloa and decided to apply the same medicine they denounce.

## Parody as a mirror of the culture war

The proposal doing the rounds is not a real plan. It is an exercise in irony. It takes current **TVE** shows and turns them on their head with names that ridicule the right. Thus **Órbita Laika**, **Cara al show** or **Al cielo con ella** become examples of the slanted tone some perceive.

The joke goes further. Titles such as **La pasión aria**, **Ya hemos pasao** or **Viva la caena 1** are imagined, hosted by well-known figures from the right's media ecosystem. It is a way of pointing out that public television has also been an ideological battleground.

## Names designed to provoke

The proposed titles are not innocent. **Sí es sí**, **¡La ducha sigue!** or **El pueblo ungido** play on recent political references. The intention is clear: to return the affront with the same weapons. The parody does not seek to inform, it seeks to make people uncomfortable.

The fact that these names circulate says a lot about the climate. Public television ceases to be a neutral service and becomes a trophy. Whoever governs uses it, whoever loses criticises it. And meanwhile, the ordinary viewer keeps watching TV or looks elsewhere.

## What lies behind the noise

There is no formal proposal from **PP** or **VOX** to change the names of **TVE** shows. What there is, is an exercise in political imagination that reflects real discontent. The debate over the bias of public television is not new, but every electoral cycle revives it.

**TVE**'s schedule is a thermometer of Spanish politics. Names change, presenters change, but the feeling that public TV belongs to whoever is in power never goes away. The parody only makes it more visible.