El Grand Prix del verano

El Grand Prix del verano
Season 15 logo (2023)
Genre	Game show
Created by	Francesco Bosserman
Presented by	Ramón García Bertín Osborne
Country of origin	Spain
No. of seasons	16
No. of episodes	185
Production
Running time	120–130 min approx
Original release
Network	La Primera
Release	17 July 1995 (1995-07-17) – 11 September 2005 (2005-09-11)
Network	FORTA channels
Release	June 2007 (2007-06) – September 2009 (2009-09)
Network	La 1
Release	24 July 2023 (2023-07-24) – 3 January 2025 (2025-01-03)

El Grand Prix del verano (transl. The Grand Prix of the summer) is a Spanish prime-time television summer competition between small towns created by Francesco Boserman and produced by Europroducciones. It was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española (TVE) nationwide for eleven seasons from 1995 to 2005, and on some regional broadcasters of the Federation of Regional Organizations of Radio and Television (FORTA) in their respective regions for three seasons from 2007 to 2009.[1] In summer 2023, TVE resumed the program for one more season,[2] and, due to the good reception, it was confirmed for the summer of 2024.[3]

With the same premise as French television show Intervilles, it features mixed teams representing small towns in Spain competing in a series of games –usually funny physical games played in outlandish costumes, though none-the-less technically difficult, but also general knowledge games where mayors and celebrity godparents are put to the test–, some of which involve live heifers (referred to as the vaquillas).[a] Due to the animal welfare law coming into force in 2023, for season 15 the vaquillas were replaced by an anthropomorphic heifer portrayed by a person in a full-body costume who hindered a team at the request of the opposing team.[4]

The show had a version for children, Peque Prix, a competition between schools that aired on TVE for six seasons between 1998 and 2000 and a special aired on Canal 9 and Telemadrid in 2007.[5] It also had a version for Portugal, Todos Gostam do Verão (transl. Everyone likes summer), which featured Portuguese towns, was filmed in the same studio with the same sets of the Spanish version, and was broadcast for one season on SIC in summer 2009.[6]

On 31 December 2024, a controversy concerning the Grand Prix heifer occurred, when Spanish actress and comic Laura Yustres showed during La 1 emissions of New Year's Eve a picture of the cattle imitating the Sacred Heart.

Hosts

Hosts	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	[b]
Ramón García	Host											Does not appear			Host
Bertín Osborne	Does not appear											Host			Does not appear

Episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally released			Avg. viewers (millions)	Avg. share	Winning town
			First released	Last released	Network
1	10		17 July 1995	18 September 1995	La Primera	3.160	27.0%	Cudillero
2	13		21 June 1996	13 September 1996		3.877	36.6%	Guijuelo
3	13		27 June 1997	19 September 1997		3.160	33.4%	Murchante
4	13		1 July 1998	25 September 1998		3.025	27.7%	Tordera
5	13		5 July 1999	27 September 1999		2.874	27.0%	El Bonillo
6	11		10 July 2000	21 September 2000		2.811	24.5%	Suances
7	13		25 June 2001	17 September 2001		2.837	24.7%	Nuevo Baztán
8	8		15 July 2002	2 September 2002		3.258	30.1%	Griñón
9	10		25 June 2003	3 September 2003		2.875	27.2%	Los Molinos
10	8		16 July 2004	30 August 2004		2.575	23.3%	Falces
11	13		15 June 2005	11 September 2005		2.205	19.2%	Carrión de los Condes
12	14		June–November 2007		FORTA	0.604	12.0%	Ricote
13	13		June–September 2008			0.760	13.0%	Ador
14	13		June–September 2009			0.758	9.8%	Renedo de Esgueva
15	7		24 July 2023	4 September 2023	La 1	1.691	19.2%	Alfacar
16	10		8 July 2024	6 September 2024		1.092	12.2%	Olvera
[b]	3		23 December 2024	3 January 2025		0.712	8.0%	Aguilar de Campoo

Accolades

Tp de Oro

Main article: TP de Oro

Year	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
1995	Best Presenter	Ramón García[c]	Nominated	[7]
1996	Best Presenter	Ramón García[d]	Nominated	[8]
1997	Best Presenter	Ramón García[d]	Nominated	[9]
1998	Best Presenter	Ramón García[e]	Nominated	[10]
1999	Best Presenter	Ramón García[f]	Nominated	[11]
2003	Best Presenter	Ramón García[g]	Nominated	[12]

ATV Awards

Main article: ATV Awards

Year	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
1999	Entertainment: varieties and game shows		Nominated
2024	Best Show (Entertainment)		Nominated	[13] [14]
	Best Presenter (Entertainment)	Ramón García	Nominated
	Best Direction (TV Shows)	Gabriela Ventura	Nominated
	Best Camera Direction	Valerio Boserman	Nominated
	Best Screenplay (Entertainment)	Javier Pilar / Carlos Soria	Nominated
	Best Production (Entertainment)	Patricia de Orive / Engel Serón / Cristina Benavente	Nominated

Notes

1. Season 1 was titled Cuando calienta el sol (transl. When the sun heats) and features four teams in each episode. Starting with season 2, it was renamed El Grand Prix del verano and features two teams in each episode.
2. El Grand Prix de la Navidad (Christmas specials).
3. For his work in ¿Qué apostamos?, El Grand Prix del verano, and Aquí jugamos todos.
4. For his work in ¿Qué apostamos? and El Grand Prix del verano.
5. For his work in ¿Qué apostamos?, El Grand Prix del verano, and La llamada de la suerte.
6. For his work in El Grand Prix del verano, El gran concurso del siglo, and Todo en familia.
7. For his work in El Grand Prix del verano and Un domingo cualquiera.

References

1. "Grand Prix vuelve un verano más y confía de nuevo en Natalia". Vertele! (in Spanish). 27 May 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
2. "Ramón García will host the 'Grand Prix' this summer on La 1". RTVE (in Spanish). 28 May 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
3. "'Grand Prix' will return to RTVE next summer". RTVE (in Spanish). 20 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
4. "Los secretos del nuevo Grand Prix: de las lágrimas de Ramón García a la vaquilla "tocapelotas"". El Mundo (in Spanish). 5 July 2023.
5. "¿Preparan un 'Grand Prix' de niños?". FormulaTV (in Spanish). 11 July 2023.
6. Pujalví, Camila (25 August 2023). "Desvelando los secretos del Grand Prix: una mirada a su pasado". La Razón (in Spanish).
7. "Premios TP de Oro". Teleprograma. No. 1563. 16 March 1996.
8. "Premios TP de Oro". Teleprograma. No. 1608. 25 January 1997.
9. "Premios TP de Oro". Teleprograma. No. 1659. 17 January 1998.
10. "Premios TP de Oro". Teleprograma. No. 1711. 15 January 1999.
11. "Premios TP de Oro". Teleprograma. No. 1764. 24 January 2000.
12. "Premios TP de Oro". Teleprograma. No. 1973. 26 January 2004.
13. Jiménez, Roberto (12 November 2024). "Lista de nominados a los Premios Iris 2024: 'Grand Prix', 'Supervivientes', 'La Revuelta' y 'El Hormiguero' a la cabeza". El Televisero (in Spanish).
14. "Palmarés Premios Iris 2024". Academia TV (in Spanish). 14 January 2025.

External links

• El Grand Prix del verano at RTVE Play (in Spanish)
• Producer's Official webpage
• Fanpage dedicated to the show