Channel 33 (CCMA) is reborn with a new image and renewed programming

The second channel of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (CMMA), the 33rd, begins this February 7, a new stage with a renewed image and unpublished formats.

He logo of 33 remains, framed in the iconic window of the chain, although it has been decided to update the entire graphic image of the channel. Despite this renewal, CCMA emphasizes that 33 will continue to maintain its personality: a channel “open to creativity, communication and the expression of culture.” Following the line of being a participatory and collaborative channel, 33 has launched a initiative with schools related to the teaching of artistic expression (graphic animations, music, theater, circus, painting...) so that the students also collaborate in the renewal of the channel's image with the design of various bursts that, starting in the second semester of the year, will be may include in the grill emissions.

The content offering that 33 will release in the coming weeks is structured in five blocks: own productions, documentaries, theater and cinema, and third-party productions. The bulk of the company's productions are made up of the winning projects of the third call for innovative audiovisual projects for the programming of the 33rd. Among the premieres, the viewer will find programs such as Antibodies, a series created with the collaboration of Goodmoment that adapts, in a dramatic representation, controversial and universal social stories; The skin of the walls, a format in which ten filmmakers portray the creative process of ten muralists with international projection created together with A Whim of Productions, y The place, an experiment promoted by Teidees Audiovisuals which consists of bringing together two completely different music groups to play together and develop synergies.

Apart from the imminent premieres, there are other programs that will start a little later: Giant stories (E2S Content), the first television program about popular imagery, giants, big heads and other elements of popular culture; The return of the fireflies (Life&Pictures), a program to better understand the world around us through literature and which is scheduled to premiere at the end of March; A walk through the museums, a slow TV format that will visit five of the most emblematic museums in Catalonia; and new editions of When the Martians come, All the time in the world o whatquicom.

Documentaries, theater and cinema

Regarding the section of documentaries, the program 60 minutes will continue to offer a selection of the best international news reports and documentaries. will do the same The documentary, a reference space for documentaries in 33 and an open window to the documentary world with the aim of showing the best proposals.

He theater and the cine will occupy an important space on the schedule of the 33rd. Starting February 7, the Saturdays of the 33rd will be filled with theater, thanks to an agreement between the media of the CCMA with the National Theater of Catalonia to promote the promotion of the performing arts. After the theater, towards Easter and in the same period as Saturdays, they will arrive Catalan film premieres, with productions that have toured a good number of festivals such as Armugán, Les perseides, Ardara o Terra of breeders, among others. 33 will continue to maintain its space for short films with Short circuit 33 y Workshop short circuit.

Finally, the 33rd will broadcast a wide selection of outside productions. Documentary tops the list The truth about Franco's dictatorship, based on the testimony of a series of historians specializing in Franco's biography and the civil war. Also the epic series Rituals, which uses cinematic filmmaking techniques to immerse viewers in rituals from cultures around the world; Great meals, a format that explores how food brings together large communities around the world and delves into the most important gastronomic events; or the series trips Insòlits, in which the Belgian journalist Tom Waes visits places considered dangerous or difficult to access.