page_title: 31 Minutos
section_title: Creation
hierarchical_section_title: 31 Minutos / History / Creation
caption_attribution_description: Español: Consejo Nacional de Televisión de Chile
context_page_description: 31 minutos is a Chilean series and musical band for children, originally created for television by the producer Aplaplac, owned by Pedro Peirano and Álvaro Díaz, and broadcast since March 15, 2003 by Television Nacional de Chile. The name and logo of the program are a parody of "60 minutos", a newscast of the same channel, broadcast in the between 1976 and 1988.
  The show focuses on the adventures of a low-profile news team, where something unexpected always happens. Although some of their reports are quite ridiculous, others are educational and leave an explicit or implicit message. The newscast is presented by Tulio Triviño.
  The series had three seasons in its initial run from 2003 to 2005, in addition to participation in the 2003 Chilean telethon and a Christmas special that same year. On March 27, 2008, the series was adapted into a film named 31 minutos, la película.
  The third season of the series ended on October 2, 2005, and for nine years no new episodes aired. However, producer Aplaplac confirmed in 2012 that the series would return to television. The fourth season was aired on October 4, 2014 on TVN. The last original episode aired on the night of December 27, 2014.
context_section_description: Aplaplac began developing and conceiving 31 Minutos as part of a children's television grant application from CNTV (Consejo Nacional de Televisión). The grant provided the production company with enough funds to produce 21 episodes, as well as a contract to broadcast the series on the National Television of Chile. The popularity of the series caused it to be renewed for a second and third season, with funding from the channel itself.
  The show's creators set out to develop the type of TV program that they would have liked to watch as children. This - combined with an interest in creating something outside the confines of traditional children's television, led them to develop the show as a puppetry-driven satire of news broadcasts. The show's basic premise consisted of an all-puppet newsteam doing everything possible to give the image of "serious news," but always failing.
  As the program progressed, its creators began to expand upon the personalities and storylines of the characters themselves, and the show took on a larger focus on narrative.
  The show is regularly praised for appealing to wide range of ages, transcending the normal narrow audience of most children's media. The surrealist and comedic nature of the characters is often laced with - as well as (with spaces such as La Nota Verde) references to social and political events in Chile, attracting larger audiences among young adults. Many of the characters are pastiches of real journalists from Chilean television, and the show makes frequent reference to events that characterized Chile in the 1970s and 1980s.
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