Showmatch
Showmatch is an Argentine television program, currently broadcast by eltrece. It replaced the comedy show Videomatch in 2004, and from 2006 has produced the dancing contest "Bailando por un Sueño" ("Dancing for a Dream"), along with similar contests such as "" ("Singing for a Dream"), "Patinando por un Sueño" ("Skating for a Dream"), and "El Musical de tus Sueños" ("The Musical of your Dreams"). In 2009, it presented "Gran Cuñado" ("Big Brother-in-Law"), a parody of the reality show "Big Brother", a segment carried over from "Videomatch". "Showmatch" is one of Argentina's most-watched programs, and scored as  the country's highest-rated TV show in 2010 and 2011. It has played host to a number of celebrity guests from around the world, including former boxer Mike Tyson and footballer Ronaldinho. History. Showmatch is the new name of the program presented by Marcelo Tinelli, succeeding Videomatch, a sports and comedy show. On September 2, 2005, Tinelli signed a major contract with Artear, operator of eltrece, thus opting to move to the channel of the "solcito" (little sun), where he eventually would set the program since 19 September 2005. The negotiations between the two companies had begun in April , at the initiative of Adrian Suar, director of programming of the station. As background, Suar and Tinelli already had preliminary negotiations in an attempt to moving during 1997. "This is a bet that transcends economics, I feel it is a long-term path that tends to insert the program into a broader platform, which will open more possibilities to Argentine production and international expansion," Tinelli said when closing the contract. Meanwhile, Federico Hoppe and Pablo Prada became the main producers of the program. Since its inception, the program's eight seasons remained to be issued consecutively until the end of  the cycle in 2012, where the program stopped being broadcast until 2014, the year in which the program retakes its emissions. In its first season (2005) and half of Season 2 (2006) the program continued the format of its predecessor "Videomatch", with the famous hidden cameras, music, skits with guest artists, humorous sketches, among others, but due to the popularity of the segment "Bailando por un Sueño" (Dancing for a dream), since 2007, it became an annual competition and the program was entirely based upon this, as well as "Cantando por un Sueño" (Singing for a dream) and "Patinando por  un Sueño" (Skating for a dream). In 2009 upon celebrating 20 years, it returned to the original format during the first half of the year, also incorporating the segments "Gran Cuñado" (Big Brother-in-Law) and "Bailando Kids". As of August it began airing the contest "El Musical de tus Sueños" (The musical of your dreams). In 2010, a new segment called "Baila Argentina" was incorporated, in which cities across the country competed through dances with massive people calling, but after some emissions, it stopped airing in Showmatch because of time, and it became part of "Sábado Show" (a show  broadcast by the same channel and hosted by cast member José María Listorti). In 2011, the show only aired "Bailando por un sueño", and in the last 7 seasons (2012, 2014-2019), in addition to this classic contest, there were parodies of celebrities, politicians and people from the show business appearing to interact with the host and the judges. Production. Performances. An important feature of the show are televised performances made for the start of each season, which dubs of movies or series with a humorous tone are shown, parodies of several films, and large shows of presentation, in which  different musical pieces are mixed accompanied by several choreography parts, carried out by the show's team of dancers and artists from different acrobatic disciplines. These stagings are prepared months in advance to be presented to the season premiere. Within the format "Bailando por un Sueño", there were other outstanding artistic productions: the so-called "special rhythms" which usually consist of acrobatic discipline performances, full of visual effects. For example, the productions known as: Controversy. The show has also been an ongoing source of controversy, and has been accused of sexual discrimination and objectification of women.