El Hormiguero

[5] He eventually an accepted an offer to move to Antena 3, when Mediaset España refused to meet the €90,000 per episode fee that 7yAcción proposed.

This show continued until June 2007, when Pablo Motos announced that he would be leaving the program to allow the daily production of El Hormiguero.

The show also airs parodies of other media, which have included Back to the Future, Pop Idol, House M.D., and Mission: Impossible.

When Jorge Salvador appeared on the show in 2020, he revealed that Trancas and Barrancas were originally intended to be sock puppets, until Pablo suggested they should be ants.

The show first received international attention in 2006 for having people walk across a swimming pool filled with a non-Newtonian fluid, a suspension of cornstarch and water called oobleck, that was mixed in a cement truck.

As told in the 16 January broadcast, Pablo Motos was offered Santiago Segura's Spanish character on Jack & Jill by Adam Sandler himself, who has been a guest on El Hormiguero on several occasions.

Motos couldn't speak English, so the offer flustered him, but when he was ready to decline it, some of the show producers spoke with Sandler about the idea, reaching an agreement: They would send a screen test with Pablo performing his lines, learned by phonetic sounds.

Motos and Segura (who is a frequent collaborator) decided to broadcast the audition during an interview on the programme, promoting the release of the movie.

[26] The programme has also been adapted successfully in China by Hunan Television (though it has been suggested by producers that the local network haven't paid for the rights).