This Friday, a new and hard setback has been known for Sálvame just two weeks after its closure. Mediaset decides to lift the Limón edition of the program, which has corresponded to its first hour in recent years, to be replaced by the new series starring Lydia Bosch: Mine is revenge.
In this way, the last ten programs in the history of Sálvame will be reduced to only two hours long, between 5 and 7 in the afternoon. Something that contrasts greatly with the five hours that the program lasted between 2020 and 2021, adding the Lemon, Orange and Banana editions, the latter later renamed Tomato in homage to the mythical program Aquí hay tomate.
The origin of the division of the program formerly known as Sálvame Diario dates back to 2014, when a notorious conflict between Mediaset and the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) led the La fabrica de tele format to take measures to comply with the schedules of reinforced protection for children.
Thus, from 4 to 5 in the afternoon, Sálvame Limón began to be broadcast, a time slot in which the program could maintain a rating for people over 12 years of age because it was not of special protection, and in which there was more freedom to use certain words and expressions. At 5 in the afternoon, the rating could not be higher than that corresponding to those over 7 years of age, so that language would no longer be allowed and the program would be called Sálvame Naranja from that hour on.
Due to the reduction of Sálvame in the slot corresponding to El Limón, the last broadcast of that edition of the space took place this Friday. Before giving way to Naranja, María Patiño, in charge of carrying out the presentation work at that time, wanted to say goodbye to the format forever.
"Oh, the Lemon ends and Sálvame Naranja begins!" Patiño said when the program management informed him that the time had come to change the format. The presenter reacted between sobs and with a deep tone: "Goodbye, Lemon, see you forever! Kisses to Lemon," she exclaimed as she put her hands to her chest. In this way, she has finished the story of a program broadcast for 9 seasons under that name.
