Risto Mejide will expand his presence on Cuatro with El Comité, a new weekly live current affairs program that the network is preparing for its prime-time timeslot. The format will air soon after Horizonte, although Mediaset has not yet announced the exact premiere date.
The proposal will bring together in each edition specialists in politics, economics, science, diplomacy, justice and investigative journalism. Mejide will be accompanied by Bea Márquez, who will coordinate the development of the content, in addition to a team of reporters with live connections, investigative work and testimonies from the protagonists.
An Expansion of the Todo es mentira Formula
The Committee arises directly from a section of Todo es mentira: the Experts Committee. The difference will lie in scale and in its placement within the grid. What until now functioned as part of the afternoon current-affairs program will become an autonomous space for the prime-time slot.
Mediaset España has presented the program as an analysis format based on the professional experience of its participants. In each edition there will be a stable core of experts, to which new profiles will be added depending on the topic. The aim is to combine voices with different areas of knowledge rather than confine each broadcast to a conventional political panel.
The network has detailed the main lines of the project in Mediaset España’s official information about El Comité. The space is already in production and will keep live broadcasting as one of its central elements.
What Role Will Risto Mejide Play in the New Program
The host of Todo es mentira will open each program with an editorial that will raise the night’s main issues. From there, he will be responsible for asking questions, confronting positions and moderating the conversation among the specialists.
That role places Mejide in a position different from his usual one during Cuatro’s afternoon slot. In El Comité he will not only host a current-affairs conversation, but will also take on the selection and prioritization of the topics that will shape each edition through the initial editorial.
Bea Márquez’s presence adds a second presenting figure to the format. The journalist, formerly a reporter for Ancha es Castilla-La Mancha on CMM, will be responsible for organizing the development of the content alongside Mejide, while the reporters will bring information and testimonies from the scene to the studio.
Experts, Connections and Reports to Differentiate It From a Talk Show
The announced structure combines three elements: on-set debate, specialized analysis and on-the-spot coverage. Involvement of profiles linked to science, diplomacy, defense or justice aims to broaden the focus beyond partisan clash and provide context to issues that television often reduces to a few headlines.
- An opening editorial by Risto Mejide.
- A stable group of specialists with new experts added depending on the topic.
- Reporters and live connections to convey information from the scene.
- Testimonies and statements from people related to each matter.
The challenge will be to balance the pace typical of primetime with the depth required by an analytical program. Live broadcasting can allow the space to react to the most recent events, but it also requires building each edition around topics sufficiently relevant and verifiable to sustain a longer conversation.
Cuatro’s Move in Its Current Affairs Offering
The planned placement after Horizonte is not a minor detail. Cuatro envisions a consecutive block devoted to current affairs, with the Iker Jiménez program as a starting point and El Comité as the weekly continuation. The network has yet to specify whether both spaces will share a specific broadcast night or how the final lineup will be configured.
In any case, the pairing points to a recognizable strategy: to capitalize on an audience interested in political, social and international matters and to extend that consumption with a format of debates and reports. The new program is not conceived as a standard news bulletin, but as a space for interpretation and confrontation supported by specialists.
For Cuatro, the bet also means bringing a formula that already exists in its daily programming to a more visible timeslot. For Mejide, it implies taking on a format with more time to develop the topics and greater editorial responsibility than that of a segment within Todo es mentira.
No Premiere Date Confirmed
Mediaset has confirmed that El Comité will air once a week and that it will soon arrive on Cuatro, but it has not yet announced the exact day, broadcast time, or the final composition of the expert team. The initial topics the program will address have also not been detailed.
The key of the format will be how it uses its different pieces: Mejide’s editorial, the conversation with the specialists, and the work of the reporters. If it can give each edition its own structure and not rely solely on the talk show, Cuatro will have a new component to strengthen its identity around current affairs. The next network announcement should clarify when it starts and exactly where it will fit in the lineup.
