Carmen Porter presents ‘Futura’ in Cuatro, a format that focuses on science, medicine or new technologies
In her first solo project, Carmen Porter (Madrid, age 45) focuses on science, innovation and technologies that help improve our daily lives. ‘Futura’, which will be broadcast tomorrow in Cuatro (10.45 pm), is a format directed by the journalist from Madrid with whom she professionally says goodbye to her husband Iker Jiménez. Both will continue to share a set in the veteran ‘Cuarto Milenio’ and in ‘Horizonte’, a space more focused on current affairs, although he will be absent for a few weeks in the former.
Mediaset’s new bet, in collaboration with Alma Producciones Audiovisual, was conceived by both communicators, who received the immediate approval of the CEO of the communication group, Paolo Vasile. It originated from the ‘Next’ section, with Pablo Fuentes, who they already played in ‘Horizonte’. “Everything we’ve said in that section will expand in ‘Future’. I want people to learn with me. Sometimes we don’t realize we’re living with all the new things coming,” explains the communicator.
The space covers the most recent research related to medicine, genetics, the brain, consciousness and nature; surprising applications or the latest developments in, among other things, the robotics and science industry. Always with the help of expert employees in these matters. “I’m going to bring people closer to the science that we see in very conscientious thematic programs and sometimes we don’t understand,” he adds.
The journalists Pablo Fuentes and Nacho Navarro; Ángel Niño Quesada, Deputy Councilor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Madrid City Council; Laura Cuesta, professor of communication and social media at Camilo José Cela University; and Manuel Moreno, creator of TreceBits, make up his team of contributors.
Furthermore, ‘Futura’ has two regular sections in its weekly appointment: ‘Noticias Futura’, in which Carmen Porter and Pablo Fuente offer the latest news about science, avant-garde and technological progress; and ‘Future Apps’, which unveils new, advanced and surprising applications designed for ‘smartphones’, tablets and other mobile devices that make life easier for users.
A new program that arrives, as he confesses, after earning the respect of the public and many professionals for the treatment he, along with Iker Jiménez, gave to the coronavirus during the first weeks after its rise in China. “We used to be the ones with the UFOs, the ghosts and the ones with a little bit of weird subjects. We have gained credibility as a result of the pandemic, which has made people phenomenally accepting of ‘Futura’,” he says.
Porter says doctors are approaching them to thank them for “opening their eyes” with the coronavirus. He assures that he realized that with the pandemic there was going to be “a really big one” when “very strange things started happening in China that no one was paying attention to.” They contacted up to nine doctors and transferred Covid severity to their program in late January 2020. “We did the opposite of the rest of the world. We had that information and we couldn’t keep it to ourselves,” he says.
Despite some describing them as alarmists and others sometimes criticizing them for dealing with pseudoscience in some programs, Porter replies that they have a “very loaded backpack” in the face of such accusations. «It is what it should be; if they don’t criticize you, you don’t evolve. Constructive comments are good because they don’t let you rest on your laurels. That’s why we exist for 17 years. We do nothing but work and try new things,” says the presenter.
At the beginning of ‘Cuarto Milenio’ in Cuatro, he remembers the campaigns that were made to ask him to cancel the program. “There were associations they wanted to take from us because of pseudoscience and stuff. They are people who have not seen the program, because we have always talked about everything. We’ve included history, archeology and now science,” he adds. “I can take the criticism very well, they don’t affect me. With the ‘haters’ I already know I’m counting on them,” he adds .
Speaking about his life with Iker Jiménez, whom he has worked with for over 25 years, Porter explains that they do not separate their professional life from their personal life and that the combination of work and marriage has not affected them. “We get along very well, which is why people are surprised. It’s the perfect partner. It’s not our job; It’s our life,” he says. “At home we get together for lunch and dinner. Before everyone in their office does their thing,” the communicator says.
Source: La Verdad
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