It will be difficult (even impossible) for the new season of The island of temptations reach the levels of global virality that it had with the soap opera between Montoya and Anita in the last edition, but the reality show I will try with new rules. The couples contest presented by Sandra Barneda will also hit the grid this Monday, November 3rd (at 9:45 pm) to try to revive a Telecinco in audience crisis, whose only ratings lifeline are precisely the most veteran formats like this and Survivorswhich ended this Sunday with its last debate. Furthermore, on November 6th, on Telecinco nights, the premiere of Big Brother 20which also heats the engines.
As on previous occasions, five couples will arrive at the format with the intention of testing their relationship. The public already knows that things will not always work out. The five couples in this edition are made up of Juanpi (28 years old) and Sandra (23), Gilbert (24) and Claudia (23), Lorenzo (30) and Nieves (22), Rodrigo (26) and Helena (26), and Darío (25) and Almudena (26). When they arrive on the island, they will be separated to live, men on one side, women on the other, in luxurious villas with a group of single men and women with a great capacity for seduction. Barneda described it as “the most delirious season.”
The news includes a surprise reception from the temptresses to the couples: it will be the first time that single men and women will welcome their couples on the beach, which will generate distrust from minute zero. Also for the first time, couples will be able to know who has exceeded the established limits when the temptation light comes on: a screen will reveal the identity, although this only happens once during the entire edition. Additionally, single women will be able to view some of the girls’ hard images on their own and decide whether boys access that content.
Three broadcasts per week
Sandra Barneda is once again at the helm of this format produced by Mediaset in collaboration with Cuarzo Producciones (Banijay Iberia). On this occasion, a triple weekly delivery is planned that will start at 9:45 pm. on Mondays with a regular schedule, and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with reduced deliveries in the access prime time (right after the news). What is more, The debate over temptations It will be broadcast exclusively on Fridays on Mediaset Infinity and can be viewed openly by all users of the platform. The format will offer new material from the experience and exclusive previews, in addition to the participation of the edition’s protagonists and a team of collaborators.
This edition will welcome the arrival of three VIP singles to the villas and there will be, as in other cases, classic dynamics such as mixed bonfires and the singles bonfire, face to face in front of the mirror, the power of veto for one of the singles and the opportunity for one of the couple members to see what is happening in real time in the other villa.
Telecinco has been warming up with transmission on its own platform, Mediaset Infinity, from Going to Temptation Islandprogram that presents the five participating couples in detail and will offer a preview of the moments that will mark the edition.
The ninth installment has the challenge of repeating the success of the eighth installment. With an average share of 16.5% and 1,529 thousand viewers, it became the edition with the best to share of the format since the third, broadcast in 2021, and topped its broadcast slot. On social media it accumulated more than 1,000 million views, among which the most viral moment of the edition stood out, Montoya’s race towards Villa Playa, with 50 million views, a moment that went around the world.