
El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.


A major traffic jam throws thousands of citizens on the outskirts of Madrid into chaos, disrupting their plans. This everyday situation will be the starting point for unexpected, comical, and emotional plots.


Years have passed since his last adventure, but José Luis Torrente, the most politically incorrect former cop in Spain, still sees himself as a national hero.




A short film with which the Spanish television program El Hormiguero begins its season.

Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.

The rude, lewd and crude Spanish ex-police officer Torrente finds himself facing jail time. Can he survive a twisted irony that places him where he has put so many others, both guilty and innocent?

Following how La Joia, Bad Gyal's first album, was made, a path full of lights and shadows in which a diamond in the rough ends up becoming a real jewel.



The brilliant actor and comedian Enrique San Francisco undergoes a very particular trial during which he will have to account for his turbulent past and respond to the accusations and reproaches of friends and colleagues.