El Rosco

I’m just going to quickly leave this here because it’s a story of some note: the Spanish Supreme Court has ordered Antena 3 to stop broadcasting its hit quiz Pasapalabra over a dispute of who is licenced to use its long-standing endgame El Rosco – we know it as “that show with the massive bote/jackpots”. Here’s the story in El Pais which will go into more detail – basically ITV Studios owns The Alphabet Game, but El Rosco was an addition by the Italian version of the show Pasaparola, and that addition to the format is owned by Dutch company MC&F. A3 can keep making the show, but they can’t for now use its iconic endgame without financial penalty.