{"id":3623,"date":"2012-10-27T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/sabado-gigante-the-greatest-television-show-ever-maybe\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T02:16:15","slug":"sabado-gigante-the-greatest-television-show-ever-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/27\/sabado-gigante-the-greatest-television-show-ever-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1bado Gigante – The Greatest Television Show Ever Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

TV giant Don Francisco celebrates 50 years of ‘Sabado Gigante’<\/h1>\n

An entertainment institution in the Spanish-speaking world, Don Francisco aims to stay on top of the game with his long-running variety show ‘Sabado Gigante.’<\/em>
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By Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MIAMI \u2014\u00a0Don Francisco<\/a>\u00a0is running late to his own party \u2014 peculiar, considering he arrived six hours before it started.<\/p>\n

One of Latin America’s top entertainment personalities is holed up in his dressing room at\u00a0Univision<\/a>‘s studios as frenzied fans just outside line a red carpet where celebrities are slowly making their way into the big show. As he quietly watches the procession on his dressing room monitor, his longtime assistant begins the intricate ritual of preparing his pre-show meal that includes branzini fish with rocoto\u00a0chile<\/a>\u00a0paste and a tossed salad.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: 50 years of S\u00e1bado Gigante: From Pel\u00e9 to Bill Gates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“After the break,” announces one of the hosts from the red carpet, “Don Francisco!” The adoring throngs scream in delight as the ringmaster of the longest-running variety show in TV history squeezes a lemon over his salad and chuckles. After a half-century in show business, he knows they can wait a little longer.<\/p>\n

At 71, Francisco is an institution in the Spanish-speaking world as the unmistakable and singular host of “S\u00e1bado Gigante,” which means “Giant Saturday.” The sturdy Chilean-born showman is the enduring attraction in a weekly three-hour cavalcade famous for its bikini-clad models, slapstick sketches and madcap contests, and which has become a welcome weekend siren call to the Latino diaspora.<\/p>\n

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from The LA Times TV giant Don Francisco celebrates 50 years of ‘Sabado Gigante’ An entertainment institution in the Spanish-speaking world, Don Francisco aims to stay on top of the game with his long-running variety show ‘Sabado Gigante.’ By Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times\u00a0 MIAMI \u2014\u00a0Don Francisco\u00a0is running late to his own party \u2014 peculiar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}