RTVA's Campanades 2026: Sharp Satire Returns to Andorra's New Year's Eve

RTVA will broadcast a new New Year's Eve comedy special titled *Campanades 2026* on 31 December starting at 22:45, led by comedians Iván Lira and Miki Legendario.

The programme, a joint production from Quelcom Andorra and La Random Collective, marks a return to satire and sketches after about a decade away from Andorra Televisió's year-end lineup. It will air live on the channel and stream via the RTVA website.

Lira and Legendario, who previously helmed similar specials in 2012 and 2015, described those efforts as positive but noted significant changes since then. "Technology has evolved a lot, and so has Andorra," they said, crediting the fresh perspective of the younger La Random Collective for enriching the project.

This edition adopts a sharper tone, with "less naivety and more well-mannered bite," according to the creators. They emphasised a heightened awareness that "everything can go off the rails," shaping the overall feel.

The multiverse serves as the narrative thread, emerging from the realisation that "reality no longer has a single coherent version." It allows for unapologetic exaggeration and social critique across multiple planes. "If everything is possible, everything is fair game," Lira and Legendario explained. References to *The Lord of the Rings* touch on foreign investors, emerging digital professions, and Andorra's political and social landscape.

Viewers follow Mike and Joe, two American YouTubers arriving in the Principat to launch digital ventures. Strapped for cash, they enter *El Joc de l'Isard*, a parody of *Squid Game*. Self-referential humour features the creators "doing exactly what we criticise," which they called both multiverse and therapy. The concept provides structure without constraining the comedy, which they described as "a very well-dressed excuse."

Regadera Foodie joins not as a guest but to "disrupt the universe." The pacing aims for controlled chaos: "We tie everything tightly so it feels like it's slipping away."

Lira and Legendario set their own boundaries, filtering out jokes that fail to amuse them. Some topics suit bar banter better than a broadcast, they noted, balancing humour with an implicit yearly review. "It's comedy, but the reckoning is there—we just do it laughing, not pointing fingers."

They summed it up as "a New Year's Eve that doesn't tell you what to think, but what to laugh about." The special reflects a saturated, screen-filled era where humour endures—for now.