The show was originally part of Telecinco's breakfast news, with Vicente Vallés as the main face of the format, but proved so popular that it was spun off into its own show in 2001, and Vallés left at the same time. Montserrat Domínguez was a perfectly fine host, but clearly not quite good enough for the channel, which brought Vallés back in 2004 (if only on Fridays).
Vallés left in 2008 and after a short-lived attempt at making it more tabloid-friendly with María Teresa Campos, the show was axed in 2009. It was brought back with Ana Terradillos in 2023 for a schedule shake-up, surprising many observers, but it hasn't done so well in the ratings.
Tropes included in La mirada crítica:
- Carried by the Host: It was well-known in Spain that Vicente Vallés was the only reason this show was such a hit, and ratings tanked when he left. When he came back in 2004 but only for one day a week, ratings always seemed to spike on a Friday. That said, Ana Terradillos hasn't done a bad job of filling his boots.
- Epic Fail: One episode in 2024 about the massive floods in October and November of that year saw LMC broadcast a video seeming to be of the tragedy
. It didn't take long for news organisations to realise the video was actually from the year before, and the channel's main news broadcast later that day had to correct Ana Terradillos. - Politician Guest-Star: Regularly happened in the 2000s, given that it was largely the most successful show in the mornings. Not so much in the 2020s version as it's no longer Telecinco's morning ratings banker.
- Tabloid Melodrama: Happens to Telecinco, and Vicente Vallés implied it was the reason he left in 2008. He didn't want to discuss tabloid gossip, preferring the real news.
- This Just In!: Fraglantly abused in the reboot, which nearly always has an alert for "Última hora"note , even if it often broke the previous day.
