Ponto de Encontro

Ponto de Encontro (Meeting Point) was a Portuguese television series that reunited people with long-lost families and friends. It was produced in the 1990s for SIC TV channel.

History

The format premiered at 22:15 on October 27, 1994, being in the same line as Perdoa-me and All You Need is Love.^[1] In 1995 it moved to Monday nights.^[2] Before its creation it was part of another program, Casos de Polícia,^[2] by April 1995, it had become the second most-watched program. By then, more than 10,000 letters to the production of the program hadn't been dispatched yet.^[3] Some of the cases shown in the program were staged.^[2]

References

^ Público, 27 October 1994
^ ^a ^b ^c Nunes, Maria Fátima (2011). A crença no reality show Ponto de Encontro, Revista de Letras, II, n.º 10 (2011), 389-406.
^ Público, 12 April 1995

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[1] Público, 27 October 1994

[PDE-2] Nunes, Maria Fátima (2011). A crença no reality show Ponto de Encontro, Revista de Letras, II, n.º 10 (2011), 389-406.

[3] Público, 12 April 1995

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