Mea culpa

Mea culpa is a Chilean television series broadcast by Televisión Nacional de Chile in prime time, hosted by journalist Carlos Pinto. He recreates with actors the crimes that have shocked Chilean public opinion in a trustworthy way, which, in its original broadcasts, earned him a large audience in his country of origin. Its first broadcast was on June 2, 1993, presented by journalist Cecilia Serrano. The main music at the beginning of the program was composed by Edgardo Riquelme in 1993 who also composed certain themes used as incidental music in some chapters. Given its graphic dramatization of murders, rapes or other crimes that endanger human life, this series is exclusively for adults. After twelve years of the last episode issued, on October 21, 2021 a new season premiered, replicating the success of its broadcasts in the 90s and 2000s. The new episodes of 2021 have been promoted as 'Mea Culpa: El Regreso' (Mea Culpa returns, in Spanish). History At the beginning the program was presented by the journalist Cecilia Serrano, recognized for being a host, at that time the main TVN newscast, with an introduction to the case, then she continued with the recreation of the case, a case with different themes each week. At the end, the psychologist Giorgio Agostini Vicentini and the criminologist lawyer Andrés Domínguez Vial were discussed about the case, as well as a guest depending on the case. In the following seasons it changed and only the recreations were presented and within these, an expert in the subject was consulted.