American television soap opera As the World Turns. Lozano was portrayed by Panamanian singer, actor, and ad hoc politician Ruben Blades, whom Chris Carter had long been wanting to feature in an episode. Coincidentally, Raymond Cruz and Simi Mehtathe actors who portrayed Eladio and Gabriellewere in a romantic relationship at the time of filming and later were married. When developing the script for "El Mundo Gira", Shiban spent "several days" at an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) immigration processing center in San Pedro, California, where he observed how the immigrants acted and were treated. Shiban noticed that many of the immigrants refused to give the INS agents their real names, which was reflected in the eventual episode. The show's set designers scouted out a barren stretch of land near Boundary Bay Airport, Vancouver and erected a faux-migrant camp for use in the episode. (After the set was torn down, the area was later used during the filming of the episode "Tempus Fugit".) Filming was temporarily set back when it snowed at the camp site the day before production was set to commence, requiring the show's crew to use, among other things, hot water and hair dryers to clear the area. Reception "El Mundo Gira" was originally broadcast in the United States on the Fox network on , and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on . This episode earned a Nielsen rating of 13.3, with a 19 share, meaning that roughly 13.3 percent of all television-equipped households, and 19 percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode. It was viewed by 22.37 million viewers. Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club reviewed the episode positively, rating it a B. He considered the episode "entertaining to watch" with "nifty direction from Tucker Gates", despite being formulaic and with the same problems he found in the previous episode penned by John Shiban, season three's "Teso Dos Bichos". Handlen had much praise for the second half, which he noted was filled with dark humor, and featured a "bizarre ending". Author Keith Topping criticized the episode in his book X-Treme Possibilities, calling it an "awful episode with a heavy-handed, clod-hopping attempt at social comment that hardly sits well with the themes on display in the rest of the episode." He called it the worst episode of the fourth season. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting