After reviewing the international premieres and the returns of the coming months, we close our review of the autumn of series by taking a look at the national product that can be seen both on free-to-air channels and on pay platforms.
It is difficult to follow the trail of Spanish premieres in advance due to the programming strategies of open channels, and more so this year with the pandemic involved.
The ones we include here are the ones that are slated to be released this quarter, although things could change.
As always, for the rest of the information, with release dates, there is our Fifth Season series calendar.
Skam
(Movistar +)
The fourth and final season of the youth series is already underway with its peculiar form of broadcast (with clips that appear throughout the week in the network profiles of the series and the characters) and with its weekly episode on Sundays .
This time the plot, although the story of the five friends continues, focuses on Amira, a young woman who lives halfway between her high school group and that of the girls with whom she shares a religion.
Mothers
(Telecinco, September 9)
Although it has been available for months on Amazon Prime Video, this Wednesday this series created by Aitor Gabilondo and starring Belén Rueda, which is set in a hospital, premiered openly.
Her argument follows the cross stories of several children admitted to the medical center and their mothers, the other patients in these cases.
A classic medical drama.
Memories of Idhún
(Netflix, September 10)
The five episodes that adapt the first volume of Laura Gallego's homonymous bestseller are now available.
And you can already see how this production has been, which comes with controversy over the choice of voices to dub the main characters.
In his plot, Jack and Victoria will have to fight to stop Kirtash, the assassin sent by Ashran to destroy the Idhunites who fled from his tyranny.
The fence
(Antena 3, September 10)
This dystopian drama premiered in January on Atresplayer Premium and was scheduled to open in the spring, but the pandemic crossed in the middle and has been for autumn.
A virus has seriously depleted the world's population.
In this future with scarce natural resources and dictatorial regimes, Madrid is divided into two areas, one of them only accessible to the government and the privileged.
The protagonist family will fight to recover little Marta, held in the hands of the government.
Stories of Alcafrán
(La 1, September 11)
José Mota and Eduardo Ladrón de Guevera are the creators of this traditional comedy that premiered on TVE on Friday the 11th. The story is set in a small town in La Mancha that was prosperous but now struggles against depopulation, and follows several characters, from a teacher who comes to run the adult school to the mayor and her two teenage daughters, a corrupt former mayor or a couple who run a bar they want to modernize.
Stage 0
(HBO Spain, September 13)
Series created by Irene Escolar and Bárbara Lennie in which theater and television are combined to bring some of the main contemporary Spanish theater texts to the small screen.
The mariachis, Hermanas, Mammón, Todo el tiempo del mundo, Vania
and
Judgment of a fox
are the chosen works, and among the actors are Carmen Machi, Israel Elejalde, Ariadna Gil, Luis Bermejo or Escolar and Lennie themselves.
HIT
(The 1)
Although the premiere date has not yet been announced, it should not take long for this TVE series to see the light, one of its big bets for this fall.
Daniel Grao plays a teacher with unusual teaching methods who arrives at a troubled high school to try to straighten the relationship between students, teachers and parents.
The Spanish educational system is called into question in this risky and courageous series.
Venom
(Atresplayer Premium, September 20)
The Javis series about the life of Cristina Ortiz finally picks up pace and on September 20 the third episode will be available on the Atresmedia payment platform and, since then, there will be a new installment every week until the end of the season.
The first two chapters have already demonstrated the virtues of this exciting story, very well shot and produced, bright but without hiding the darkness.
One of the essential Spanish titles of this year.
Patria
(HBO Spain, September 27)
Another title that is postulated as one of the essentials of the year is the series based on the novel by Fernando Aramburu about two families separated by ETA terrorism.
On September 27 the first two chapters will be released (the rest will arrive weekly on the platform).
Elena Irureta and Ane Gabarain give life to the two friends whose relationship changes forever when the husband of one of them is murdered by ETA and the son of the other belongs to the terrorist gang, which leaves them wounds that not even time is able to heal.
Ines of my soul
(La 1)
Another of the stakes of public television is the historical drama in which the life of the Spanish conqueror Inés Suárez is told.
Elena Rivera gives life to this woman who escaped her destiny to the Americas in search of her husband and ended up being key in the conquest of Chile.
Eduardo Noriega is Pedro de Valdivia, with whom Inés will fall in love on American soil.
A good production, very entertaining and with a great protagonist who will see the light sometime this fall at La 1 and is now available on Amazon Prime Video.
Anti-riot
(Movistar +, October 16)
One of the strong bets of the Telefónica platform for this fall is this police series created by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña and directed by Sorogoyen himself.
The story follows six riot police who execute an eviction in the center of Madrid that becomes complicated and a man ends up dying.
An Internal Affairs team will investigate the events.
One of the agents investigating the case ends up discovering that there is much more behind this ill-fated eviction.
The unit
set the bar very high in terms of police series, it will be necessary to see if this new proposal measures up.
It opens on October 16 on Movistar +.
Someone has to die
(Netflix, October 16)
Manolo Caro (
The House of Flowers)
is responsible for this three-part miniseries set in Spain in the 1950s.
The son of a conservative family returns from Mexico to meet the girl his parents want him to marry.
But he has other plans and arrives accompanied by a Mexican dancer friend.
Carmen Maura, Cecilia Suárez, Ernesto Alterio and Alejandro Speitzer are part of its dazzling cast.
The knot
(Antenna 3)
Although it seemed that it was going to stay in Atresplayer Premium (where it premiered almost a year ago), Antena 3 announces it as one of its fiction bets for this fall.
It is a
quite addictive
thriller
in which the coincidences of destiny will cross the lives of two couples.
The story is told in two stages, the present and the past, in addition to the contributions that some secondary characters make on camera in a kind of mockumentary.
Natalia Verbeke, Cristina Plazas, Miquel Fernández and Oriol Tarrasón are its protagonists.
Nasdrovia
(Movistar +, November 6)
Leonor Watling and Hugo Silva are the protagonists of this comedy whose starting point is the crisis of the 40s suffered by two lawyers, Edurne and Julián.
To try to turn their lives around, they open a Russian food restaurant with Franky, a cook specializing in Russian food.
The place, however, will become the favorite of the mafia, which will turn his life into a delusional and dangerous thriller.
Tell me who I am
(Movistar +)
The adaptation of the novel by Julia Navarro is one of the great bets of the payment platform for this fall with an air of blockbuster thanks to the collaboration between Movistar, Telemundo and the production company DLO.
Irene Escolar is the protagonist of this story of nine 50-minute episodes that follows the life of Amelia Garayoa, a woman who fights for freedom while being involved in the most relevant events in the history of the 20th century, from the Franco uprising to the liberation of Berlin, passing through the communist rise in Stalin's Moscow or the decline of Nazi Germany.
The Mess You Leave
(Netflix)
It does not have a release date yet, but it is scheduled for this fall.
Carlos Montero (
Elite
) adapts his own book.
It is a thriller set in a town in Galicia where Raquel, a high school literature teacher, and her husband, a native of that town, arrive.
On her first day at work, the woman learns that her predecessor has committed suicide, and at the end of the classes she finds a note that says "And you, how long will it take to kill you?"
Logically, he will become obsessed with knowing what happened to the previous teacher and if she really committed suicide.
Bárbara Lennie, Inma Cuesta, Tamar Novas and Arón Piper are among the main actors.
Temperance
(Amazon Prime Video)
Leonor Watling is the protagonist of the adaptation of the novel by María Dueñas.
The project, which Atresmedia has managed for a long time and for which it has found its perfect partner in Amazon, finished its filming in 2019, so it should be ready to premiere this fall, as planned.
Its plot takes place at the end of the 19th century and tells the story of Mauro Larrea and Soledad Montalvo, a self-made man and woman whose destinies will intersect in a plot that will take them to the mining communities of Mexico, the salons of the London high society, the Cuba of the slave trade and Jerez in full swing.
El Cid
(Amazon Prime Video)
Jaime Lorente is the protagonist of one of the great orders of Amazon Prime Video in its commitment to Spanish production.
He will play Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, one of the best known characters in Spanish history, in this series for which the platform commissioned two seasons at once.
Legend and history merge in his figure.
The series will approach the character from a contemporary perspective as a man trapped between two worlds and two cultures.
It also does not have a date for its exhibition, and they had to interrupt filming due to the pandemic, but perhaps they will still arrive in time to release this year, as was the initial idea.
30 coins
(HBO Spain)
The new series by Alex de la Iglesia (after
Pluto BRBNero
) is scheduled to premiere at the end of the year.
The action is set in a town where a priest, exorcist and ex-convict arrives who wants to flee from his past and start a new life.
But strange phenomena begin to occur in the town, and together with the mayor and the town veterinarian, he will have to solve the mystery that hides a coin from the priest, which could be part of the thirty coins that Judas received in exchange for Jesus Christ.
The three will end up at the center of a global conspiracy in a plot with hints of terror, black humor and the odd monster in between.
The Innocent
(Netflix)
Also for this fall, the premiere of this Spanish series is scheduled in which Oriol Paulo adapts a novel by Harlan Coben (whose books are being an inexhaustible source for Netflix).
Mario Casas and Aura Garrido play a couple who have to rebuild their lives after she ended up in prison by interceding in a fight that ended in homicide.
Jose Coronado and Alexandra Jiménez complete the cast.
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