'Balenciaga', 'Nacho', 'Doctor García's patients'... The Spanish series that will be talked about in 2023

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If more than 40 series premiered in Spain in 2022 (leaving new seasons aside), it would not be surprising if this year a new television production record was set.

The following list includes 25 titles that will debut in the coming months, just a selection of those that are already scheduled for this year on channels and platforms.

Three Spanish series have already seen the light of day in the first days of the year, the daily

(La 1),

(Telecinco) and

(Atresplayer Premium).

We leave out returns also announced for this year as

and

, among others.

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(Netflix. January 27).

Milena Smit stars in the adaptation of the novel by Javier Castillo.

A girl disappears during the Three Kings parade in Malaga.

A trainee journalist investigates, in parallel with the police, what has happened to the little girl.

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(Netflix. February 14).

Romantic comedy starring Georgina Amorós and Franco Masini in which a girl, who comes to Madrid with the intention of becoming a film director, meets the perfect boy to star in her films and her life.

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(Disney +. February 15).

Thriller inspired by the Blue Jeans trilogy in which Daniel Grao and Zoe Stein play a father and his daughter who are involved in the investigation of the murder of a teenager in a fictitious town in Andalusia.

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(HBO Max. February 17).

Animated comedy created by Miguel Esteban, Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla that tells the story of Stan, a normal boy who turns out to be the Antichrist and must fulfill his destiny: bring about Armageddon.

But what he wants is to sing and dance on Broadway.

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Trailer for the series 'Poor Devil'

An image from the animated comedy 'Poor Devil'.

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(Atresplayer Premium. March).

Inspired by the life of Nacho Vidal (and originally produced for the late Lionsgate+), it follows the lights and shadows of the controversial multi-billion dollar porn industry while charting the actor's rise to fame in the 1990s.

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Trailer for the series 'Nacho'

Martiño Rivas and María de Nati play the porn stars Nacho Vidal and Sara Bernat in the new Bambú Producciones series. Photo: Manuel Fernández-Valdes

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(Amazon Prime Video).

Eight episodes starring Carolina Yuste and Camila Sodi about two cleaners, one gypsy and the other Mexican, who are forced to flee after discovering a body in the house they were cleaning.

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(Amazon Prime Video).

This series is shot in Almería in which two young people escape from the forces of the law, from supernatural creatures and from themselves in a desert and cruel Andalusia.

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(Atresplayer Premium).

Between 1954 and 1966, Fuerteventura hosted a prison where the Franco regime sent those convicted by the law of vagrants and thugs.

In 2004, one of those prisoners remembers that hell and how the inmates escaped by imagining a parallel reality.

Patrick Criado, during the filming of 'The Nights of Tefía'.

-Balenciaga (

+).

Alberto San Juan plays the famous Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga.

The series covers its history in six episodes, from the Spanish Civil War to the early seventies.

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(TVE).

Adaptation of the novel by Almudena Grandes that is located in Madrid immediately after the Civil War, where Dr. Guillermo García Medina lives with a false identity with which he escaped death.

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(Atresplayer Premium).

As a continuation of

, this series is presented that will narrate the lives of several trans women at the time of the Spanish disclosure in the post-Franco regime, while another plot follows the lives of some of the characters of

.

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(Amazon Prime Video).

A boy who dreams of setting up a gym will enter the world of luxury in Marbella in the eighties, with its jet set, its eccentricities, its geopolitics... and his arms trafficking.

A promotional image of 'Los Farad'.

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(Netflix).

Pedro Alonso once again incarnates the charismatic thief from Money Heist

this series that follows his adventures prior to planning the coup with El Profesor.

Michelle Jenner, Tristán Ulloa and Begoña Vargas are some of his companions.

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(Amazon Prime Video).

Vicky Luengo and Hovik Keuchkerian will play Antonia Scott and Jon Gutiérrez in the adaptation of the novel by Juan Gómez-Jurado.

Scott is in charge of a secret and experimental police project.

Together with a Basque policeman, she will find herself immersed in a game of criminal cat and mouse.

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(Atresmedia).

Maggie Civantos and the Turkish actor Ilker Kaleli are the leading couple in the adaptation of Antonio Gala's novel that tells a story of love and passion in two stages between a Spanish professor of Fine Arts and her Turkish lover.

-

(Movistar Plus+).

The new

series is based on a viral video by a Christian pop music group made up of five sisters that will mark the life of a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism.

A moment from the filming of 'The Messiah'.

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(HBO Max).

A former soccer player has just set up his own player representation agency.

When it seems that everything is going well, problems arise with the departure of his most powerful player at the same time that his girlfriend leaves him.

-

(Atresmedia).

Megan Montaner is an Andalusian woman who has taken care of her family since her father died.

She agrees to marry a landowner from La Mancha in exchange for ensuring the well-being and future of her mother and siblings.

-

(Movistar Plus+).

Carmina and Emilio Somarriba are the heirs of Grupo Galgo, a company threatened by various crises.

An unexpected decision by Carmina causes a family and business earthquake that will also affect her children while the struggle for power separates them.

-

(Atresplayer Premium).

Three friends found "the club of sluts" with the aim of fulfilling all their sexual fantasies.

What they do not expect is that this will cause a whole female revolution.

The protagonists of 'Zorras'.

-

(Atresmedia).

Spanish version of the courtroom drama

.

Dario Grandinetti plays a judge who will have to decide what he is willing to do to protect his son after a fatal accident that could ruin his life.

-

(Amazon Prime Video and Mediaset).

Two girls flee their lives on a trip to Malaga where they will meet a young man from the neighborhood who excels in urban music.

The three will be immersed in betrayals and endless nights.

-

(Netflix).

Anna Castillo and Álvaro Mel star in the miniseries based on the novel by Elísabet Benavent.

She plays the heiress to a hotel empire.

He, a boy who has several jobs to make ends meet.

Only between them can they help each other to recover love.

-

(Atresplayer Premium).

Alejandro Jato will play Camilo Sesto in the four-episode series that will cover the singer's heyday years to detail the process of launching the musical

in Spain in the midst of the decline of the Franco dictatorship.

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(Netflix).

Fiction based on the crime of the Urban Police, with Quim Gutiérrez and Úrsula Corberó as protagonists.

The corpse of an agent is the trigger for an investigation that will reveal a network of toxic relationships and violence in the Local Police of Barcelona.

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