At Atresmedia they have a clear commitment to fiction. The series may not be the main asset of the open grid, but they have become essential for the company’s global strategy, producing this content for Atresplayer, its streaming service. This Tuesday night they announced the projects for the next season, those pending release or in the pre-production phase, and the presentation could be understood as a blow on the table. These range from the adaptation of The Turkish Passion to the confirmation that The Route, one of the most applauded series of 2022, will have a continuation.
Borja Soler surprised with a drama of characters with an unusual structure, which went back in time to explain the lives, dynamics and past of five young people who had grown up on the Bakalao route. The characters played by Àlex Monner, Elisabet Casanovas, Claudia Salas, Ricardo Gómez and Guillem Barbosa portrayed a youth marked by having lived in Valencian lands when music and discos took over the area.
What will be told in this second season in Ibiza? Marc, the character played by Monner, is a resident DJ at Amnesia in 1995 and a parallel will be established with the island of the seventies, when it was still virgin territory. And it is that we remember that the character was adopted and his biological parents had died in the Caravelle plane crash in 1972. Clara Botas, Roberto Martín Maiztegui and Borja Soler will be in charge of the script.
It was a matter of time before The Gypsy Bride had a sequel, taking advantage of the literary phenomenon that is the novels by Carmen Mola, this pseudonym that actually hid the identity of Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero. In this new case, The Purple Network, homicide inspector Elena Blanco played by Nerea Barros will continue to search for her son Lucas, kidnapped 10 years ago.
And, after The Purple Net, La nena will also be adapted with Barros in the lead role. His synopsis of her? “It is the night of the end of the Chinese year, the year of the pig begins. Chesca has met Ángel Zárate, but at the last moment he stands up to her. Still, she goes out to have fun, meets a man, and spends the night with him. The next morning, three men surround her bed, waiting to join the feast. And a repulsive smell of pork permeates the room.
The lovers of Veneno, the creation of Javier Ambrossy and Javier Calvo that repositioned the figure of Cristina Ortiz in the popular Spanish imagination, have been waiting for a long time for Vestidas de azul, the prequel about six trans people in Spain in the early eighties. Mikel Rueda, Claudia Costafreda and Ian de la Rosa are listed as directors and the Javis act as executive producers.
But now, in addition, Atresmedia has already wanted to announce another related project: a series about Paca la Piraña, which will be precisely in Vestidas de azul after being one of the anchors of Veneno. Hardly any details of Piraña are known, which wants to serve to vindicate the elderly of the LGTBQ collective and which comes from Suma Content, the Javis producer.
At Atresmedia, from what can be verified, they are fond of taking advantage of their most popular or critically received intellectual properties. So, following in the footsteps of One Step Forward, the Physics or Chemistry universe will return with FoQ: The Next Generation. After the fire destroyed the Zurbarán Institute, the New Zurbarán reopened its doors a decade later to welcome the former students from other centers. This will create, of course, a lot of drama.
This does not end here. Dani de la Orden creates A death for the communication group, a project where Verónica Echegui and Joan Amargós will be two friends who meet again at a funeral: he has cancer and she, disbelieving in love, is pregnant. Can something come out of there? Yolanda Ramos will be a national artist in A New Dawn, a series on that fine line that separates having a drink often from falling into the addiction that breaks her life. José Corbacho is the creator of the series.
Following the procedural model, One life less in the Canary Islands, a police series where the Homicide team will investigate murders in the archipelago. Ginés García Millán and Natalia Verbeke will be two police officers with opposite characters, as television tradition usually dictates. In Mariliendre, which, of course, is produced by Suma Content, Javier Ferreiro will write a musical about a queen of the night who, at 35 years old and already leading a boring life, remembers to what extent she was the diva of the gay venues with their gay friends.
For 33 days, an exceptional signing: Carles Porta, author of Crims, who helps write this story based on a real case. It is the escape of Manuel Brito and Javier Picatoste, who escaped from the Lleida Penitentiary Center by shooting two policemen at point-blank range.
On a more classic level, two key projects: Entre Tierras with Megan Montaner as a heroine facing obstacles in the sixties, in a series described as an emotional drama, and Yon González will return to the channel where he grew up with series such as El internado or Bajo sospecha con Beguinas, set in the 13th century and telling the lives of those women who defied the social impositions of the time.
For best-sellers, The Shadow of the Earth will adapt the novel by Elvira Mínguez as a miniseries. In 1896, in a town of Zamora dominated by misery, a widow and sick woman rules the community with an iron fist. Facing her, her eternal rival, who wants the power of the tyrant. For La pasión turca, which adapts the novel by Antonio Gala, the Atresmedia audience will meet Maggie Civantos from Vis a vis, who leads the story of love and passion between a Fine Arts teacher and her Turkish lover, Yamán.
In what are you waiting for? will have a rom-com asset, adapting Megan Maxwell’s novel about two couples who fall in love but are afraid of commitment. And with Zorras, which adapts Noemí Casquet, the platform will have a portrait of female youth in a hostile environment. Andrea Ros, Mirela Balic and Tai Fati are the leading trio.
If in Déjate ver Atresplayer will trust Álvaro Carmona after the critical success of Gente hablando, in Red flags Nando López will return after La edad de la ira, repeating themes of adolescence and his sexuality. For Santuario they have Manuel Bartual and Carmen Pacheco, who created the podcast about the sanctuary where women spend their pregnancy on a dystopian planet. And in Honor Dario Grandinetti will explore the moral dilemma of a judge when helping his son, responsible for a deadly hit-and-run, the adaptation of an Israeli format that was adapted in the United States with Bryan Cranston.
In the biographical field, The Great Jump will tell the life of Gervasi Deferr, the Olympic gymnast; the documentary series Tino Casal is produced; and Jesus Christ Superstar is pending premiere, which will feature Alejandro Jato as Camilo Sesto.
Finally, the imminent premiere series: Las noches de Tefía, created by Miguel del Arco, which will narrate the human misery that the inmates of the Francoist concentration camp in Fuerteventura had to endure. It was there where the dictatorship sent those convicted by the Law of Vagrants and Crooks in the 50s and 60s, becoming a detention and torture center for homosexuals. Marcos Ruiz, Patrick Criado, Miguel Fernández, Israel Elejalde, Roberto Álamo, Jorge Perugorría, Carolina Yuste and Raúl Prieto make up the cast.
