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Today, Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for Love You to Death (A muerte), the Spanish-language romantic comedy hailing from Atresmedia TV and Goya Award-nominated Dani de la Orden (Casa en Flames).

Starring Goya Award winner Verónica Echegui (The Patients of Dr. García) and Joan Amargós (Show Yourself), the seven-episode series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 5 with the first two episodes, followed by a new episode every Wednesday through March 12.

Love You to Death (A muerte) tells the story of the cautious Raúl (Amargós), who reconnects with free-spirited and newly pregnant Marta (Echegui), following his heart cancer diagnosis.

They resume a friendship that began in childhood, and in a relationship brought together by fate, they begin to test their beliefs about love. Can the commitment-phobic Marta fall in love? And can Raúl meet the love of his life?

In addition to Verónica Echegui and Joan Amargós,...

The Walt Disney Co.’s streamer is gearing up to launch a very different type of streaming content with Regreso a Las Sabinas (Return to Las Sabinas), a 70-episode daily series from Spain that kicks off with the first five episodes on Oct. 11. The remaining episodes will be released one a day Monday to Friday starting on Oct. 14.

Sofia Fábregas, vp of original production at Disney+, Walt Disney Co. Spain, discussed the experiment of bringing such an ambitious melodrama production to the streaming world in during an event in Madrid on Tuesday. After all, the Disney+ show is the first daily streaming series made in Spain.

The need for streamers to keep viewers engaged by offering fresh content regularly could well explain the series. But the show also took two and a half years to make, and more episodes means more money spent. So Fábregas and her team’s decision came down to core values.

Chile’s Fabula and Spain’s Alea Media have unveiled they are allying on development of “A Long Petal of the Sea,” based on a 2019 novel by Isabel Allende.

Alea Media founder Aitor Gabilondo will serve as showrunner on the series which is scheduled to go into production by the end of 2025.

The new title joins two of the biggest powerhouses of premium scripted drama in the Spanish-speaking world and powerful IP in a swing for broad audiences worldwide.

Founded by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larrain, Academy Award winners for “A Fantastic Woman,” Fabula’s production credits take in movies “Jackie,” “Spencer” and “Maria,” all directed by Pablo Larraín.

Headed by Aitor Gabilondo, Alea Media is behind HBO Spanish smash hit “Patria” and Mediaset España’s “Wrong Side of the Tracks,” whose latest third season topped Netflix global non-English TV series charts earlier this year.

“A Long Petal of...

This weekend, Netflix is adding a Turkish drama TV series, a Bridgerton limited TV series, and a Japanese drama TV series. The final days of April saw the arrival of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and its extended version, the anime series InuYasha, the African rom-com It’s Us, and season 1 of the Spanish period drama series The Patients of Dr. Garcia, as well as the talk-show documentary special The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, the final episodes of the drama TV series Firefly Lane, and the second season of the fantasy TV series Sweet Tooth.

As it does on the first days of every month, this weekend Netflix will add a bunch of licensed content to its catalog, most notably the Austin Powers movie trilogy, David Fincher’s The Curious Base of Benjamin Button, the horror movies Dawn of the Dead and Paranormal Activity, the psychological drama Girl,...

The Patients of Dr. Garcia (also titled as Los pacientes del doctor Garcia), is a Netflix spy thriller series based on Almudena Grandes’ espionage novel of the same name. The series covers the period following the Spanish Civil War, when Francisco Franco seized power and ruled Spain. Following the war, Guillermo Garcia Medina, a Republican, assumed a false identity to reside in Madrid. His former patient and close friend, Manuel Arroyo was a Republican ambassador who embarked on a risky expedition to join a clandestine organization run by Clara Stauffer. Clara Stauffer, a Falangist and Nazi supervisor, was assisting Third Reich war criminals and fugitives to flee to Argentina through this secret network; thus, Manuel took the identity of a convicted soldier to ensure his escape. Guillermo Garcia assisted his friend Manuel by joining a transportation company working for Clara, but the soldier whose identity Manuel utilized to escape returned to Madrid.

This weekend, Netflix is welcoming a special talk-show documentary, the final episodes of a drama TV series, and the second season of a popular fantasy TV series. Last weekend, the streaming giant added season 6 of Better Call Saul, the Bollywood movie Ready, the drama movie Bangarang, the Nollywood movie The Wildflower, and the biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, as well as the movie Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, the TV series The Diplomat, and the rom-com A Tourist’s Guide to Love.

This weekend, Netflix will bring a variety of licensed content for all tastes, such as Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and its extended version, the anime series InuYasha, the African rom-com It’s Us, and season 1 of the Spanish period drama series The Patients of Dr. Garcia. As for original content, Netflix is adding a talk-show documentary special with Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey,...

Coming Next from Spain, a showcase of five series, unspooled at Series Mania on March 21 just after a Spanish series, “Wrong Side of the Tracks” from Mediaset España and Alea Media, had scored 149.6 million watching hours in three weeks on Netflix for Seasons 1 and 2.

That platform connection and power of Spanish series threaded most of the series and much of the commentary at Tuesday’s Next from Spain, supported by Audiiovisual from Spain.

At least in terms of titles now ready to hit the market, there’s little sign as yet of platform pullback in Spain. Rather, it remains a ground zero in the streamer wars.

2023 will see the release of 70 new Spanish scripted series and 27 returning seasons of titles such as “Elite” “Rapa” “30 Coins” and “Veneno,” presenter Irene Jiménez, at Audiovisual 451, told a Next From Spain audience.

Of these new titles, 36% will be produced by linear TV broadcasters,...