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Su turbulento pasado acecha a Pablo. © SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime ha anunciado hoy que Arcadia, su nueva serie original española, dirigida por Jorge Saavedra (Zorro) a partir de un guion de Lidia Fraga y Jacobo Díaz (Serramoura), llegará este año a la plataforma de streaming.

Arcadia cuenta la historia de Pablo, que lo tiene todo: una vida tranquila, una comunidad muy unida y un hijo al que adora. Como entrenador de un equipo juvenil de lucha canaria, es conocido por su amabilidad y su actitud tranquila en la apacible ciudad de Arcadia. Nadie conoce la verdad sobre su oscuro y peligroso pasado. Tras vivir al límite en México, escapó de su violenta vida para proteger a su hijo Bruno. Convertirse en padre lo cambió todo para él, pero huir de su antigua vida tuvo un precio. Su mujer, a la que dejó atrás, nunca le ha perdonado. Ahora ella ha vuelto, dispuesta...

Madrid-based Álvaro Brechner, “one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade,” Variety wrote in a review of his Venice-selected “A Twelve-Year Night,” is attached to direct “Mägo de Oz, La Película” a big-scale bio of the Spanish folk metal band.

Behind Cannes Critics’ Week player “Bad Day to Go Fishing,” sales hit “Mr Kaplan” and the Venice-selected “A Twelve-Year Night,” all Oscar entries from Uruguay, Brechner will initiate principal photography on March 17. He will shoot in Madrid, the Canary Island of Gran Canaria and Mexico City with an international Spanish-language cast including Spain’s Adrián Lastra (“Velvet”) and Roberto Álamo (“Riot Police”) and Mexico’s Michelle Renaud (“Malvada”) and Michael Ronda (“Cuando sea joven”).

The movie is produced by on-the-rise Spanish outfit Eterno Island Pictures, a subsidiary of El Sueño Eterno Pictures (“El Largo Viaje”). It is written by Sofía Cuenca, a co-scribe on “My Fault,...

Last night's Bachelor episode went semi-bookish. Bachelor Sean Lowe posed for Harlequin romance novel book covers with some of the contestants.

Though the winner'sKristy's, book cover with Sean won't be published, she will receive a three-book cover model opportunity with Harlequin for upcoming titles.

In regards to this opportunity, Harlequin Brand Representative Michelle Renaud noted, "What makes The Bachelor so compelling—searching for true love and ending up with your soul mate—is what our novels are all about. This is a real Harlequin story come to life. And The Bachelor and Harlequin are a great fit, because people know both always have a happy ending."

Of the winner, Renaud told USA Today, "The camera doesn't lie, and for the winning shot Harlequin was looking for a photograph that conveyed a genuine connection with Sean. I think we found our winner and a perfect Harlequin cover model — and with any...