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La ficción, inspirada en el caso real del oso Cachou, ha sido creada por los hermanos Sánchez-Cabezudo. © Getty Images

Movistar Plus+ ha anunciado su nueva serie original Matar a un oso, creada, escrita y dirigida por Jorge y Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo. Borja Soler dirige además dos de los seis episodios que compondrán la serie.

El punto de partida de la historia se inspira en un hecho real: la muerte del oso Cachou en el Valle de Arán, en 2020. Un suceso que desencadena una investigación criminal nunca vista por la muerte de un animal. Los sospechosos son los habitantes del Valle, que se convierte en el escenario donde chocan dos mundos, el global y el ancestral, y donde algunas buenas personas hacen lo imposible para que la montaña no arda en llamas.

La serie de ficción, que comenzará su rodaje en el mes de agosto, estará protagonizada por Eduard Fernández (El 47), María Rodríguez Soto...

Àlex Monner volverá a meterse en la piel de Marc Ribó. © Atresplayer

Comienza el rodaje en la Comunidad Valenciana y las Islas Baleares de La Ruta. Vol. 2: Ibiza, la segunda temporada de la serie original de Atresplayer La Ruta.

Esta nueva temporada, de seis episodios, se desarrolla en dos líneas temporales para abordar otra etapa musical distinta y un nuevo enclave: Ibiza. Marc Ribó (Monner) es el DJ residente una de las grandes discotecas de Ibiza en 1996, cuando la isla está a punto de convertirse en la capital del ocio mundial. Aunque solo veinticinco años antes, a principios de los 70, era un oasis de libertad en la España franquista. Esa Ibiza es la que conocen los padres de Marc, pocos meses antes de morir en el famoso accidente aéreo del Caravelle de 1972, con los mismos años que cumplirá Marc al llegar a la isla. Así, la juventud de Marc...

High-flying Madrid-based Caballo Films, behind Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and “Riot Police” and Borja Soler’s “The Route,” has put into development a fiction series adaptation of Mabel Lozano’s prized same-titled non-fiction work.

Shaping up as a deep drill-down into the growth of prostitution in Spain into large-scale organized crime, “El Proxeneta” packs a powerful talent package of creator-writers Isabel Peña, co-writer of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “As Bestas” and “Riot Police,” and Eduardo Villanueva, a co-scribe on “Riot Police” and producer on “Stockholm.”

Pilar Palomero, a Spanish Academy Goya best picture winner for “Schoolgirls,” will direct the series, her first TV work beyond one episode of “Venga Juan.”

“Pilar was always on our minds for this project, given her talent, and we wanted a female gaze behind all the key points of creative responsibility,” said Villanueva.

“El Proxeneta” is co-produced by Lozano’s label Mafalda Entertainment.

“My commitment...

The battle for success on the new drama series scene is the battle for talent, led by screenwriters. Following, portraits of Spanish TV scribes or creators, sometimes writing teams, who’ve made an impact, or look set to do so:

Fran Araujo

2022 was Araujo’s year. He co-wrote Berlin Competition’s “One Night, One Day” and “Rapa,” Movistar+’s biggest 2022 bow. “Offworld,” a collective series he coordinated, was a Variety’s International TV Show of the Year. An iconoclast – “if I do the same thing, I get bored,” he says – who tears up the rule book.

Aina Clotet

Best known for acting, winning at Malaga for “The Wild Ones,” but a driving force as co-creator, director and star behind “This Is Not Sweden” a €1.5 million grant recipient and groundbreaking Spain-Scandinavia-Germany co-pro, turning on a couple who think they’ve found a model lifestyle. But “there are no guarantees,” says Clotet.

Cannes — An Atresplayer Premium Original, “The Route,” begins as the lead characters’ time together ends, in 1993.

A star DJ on Valencia’s Ruta de Bakalao, Marc’s heart isn’t in it anymore. He visits his family home and sits in his bedroom, still plastered with teenage memorabilia, trying to connect with a younger self who felt music with passion. For Sento, clubbing is now a business. Toni wonders if it’s time to go home.

“The Route” (“La Ruta”) then goes back in time, one episode at a time to end to when the friends first met, in 1981, and enjoyed some kind of innocence. Even a flashback to 1981 in the first episode feature a sequence which is narrated backwards, though many viewers may not cotton on.

As around all the world, global streamers demand for original series from Spain may in many cases now be slowing down. The creativity...

Atresplayer Premium, the burgeoning Ott service behind HBO Max hit “Veneno,” has renewed “The Gypsy Bride” (“La novia gitana”), whose Season 1, from “Penny Dreadful” director Paco Cabezas, world premieres at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Atresmedia Television will produce with Banijay Iberia’s Diagonal TV, producer of Netflix hit “Heirs to the Land.”Produced by Vis with the participation of Atresmedia Television and the collaboration of the Diagonal TV, the first season of “The Gypsy Bride” will bow on Atresplayer Premium on Sept. 25.

Directed in its totality by Cabezas, whose credits also include “American Gods,” Season 1 is set in a gypsy community on Madrid’s humble outskirts as homicide inspector Elena Blanco, is called in to investigate the torture and assassination of a young woman just before her wedding.

Channelling echoes of a Lorca tragedy, the series, shot with large visual ambition by Cabezas – mixing bold panoramics and hand-held camerawork...

Atresplayer Premium, the Ott platform run by Spanish media conglom Atresmedia, is prepping TV series “La Ruta,” teaming with Caballo Films, the production outfit whose partners include filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the co-creator of Movistar Plus’ hit “Riot Police.”

“La Ruta” – a working title – is set on the La Ruta del Bakalao, a legendary zone of nightclubs lining some 19 miles of a CV-500 secondary road between the Spanish coastal city of Valencia and its beaches to its south. From 1983 to 1993, this strip of road became one of the biggest and most vibrant club-scenes in not only Spain but Europe.

The series, in early development, involves further Caballo partners such as Borja Soler as creator and co-director, and Eduardo Villanueva as producer.

Soler co-directed and Villanueva executive produced and co-wrote Sorogoyen’s “Riot Police,” one of the most acclaimed of Spanish TV series this year, which world premiered at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival.

Barcelona – Paris-based production house La Fabrica Nocturna, a co-producer on Marcelo Martinessi’s Berlin prize winner “The Heiresses,” has boarded Spaniard Chema García Ibarra’s awaited feature debut “Sacred Spirit,” Variety learnt during the closing events at top Spanish development program The Incubator, run by the Madrid Ecam Madrid Film School.

Produced by San Sebastian’s Apellániz y de Sosa and Alicante’s Jaibo Films, “Sacred Spirit” moves between local detail and dystopic surrealism, in which half of Spain sets out in search of a missing girl while a Spanish Ufology association— UFO-Levante— prepares for a night of sightings. The fate of humanity depends on one of its members: the morbidly obese José Manuel, who hides a secret.

Chosen by Variety as a Spanish talent to track, Chema García Ibarra’s shorts – “The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5,” “Protoparticles,” “Mystery” – have been screened and awarded at festivals such as Cannes,...