Premium Soaps, Genre Blending and Bending, and Legendary Showrunners Power Up Spanish Titles at MipTV
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Top Spanish Titles brought to market at MipTV: “Dating in Barcelona,” (Filmax) Produced by Filmax’s Arca, Catalan public broadcaster 3Cat and Prime Video in Spain, a first season of “Dating in Barcelona” bowed last year in Spain to big ratings, both on its first-window debut on 3Cat and on Prime Video, where it became one of the streaming service’s most-watched debuts.
A modern take on romance and sex in an online age, “Dating in Barcelona” also reflects a swing in TV towards a lighter, more episodic fare, whether in crime thrillers or other categories.
Each episode features two dates which, as Variety has observed, play off each other. Powered in creative terms by Pau Freixas, behind iconic series from “Red Band Society” To “I Know Who You Are” And “Todos Mienten,” All Produced By Filmax, “Dating In Barcelona” features a top-tier cast, this time round in Season 2 led by such Spanish stars as Anna Castillo (“Nowhere”), Natalia Tena (“Harry Potter”), Óscar Casas (“The Orphanage”), Leonor Watling (“Talk To Her”) and Verónica Echegui (“Fortitude”). “Detective Touré,” (RTVE, Detective Touré AIE, Tornasol Media, DeAPlaneta, EITB) Based on the book saga by Jon Arretxe, and impactfully located in Bilbao – from its San Francisco multicultural barrio to its docks and chic new high rises, the tale of a cheery, attractive but paperless Guinea immigrant with acute skills of deduction hired to get photos of a husband with his lover.
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