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Anticipated Spanish TV productions in the works include a feminist bodice-ripper, a tech thriller and a teen prison drama.
Arcadia - Secuoya Studios
Following the action comedy Bajo Un Volcán, Madrid-based TV and cinema production company Secuoya Studios reunites with Cuban American actor and producer William Levy on Arcadia, his second series in Spain after Montecristo.
Levy stars as Pablo, a youth wrestling coach living quietly with his son Bruno in the titular fictional country while hiding a violent past in Mexico. Fatherhood has made him change his ways but the decision to flee with Bruno is something his son’s mother in Mexico has never forgiven.
Directed by Jorge Saavedra and written by Lidia Fraga and Jacobo Diaz, the action drama was shot entirely in the Canary Islands. Secuoya Studios, which has a first‑look deal with the UK’s BlackBox Multimedia and a partnership with French producer Sydney Gallonde, produced the series with ViX and William Levy Entertainment. SkyShowtime will premiere it in Spain.
Contact: Maria Garcia-Castrillon, Secuoya Studios
Billionaires’ Bunker - Netflix
“It is the most ambitious series I’ve seen in the history of Spain,” says Diego Avalos, Netflix vice president of content, Spain, Portugal and Turkey, of Billionaires’ Bunker.
Set in a lavish shelter designed to weather any conceivable disaster, the drama focuses on a group of billionaires forced into uneasy cohabitation after locking themselves away from the looming threat of a global war. The underground refuge morphs into a tense and claustrophobic arena, with two families on the brink of confrontation. The eight-part drama series from Money Heist and Sky Rojo creators Alex Pina and Esther Martinez Lobato is produced by Vancouver Media, which was also behind Money Heist. The ensemble cast includes Miren Ibarguren, Joaquin Furriel and Natalia Verbeke.
Contact: Vancouver Media
Cochinas - Prime Video
Produced for Prime Video by Eneko Gutierrez and Aritz Cirbian’s fledging outfit Os Lo Dije, Cochinas (which can roughly translate as ‘dirty women’) is a 1990s-set comedy following middle-aged widow Nines, who is forced to take over her late husband’s video store in Valladolid. On discovering it is bankrupt, she decides to specialise in adult films.
Co-created by Carlos del Hoyo and Irene Bohoyo, the series marks the entry into TV comedy for Screen International Spain Star of Tomorrow 2023 Andrea Jaurrieta, whose credits include Ana By Day and Nina. She co-directs alongside Laura M Campos and actress/director Nuria Gago.
“Cochinas introduces female characters rarely seen on screen and explores how adult women relate to their own bodies,” suggests Maria Jose Rodriguez, former head of original content at Prime Video Spain.
Contact: Os Lo Dije
Day One - Prime Video
This high-stakes action thriller explores the increasingly complex relationship between humanity and technology.
The cast includes Alex Gonzalez, Alba Planas, Asier Etxeandia and Jordi Molla, with Gonzalez playing a computer prodigy who fled Barcelona and the tech world when his sister died by suicide following online harassment. He is pulled back in a decade later, as a cryptic call from his former best friend and business partner brings the warning that humanity is in grave danger.
Filming took place this summer at some of the city’s most futuristic locations, including the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the ALBA Synchrotron research facility. Day One is directed by Marta Pahissa and Victor Cuadrado, with Cristina Pons and Luis Arranz writing. The series is produced by Zebra Producciones, NewCo Audiovisual and Documentales en Canarias, with public-private foundation Mobile World Capital Barcelona on board as associate producer.
Contact: Zebra Producciones
Innate - Plano a Plano
Eight-part psychological thriller Innate stars Elena Anaya and Imanol Arias as they confront family secrets, trauma and buried truths. Created by Fran Carballal and Enrique Lojo and directed by Lino Escalera and Inma Torrente, the series follows a psychologist whose life unravels 25 years after discovering her father was a murderer. Now a new death points not to him but to her own teenage son.
Innate is produced by Spain’s Plano a Plano Bilbao with Los Angeles-based Dynamic Television. Netflix has Spanish streaming rights. Plano a Plano, founded by veteran producer Cesar Benitez, became part of ITV Studios’ Spanish operations in July, when the UK production label acquired a majority stake. The company is now integrated into ITV Studios’ local structure alongside ITV Studios Iberia and Cattleya Producciones.
Contact: Plano a Plano
Los Secretos De La Cortesana - Netflix
The latest series from Zeta Studios, the production company behind Netflix hit Elite, explores themes of lust, lies and liberation in what is described as a feminist tale of power and pleasure.
Adapted from the 2022 novel of the same name by Estefania Ruiz and described by the author as “a mix of the historical and the sensual”, Los Secretos De La Cortesana is set in 18th-century Spain and follows a court artist’s daughter as she arrives at the royal palace and locks horns — and lips — with the crown prince, who is trapped in a loveless arranged marriage. Their forbidden romance stirs up dangerous passions and palace intrigue.
The series has been created by Carlos de Pando and Sara Antuña, and the cast is led by Carla Campra and Carlos Cuevas. The directors are Paco Caballero, Jota Linares and Elena Trapé (feature film The Distances). Shooting took place in summer 2025 in the cities of Madrid and Segovia.
Contact: Ivan Diaz, Zeta Studios
Mar Afuera - Atresplayer
A remake of Italian prison drama Mare Fuori (which translates as ‘sea outside’), Mar Afuera reimagines the series through a Spanish lens, centring on teenagers in a correctional facility facing personal struggles and gang conflicts.
The themes of the eight-part series, directed by Norberto Lopez Amado and Romulo Aguillaume, venture beyond crime to explore motherhood, toxic relationships, family and mental health, while celebrating friendship and resilience. Gabriel Guevara stars with Hugo Welzel and Laura Simon. The series marks a major collaboration between Atresmedia TV and Beta Fiction Spain.
Contact: Beta Fiction
Millennial Mal - Filmin
Millennial Mal is the sixth series backed by Spanish streaming platform Filmin, following the likes of Doctor Portuondo and Autodefensa. Produced by Mariela Besuievsky and Gerardo Herrero’s Tornasol Media and Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes, the series is created by actor, writer and comedian Lorena Iglesias, who co-directed with Andrea Jaurrieta.
Judith is a broke and unemployed fortysomething drowning in debt, who accidentally lands a university grant meant for students under the age of 30. She will need a full Gen-Z reinvention to claim the money, courtesy of two younger accomplices. The real crisis begins when Judith starts to believe her own lie. Iglesias leads a cast that includes Helena Caldeira, Afonso Pimentel and Vito Sanz.
Contact: Joan Sala, Filmin
Ravalear - HBO Max
This six-part series reunites Pol Rodriguez and two-time San Sebastian Golden Shell winner Isaki Lacuesta, the creative duo behind Saturn Return, which picked up three Goyas earlier this year.
Set in Barcelona’s Raval district, Ravalear is a gritty, character-driven thriller inspired by Rodriguez’s own life. Told through the story of a family-run restaurant, the series tackles pressing contemporary issues such as real-estate speculation, the housing crisis in Barcelona and the lengths people will go to defend what is theirs.
The series is produced for HBO Max by Barcelona-based Arcadia Motion Pictures, which has film credits that include Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts and the Oscar-nominated animated feature Robot Dreams.
The writing team unites some of Spain’s finest talents: Isa Campo, Edu Sola, Alfred Perez-Fargas, Roger Danes, Daniel Gonzalez and Maialen Velez. Ravalear’s ensemble cast is led by Enric Auquer, Maria Rodriguez, Quim Avila and Sergi Lopez, and the series is slated for a launch in 2026.
Contact: Arcadia
To Kill A Bear - Movistar Plus+
The six-part series To Kill A Bear (Matar A Un Oso) begins with the death of Cachou the bear in the Aran valley in 2020, which triggered a criminal investigation unlike any other. The series is from Jorge and Alberto Sanchez-Cabezudo, the creators of La Zona, See You In Another Life and Crematorium, one of Spain’s early premium dramas in 2011.
“It is an unusual, gripping crime story — the genre is turned on its head when the victim is an animal,” declare the Sanchez-Cabezudo brothers. “This absurd, almost surreal situation is taken seriously by everyone and ultimately changes their lives. That serious look at absurdity, with unpredictable, larger-than-life yet authentic characters, sets the tone of the narrative.”
Maria Rodriguez Soto, Pol Lopez, Eduard Fernandez and Nora Navas star in the series, which began shooting in August.
To Kill A Bear is backed by Movistar Plus+ and co-produced by the Sanchez-Cabezudo brothers’ Kubik Films, which is part of Newen Studios Group.
Contact: Kubik Films
Yakarta - Movistar Plus+
Following the award-winning comedy series Celeste, writer Diego San Jose reteams with director Elena Trapé on Yakarta, a comedy drama about a disillusioned PE teacher and former Olympic badminton player whose life is upended by a prodigiously gifted teenager.
Created by San Jose, the series is produced by Mediapro Studio’s 100 Balas outfit with Buendia Estudios Canarias for Movistar Plus+. The cast is led by Javier Camara and Carla Quilez, who won the best performance award at San Sebastian in 2022 for Motherhood (La Maternal).
Trape co-directs Yakarta with Camara and Fernando Delgado-Hierro, who co-wrote with San Jose and Daniel Castro.
“Our two leads are like provincial cities — there is no charisma, nothing special happens to them,” says San Jose. “I like people who are uncharismatic, they calm me. This series is our homage to those who lose even when they win.”
Contact: Javier Esteban Loring, The Mediapro Studio Distribution
Yo Siempre A Veces - Movistar Plus+
This comedy drama follows a woman who falls pregnant in a haze of love and drugs, only to separate from the father just five months after the birth of the baby. The series traces the struggles of this single mother as she rebuilds her life.
Rising talent Ana Boga makes her screen debut in the lead role alongside David Menendez. The cast also features Paco Tous, Maria de Medeiros, Belen Ponce de Leon and Marta Bassols.
The six-episode miniseries is a Movistar Plus+ original produced in partnership with Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Suma Content. It was created by Bassols and Marta Loza, the latter of whom directs alongside Claudia Costafreda and Ginesta Guindal.
“Making authentic series like this, ones that are closely tied to their creators in terms of subject matter, is what gives Suma Content its purpose,” state Calvo and Ambrossi. “Supporting new voices like Marta Bassols and Marta Loza is vital to our company. When they pitched the project, we immediately thought of Claudia and Ginesta [to direct].”
Contact: Marina Diaz, Suma Content
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