‘El commissaire Montalbano’ is successfully broadcast on La 2 and in the coming weeks more series from the transalpine country will come on Antena 3 and TVE
Spain has not been very focused on products from our neighboring countries, despite its cultural proximity and proximity to popular customs. Historically, Spanish television has focused on North American fiction, although Latin America had an unusual ‘boom’ at the end of the last century with its inimitable soap operas. In recent years, however, the trend has reversed. We are no longer surprised to see an Ottoman series in the ‘prime time’ of a major channel such as Antena 3 or German ‘telefilms’ in the after-dinner of TVE’s La 1 who also have our way of film consumption on television. changed . Now the target is in Italy, where the jump in quality and the stories of his series are beginning to attract the attention of the directors of our general channels.
The most recent case this summer, and the most successful, is ‘El Comisario Montalbano’, an Italian production that broadcasts La 2 de TVE every Tuesday and has become one of the revelations of the summer season. This is a series that premiered on RAI in 1999 and ended last year after 15 seasons and 37 episodes aired. TVE’s second channel has already offered it on other occasions in different time slots, but this time it chose to broadcast the fiction in its entirety, in a special broadcast that will culminate in the series’ final episode in October, ” The Catalonatti method’, premiered in Italy last year and still not released on free-to-air television in Spain.
Inspired by the novels of Andrea Camilleri, the commissioner Salvo Montalbano, who is played by the actor Luca Zingaretti, works in the fictional Vigata, province of Montelusa, with two peculiar companions. Despite being a man of the law, Montalbano doesn’t hesitate to break it to solve cases and crimes in rural Mafia Sicily with his characteristic cunning. His comics have won favor from the general public, of different generations and different countries, including Spain, where fiction easily exceeds 6% of the audience and half a million viewers on La 2, doubling the daily average of the channel and beating La Sexta, Cuatro or La 1 on TVE.
With fewer repercussions, on the other hand, Telecinco premiered this summer with ‘Blanca’, the revelation fiction of the current television season in the transalpine country, with an average share of 25.5% and more than 5.5 million viewers. Mediaset’s Summer Bet is a police series inspired by the literary saga of the same name by writer Patrizia Rinald, which tells the story of a young blind woman (Maria Chiara Giannett), an expert in decoding and analytical listening of audio material, who arrives at the San Francisco Police Station. Teodoro de Genoa police station, where he started a six-month internship. On Telecinco, it premiered as Audience Leader (11.8%), though it dropped to 8.1% in subsequent episodes.
In the coming weeks, the transalpine country’s commitment to fiction will also take place via Antena 3, with the premiere of the super production ‘The Wife’, which attracted some seven million viewers on RAI. Set in the 1960s, the fiction will be broadcast in “three unique nights”, as announced by the broadcaster, about the drama of María (Serena Ross), a young woman from Calabria who, in order to save her family of poverty, decides to accept the marriage proposal with Italo (Giorgio Marches), grandson of the rude Vincentian peasant Vittorio Bassi. Upon arrival, she is confronted with a totally hostile reality and above all with the rejection of her husband, still devastated by the loss of his first wife.
La 1 is also preparing to launch ‘Everything can happen’, the Italian adaptation of NBC’s Parenthood, which was premiered by RAI in 2015. 42 episodes of between 50 and 100 minutes tell the life of the Ferraros, a large family, with their teenage children and grandparents, who hide family betrayals among themselves.
Source: La Verdad
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