Series called teacups are usually associated with a British universe, but if we broaden our horizons and understand that this label serves to define period fiction starring women, stories from almost anywhere in the world can fit. One of Netflix's latest releases, the miniseries My brilliant career, could be considered an Australian teacup series with some touches of Little Women. It is an adaptation of the homonymous novel by the Australian Miles Franklin (1879-1954), who wrote this semi-autobiographical story when she was 19 years old. With only six episodes, it is currently the second most watched series on Netflix in the country.

American actress Hayden Panettiere died this Sunday at the age of 36, according to sources close to her confirmed to People magazine. The family has not reported the cause of death and has requested privacy while the circumstances are investigated. American media, however, detail that according to recordings from the health services that attended her at her home in Greenville, South Carolina, Panattiere would have suffered an overdose and cardiac arrest. Nevertheless, the preliminary police investigation rules out that the death is due to "suspicious circumstances".

"We all carry death behind us and no one is aware of it. From the moment you are born, they are giving you life and they are giving you death. Fortunately, not so many children die or not so many sons die, but it happens," reflects Paula Miras. She is the creator of the podcast Un dia més, focused on grief and its management, a personal project created from her experience as the mother of a son, Blai, who died when he was two years and five months old. "He died in September 2024 suddenly and totally unexpectedly due to a common virus. He was diagnosed on a Wednesday, due to a very high fever spike, and his viral condition worsened day after day. And even though we took him to the hospital on repeated occasions in a very short period of days, the doctors' hypothesis all along was that it was a viral condition and that everything that was happening to him was within normal limits. On Sunday he went into cardiac arrest at home and died suddenly," recalls this teacher by profession.

Clara Sans is one of the Catalan actresses who has accumulated the most television projects in recent years. The Barcelona native doesn't stop chaining series: Cardo, Celeste, Mamen Mayo, and this summer she will premiere the miniseries Toda la verdad de mis mentiras, for Netflix. In addition, she has joined the second season of the comedy Furia and is already preparing a film for September. All in all, this summer she has had time to rest, as she has not had any filming, and has taken the opportunity to readComerás flores, by Lucía Solla Sobral and published by Libros del Asteroide. The actress recommends the book, although she admits that she herself had doubts when she chose it because of the subject it deals with.

Tom Selleck is part of the television landscape for many people. For most viewers, he will always be detective Magnum, the most attractive and famous television mustache of the 80s. The career of this actor, born in Detroit, and who for a time was a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association, is not limited to the popular series about the Hawaii investigator. For another generation, that of the 90s and early 2000s, he is Richard, the ophthalmologist with whom Monica from Friends had a love story that was falling apart due to the different life aspirations of the two involved. Selleck's career is also explained by the roles he didn't get: Steven Spielberg chose him to be Indiana Jones, but the contract to play Magnum prevented him from starring in a saga that, perhaps, would have made him even more famous worldwide.

In the 1990s television, Heather Locklear's face was synonymous with the wicked blonde. The actress carried this label essentially due to the character of Amanda Woodward, considered one of the great villains of Melrose Place, a hit soap opera born from another title that also made a fortune in the 90s, Beverly Hills, 90210 (broadcast in Spain as Sensación de vivir). Initially, Amanda was only supposed to have a four-episode dramatic arc, but her appearance boosted the first season's ratings and Aaron Spelling, the series' creator, decided she would become a regular character.

Ever since its television debut in August 2020, Ted Lasso has earned the title of fiction's most beloved football coach. The protagonist of the eponymous Apple TV comedy, created by and starring Jason Sudeikis, is the archetype of the good guy who strives to make everyone around him happy, sometimes even forgetting himself a little. After a three-year absence, Ted Lasso, the quintessential good feelings series, returns this Wednesday with a new season that marks a renewal of the plot and characters.

Social networks, alerts, digital newspapers, but also paper editions, televisions, and radios. Currently, information can arrive through many channels and practically non-stop. Although being informed is essential for participating in democracy, in recent years it has been detected that excessive news consumption can take its toll. Psychologists call it information fatigue. ReachLink, a platform dedicated to mental health support, defines it as "a state of cognitive and emotional exhaustion that develops when exposed to the media continuously over time. It's not just about feeling tired of hearing bad news. It's a specific psychological response to the incessant flow of information that characterizes modern media consumption. You may experience it as a feeling of anxiety, numbness, or simply being unable to process one more headline."

We meet a short distance from her chess club, Tres Peons, in Gràcia, where on summer afternoons she trains children at a summer camp. Alba de Lomas, who is 23 years old and from Argentona, is the absolute champion of Catalonia and, in parallel, creates content for social media to promote a mental sport in which women are still a minority. Her path in the world of chess started a bit by chance, when she was still a child. "I started at 12 years old, when my father taught my brothers and me to play chess. I always say that at first chess didn't grab my attention much, but my brothers played many tournaments and I used to accompany them. Until one day, suddenly, they attracted me and I started playing it," she explains. She says there was nothing specific that made her click, but she does remember that she signed up for a tournament for non-federated players and won it. "That extra motivation encouraged me to start competing, but it was really from one day to the next," she details.

August is not a thrilling month when it comes to series premieres, but the few fictions that land on the platforms have a clear objective: to entertain without making us think too much. The calendar includes some new releases but also the return of already known titles.

During the nineties of the last century, Father Apeles (Barcelona, 1966) was a recurring television presence. Ordained priest in 1993, he built a parallel career as a commentator and polemicist, appearing on Canal 9 programs and, subsequently, entering the Mediaset universe through spaces like "Moors and Christians and The Martian Chronicles. It even had its own space, Quote with Apelles (1997), a talk show of ephemeral life that she co-presented with Rocío Carrasco, daughter of Rocío Jurado, and which was produced by Gestmusic.

Breaking into the industry is one of the biggest challenges for film or audiovisual communication students from various training centers and universities in the country. Opportunities are not many, and you need to be prepared to seize them on the fly. This summer, however, 38 students have experienced what it means to debut with a professional project by shooting Episodic, a new anthology series powered by the Barcelona City Council and Betevé, the municipal public television, and produced by Serielizados. The young people have participated in all phases of the creative process, from script development, direction, production, cinematography, music, art, or editing, among other technical and creative departments.

For some time now, footballers have stopped being simply athletes to become style icons, very often through association with renowned fashion brands. But finding the perfect styling is not an easy task, and it's most common for celebrities, when dressing, to receive advice from expert professionals who know much more about fashion than they do. Lamine Yamal, Barça's great star and one of the standout footballers of the 2026 World Cup, has also decided to rely on someone external to choose the pieces for his wardrobe. The chosen one to advise him is a person almost as well-known as he is, Pilar Vila, Rosalía's sister.

"And is this news?" is the question we often see in comments on gossip and pop culture news. And, obviously, they are not news that occupy the front pages of newspapers, but they are questions that we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at the bar counter. And this is what we do in this podcast: we move to a venue to review some social chronicle news that serve not only to keep up with the most prominent gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship or breakups.

How is a newspaper made? What does the person behind the byline we read every day look like? These questions, and many others, were answered at the ARA's Summer Party, which took place this Wednesday and included original speed dating sessions between subscribers and journalists from the company. It was the first time this activity had been held and, on both sides, the same nerves were detected as those that surface in a romantic date, although in this case the participants were not risking as much as supposed sentimental happiness.

In the midst of a heatwave, Andreu Buenafuente and Eva Ugarte, dressed for autumn, focus on filming one of the last scenes of El otro mundo, the sequel to El otro lado, the series by Berto Romero that mixes mystery, paranormal phenomena, and humor. The filming takes place in a large house in the Sant Gervasi neighborhood of Barcelona, and inside it is much hotter than outside, where there is still a slight breeze. Between takes, a makeup artist touches up Buenafuente while another person tries to cool him down minimally with a small hand fan. "Filming a series set in autumn in July during a heatwave is a stroke of genius, it's an added challenge that we didn't want to overlook. Really, you could raise chickens in there," says Romero, between laughs, once the scene is finished. The comedian, besides being the protagonist of the fiction, also acts as director, a task he shares with Alberto del Toro.

For a couple of years now, TV3 has found the key to surviving summers: British series. When the holidays arrive and Com si fos ahir says goodbye until the new term – this year the final episode will be broadcast this Monday in prime time – the public television's schedule is filled with English fictions. They are not strictly new, as most of them premiered years ago in their country of origin, but they usually yield good audience results, as demonstrated at the time by Dr. Martin or The Durrells. This summer TV3 is repeating the strategy with the following series:

The beginning of Tip toe, the HBO Max miniseries premiering this Thursday, is the kind of opening that sends a chill down your spine. The camera transports us to a residential neighborhood in Manchester, with its characteristic, identical brick houses. At the entrance of one of these houses, we see a woman screaming. She says something like, "He's a monster." Directly in front of her is a man, whom we understand to be her husband, with an unperturbed expression. Then, the camera moves and a woman appears on the ground, we don't know if alive or dead. There's still a final blow: the camera pans up and we see a man hanging from a street lamp. Then, the series flashes back ten days to explain how this hellish situation came to be.

The experience of some artists and the repertoires performed have made the difference in the sixteenth edition of the Cruïlla festival. The nostalgia card has won because Suede, Pixies, The Black Crowes and David Byrne have offered good concerts, some even extraordinary, and because the public has responded positively to the proposal. In total, Cruïlla 2026 has gathered 73,000 attendees, 9,000 fewer than last year, when a record of 82,000 was reached. But the decline is not explained by the, let's say, nostalgic days of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but because Wednesday, the day intended for the younger audience, has been less successful: Halsey, the headliner for Wednesday, only attracted 9,000 people, half of the 18,000 that Gracie Abrams had in 2025.

In this chapter we talk about Taylor Swift's charming wedding. "And this is news?" is the question we often see in comments on gossip and pop culture news. And, obviously, they are not news that occupy newspaper front pages, but they are issues that we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at a bar counter. And this is what we do in this podcast: go to a venue to review some social chronicle news that serve not only to keep up with the most outstanding gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship or breakups.