Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle's father, has been arrested in Florida for alleged possession of child pornography, as reported by the CBS News network. Last month it emerged that Markle, 82, was being investigated by Philippine authorities for allegedly possessing graphic child abuse material after his son, Thomas Markle Jr., reported him for files he found on a computer. The Duchess of Sussex has not had a relationship with her father, a figure who has always been controversial, for years.

Quim Gutiérrez began his acting career performing in Catalan and on TV3. Poblenou made him a familiar face and El cor de la ciutat further increased his popularity. From then on, his career moved to Madrid, and two decades have passed since the last time he acted in Catalan. Now, however, Gutiérrez is immersed in a new shoot that has allowed him to recover his mother tongue as a work tool: the actor is one of the protagonists of Pell de foca, the debut feature by Irene Moray, winner of a Gaudí and a Goya for the short film Suc de síndria. Gutiérrez has celebrated his return home by posting an image of a street in Barcelona on Instagram. "After twenty years I am filming again in Barcelona in Catalan and I am enjoying it a lot," says the text accompanying the photograph.

A step forward for Betevé in series production. Barcelona's public television premieres this Sunday Episòdic, an anthology that will adapt various Catalan theatrical and literary works. Although Betevé had already made forays into self-produced fiction, the new proposal is presented as a major project that aims to support new generations in the audiovisual industry. In fact, one of the distinctive elements of Episòdic is that it has been created, directed, and filmed by 38 undergraduate and master's students from various universities and film schools in Barcelona.

Canadian actress Carrie-Anne Moss became known around the world for the role of Trinity in the Matrix saga. The performer is promoting her latest project, the mystery series Yaga (HBO Max), and during interviews with different media outlets she has recalled her close bond with Catalonia and, more specifically, with Sitges. Before dedicating herself to acting, Moss worked as a model and it was during that stage that she settled in the Garraf municipality. The 59-year-old actress asserts that Sitges is one of her favorite places in the world.

The program Que no surti d'aquí, from Catalunya Ràdio, has won ex aequo —along with Lo contó la ràdio, from Onda Cero— the Ondas award for best radio idea. The space from the Catalan public radio, presented by Roger Carandell, Marta Montaner, and Juliana Canet, has been awarded for being a display of how radio has evolved and for "opening new paths in consumption habits among the young audience". The jury made the verdict public this Tuesday after last week's decision to postpone the announcement due to the train accident in Urda. The awards ceremony will be held on November 26th at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Artificial intelligence has ceased to be a futuristic technology to become part of everyday life. Now 3Cat places it at the center of a new series, LIA, which starting this Tuesday will be available on the platform. The fiction focuses its plots on four doctoral thesis students who have entered LIA (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), a pioneering program in applied AI coordinated by Rita Garcia, a character played by Emma Vilarasau.

After a very intense October regarding series, November arrives more moderate, although also with some notable titles. Among the proposals that attract the most attention is the premiere, after years of waiting, of the series from the Blade runner universe. And although we have not included it in the list, the second part of the second season of Rivals.

"Cross the catwalk!" It has been 25 years since this television catchphrase became popular. It was one of the key moments of every broadcast of Operación Triunfo, the talent show that revolutionized Spanish television and music and that this October celebrates a quarter of a century. On the night of October 22, 2001, TVE kicked off a new format that mixed elements of the reality genre, which was just beginning to emerge, and musical contests. After the third gala, when the phenomenon exploded, nothing was ever the same again, neither on Spanish television nor in the lives of the sixteen young contestants who had signed up for the program with the hope of making a career as singers.

At a time when series consumption is dominated by streaming platforms and audiences are highly fragmented, achieving a fiction that attracts a large volume of viewers can be an impossible mission. The BBC, the British television broadcaster, seems to have hit the mark with Ludwig, a gentle mystery that with its second season has become the most-watched fiction in the United Kingdom since the beginning of the year. According to the BBC, the first episode of the season has accumulated 9.1 million viewers in its first 28 days of availability. In Spain, Ludwig can be watched on Movistar Plus+, which premieres the second installment this Thursday, October 15.

Laia Marull (Barcelona, 1973) is rarely seen on television, the medium that kicked off her career with the series Estació d'enllaç. After having only made sporadic appearances in recent years, she now premieres El castillo, a Movistar Plus+ fiction in which she plays a police officer who, in the mid-90s and early 2000s, investigates the criminal and economic network of human trafficking. It is a raw and exhaustive series, which we discuss during a meeting in Barceloneta, the actress's neighborhood for decades.

After months of negotiations, this Tuesday Paramount closed the deal to buy Warner Bros. and thus create a great entertainment giant that will be called Skydance. The operation catapults the new company to the forefront of the entertainment and streaming sector, in direct competition with Netflix, Disney and Amazon. "Today is a historic day not only for Skydance, but for the entire industry," David Ellison, owner of the new media group, assured in a statement. To be able to add this succulent asset, the company has disbursed 99 billion euros, since Warner shareholders have been fully compensated in cash.

Carolina Ferre (Cocentaina, 1974) has been a familiar face on television for more than thirty years. She began her career at the now-defunct Canal 9 and has worked for Telecinco, Antena 3, La Sexta, and À Punt, where until 2023 she presented the Valencian version ofCatch me if you can. She has also been a collaborator on various TV3 programs, which selected her as one of the contestants vips of the new edition of The crossing, which this week has landed on 3Cat.

October will be a month with plenty of series to choose from. After running at half speed during the summer, platforms are hitting the accelerator and taking advantage of these weeks to launch some of their most ambitious proposals. This month will be marked by new versions of titles that have already had a previous life on screen, as well as various British productions. Catalan fiction will also carve out a space for itself.

After three editions with anonymous contestants, La travessa, the 3Cat adventure reality show, takes a turn in its format and incorporates famous participants. This fourth season, which will be available on the platform tomorrow, features eight pairs of well-known figures who must overcome different challenges in the Tramuntana mountain range, in Mallorca. Continuing at the helm of the program is Laura Escanes, who on this occasion had an additional challenge beyond presenting: some of the contestants, such as the singer Miki Núñez or the influencer Jessica Goicoechea, are her friends, a relationship that could not affect her impartiality. "At some point, it has been complicated. This season I was much more nervous than the previous ones because I felt more judged. Suddenly, there were people who knew me, even if it was just by sight, or people who have been working in television for many years and I felt that perhaps they would judge me more. But in the end, I am the presenter and they have to listen to me," Escanes explained today during the presentation of the season at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona.

Barcelona said goodbye this Sunday to the 2026 La Mercè Festival with the traditional Piromusical, which this year featured several novelties. On one hand, after years of having Avinguda Maria Cristina as the stage, this year the fireworks and music show was held for the first time from Nova Icària beach. On the other, another novelty was television-related: Dulceida, influencer and presenter of La gran cita, was in charge of hosting the broadcast on TV3.

The Catalan Book Week closed this Sunday its 44th edition with more than 130,000 visitors, 8,000 more than last year, and a turnover that will reach one million euros, 12% more than a year ago, pending the final figures. The organization assures that, taking into account the absolute sales data, the 2026 edition has been the best in the history of the Week. "We have experienced the best edition of the Week in its entire history, a fact that demonstrates the good work done in previous years and reaffirms the vitality of the book in Catalan, and we are already starting to think about the 45th edition so that it can once again be a great celebration of books and culture," asserted the presidentof Editors.cat, Oriol Magrinyà.

Naomi Campbell, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, Lily Collins, Michelle Williams, Kim Kardashian, Amber Heard, Lucy Liu, Elton John and Ricky Martin are just some of the celebrities who have turned to surrogacy to have a family. Recently, singer Lady Gaga and television creator Lena Dunham have also joined this practice, which is illegal in Spain, both supposedly aligned with feminist ideas, but who, when it came to starting a family, chose a path condemned by a large part of the women's rights movement. Although they are not the first to opt for surrogacy, they are two of the celebrities who have been most harshly criticized for doing so. Many of their followers have understood the use of another woman's body to gestate, a process that is usually accompanied by a financial transaction, as a sign of vital contradiction.

Sigfrid Gras, director of TV3, admitted in the CCMA control commission that took place this Friday that the removal of a mention of RAC1 in the broadcast of the play Dones de ràdio was an internal error. "It was our mistake," he said. However, he remarked that the management of 3Cat had no knowledge of the alteration of the work and that at no time did they give any instruction regarding it. On September 17th Jordi Basté denounced during the Davantal of El món a RAC1 that during the broadcast of Dones de ràdio on TV3, a mention of RAC1 made by the character played by Àngels Gonyalons had been removed. Specifically, in one scene, Gonyalons' character says: "I host a radio program on one of the country's main stations. It's RAC1, I don't know why I hide it. It's an evening magazine show, where I can do my own thing quite a bit… and have a large audience. I mean that on the radio, I am also the queen." But the phrase "It's RAC1, I don't know why I hide it" was not heard in the recording that TV3 broadcast.

For a couple of years now, Prime Video has decided to focus a good part of its offering on youth content, and the strategy is working out very well for them. Within this plan, one of the highlights of this 2026 was the premiere of the TV movie The Love Hypothesis, which can already be seen on the platform as of this Wednesday. The film is an adaptation of a book of the same title that has caused a sensation within the BookTok community, the TikTok users who share reviews and book recommendations, very often of the romantic or romantic fantasy genre.

The journalist Jofre Llombart, who was coordinator of El matí de Catalunya Ràdio, has explained on the podcast Focus that Manel Fuentes, who was the presenter of the public radio's morning show between 2009 and 2013, harassed him at work. "In 2009-2010, I suffered a case of workplace harassment by Manel Fuentes," the journalist states. In the interview, Llombart explained what Fuentes' behavior was like during the time they worked together: "Today I confront you, tomorrow I cannot live without you. Today I scold you, tomorrow I thank you. Today I congratulate you, tomorrow I criticize you mercilessly. Today I cannot live without you, tomorrow I threaten you that you will never find work in this sector again if it depends on me. You don't know how to manage this roller coaster well if you don't have the tools. The mistreatment is the entire roller coaster, both when it goes up and when it goes down."