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."

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have been best friends for nearly thirty years. They met in the late 90s, when they both coincided in the film EdTV, where they played a pair of brothers. After that film, they worked together twice more: in 2008 in Surfer, Dude and in 2014 in True Detective, a series that was a critical success. The two actors are nine years apart – Harrelson is the older one – and both were born in Texas. For years, however, a question has hovered over both actors: could it be that, besides being best friends, they were also brothers? This mystery, based on a real suspicion, is at the origin of the couple's new television project, Brothers, which premieres this Wednesday on Apple TV.

Miquel Fernández (Barcelona, 1980) has a long career in theater, cinema, and television. He has appeared in series such as Nit i dia, La Riera, Cites, Benvinguts a la família and Fariña and has demonstrated his talent as a singer in various musicals and the contest Tu cara me suena, which he won. Now, however, he takes on one of the biggest challenges of his career: playing Ferran Adrià inGènesi, the series about the gastronomic revolution that El Bulli represented. In addition to Fernández's performance, another of the production's assets is around seventy of El Bulli's most iconic dishes, which were cooked specifically for the filming. This Monday, the fiction, which Adrià wants to be "the best culinary series in history," premieres at the San Sebastián Festival and is released on TV3 and 3Cat. Later, Netflix will distribute it in Spain, Latin America, and the United States.

Since streaming platforms appeared, the range of series available to us is greater than ever. At the same time, the waiting time between one season and another is becoming longer. This gap is starting to have an impact on viewing data, according to a study by the data company Luminate, which analyzes cultural consumption. A wait of at least a year and a half translates into a considerable loss of viewers.

Marcos Franz (Mataró, 1993) became famous thanks to his participation in Merlí, where he played Gerard. It was his gateway to television and the world of acting, but he did not enjoy it because at that time he was trapped in a manipulative relationship that destroyed him psychologically. The actor now speaks about this experience in the book Cuando dejé de ser yo (Alienta Editorial).

What makes some murderers and criminals end up fascinating us? This is one of the questions that journalist Francesc Soler (Roda de Ter, 1976) tries to solve in Els assassins guapos (Alrevés Editorial), a book in which he analyzes, among other cases, the phenomenon generated around Luigi Magione, the 28-year-old man accused of the murder of the chief executive of the medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson. His physical attractiveness has turned him into a sex symbol and has caused the crime to take a back seat.

The management of TV3 will open an internal investigation to find out why a mention of RAC1 was censored during Monday's broadcast of the play Dones de ràdio after Jordi Basté reported the case on El món a RAC1. During the Davantal segment, the journalist explained that in the play, the character played by Àngels Gonyanols makes a mention of RAC1: she is a journalist who works at a successful station and specifies that it is RAC1. Instead, when TV3 broadcast the play, the mention of RAC1 disappeared.

The film La bola negra, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, will represent Spain in the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars, as announced today by the Film Academy. The film prevailed over the other two proposals, El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Los domingos, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.

Dressed in Prada and with a new haircut, Zendaya has reaffirmed herself as one of the queens of fashion at any awards gala. The performer, who aspired to take home the award for best dramatic actress for Euphoria, was one of the most photographed on the red carpet thanks to a beaded dress with a V-neckline and a carefree pixie cut that is already shaping up to be one of the viral hairstyles of the year. The proposal was classic, but at the same time had a sexy touch.

If normally on Emmy night the series that grabs all the headlines is the one that wins the award for best drama, at the 78th edition of the television awards, which took place this Tuesday morning, the star was a comedy, La maldición de Widow's Bay, from AppleTV. The fiction created by Katie Dippold and set on a cursed island has confirmed that it is one of the sensations of the moment, sweeping the most important categories of its genre. It won the awards for best comedy, best comedy actor –for Matthew Rhys–, best supporting comedy actress –for Kate O'Flynn–, best supporting comedy actor –for Stephen Root–, best comedy screenplay –for Katie Dippold– and best comedy directing –for Hiro Murai.

On Monday night into Tuesday we will find out which are the most outstanding series of the year with the presentation of the Emmy Awards, which will hold their 78th edition in Los Angeles. The candidates to take home awards are fictions that in most cases already have a track record, but there is also some newcomer, such as The Curse of Widow's Bay, one of the surprises of this year. But before knowing which fictions are crowned, let's review five key names to keep in mind before the awards celebration.

For years, Úrsula Corberó's face has not gone unnoticed wherever she goes. Born in Sant Pere de Vilamajor, the daughter of a carpenter father and a saleswoman mother, she admits that she felt an "obsession" with cameras from a very young age. In fact, her career, now of international status, started when she was five years old and began doing commercials. "I remember it was watching Penélope Cruz in Jamón, jamón (1992) when I finally plucked up the courage to tell my mother that I needed to do something," she explained in 2021 to the magazine Vogue.

With a long weekend ahead there is time to do many things, also to start watching those series that we have stored in the pantry because we haven't been able to get to them yet. We select five thrillers that have been released relatively recently and that guarantee a dose of adrenaline.

Although 3Cat's daily programs have already started the season this week, the public television station presented some of its main bets for this season this Tuesday. This year, the common thread is fiction, represented among others by three premiere titles, and entertainment, with novelties such as the return of Crackòvia, the sports parody program, which will return to the platform starting in October.

In mid-August, the American entertainment world was stunned by the news of the death of actress Hayden Panettiere, who was only 36 years old. She was well known for the series Heroes and Nashville, but she had been working in film and television since she was 5 years old. She had grown up in front of viewers, like many other child actresses, some of whom have also met a grim fate. Besides Panettiere, in the last year three other former child actresses have died: Michelle Trachtenberg, aged 39; Sophie Nyweide, 24, and Daveigh Chase, 35. In all cases, the deaths occurred after years of struggling with addictions and various psychological problems. Another constant in most cases is difficult relationships with parents, especially when one of them is involved in their children's careers.