The universe of Game of Thrones continues its expansion with a new season of the franchise's most successful spin-off, House of the Dragon. The wait between the first and second season was two years and the series team is repeating the strategy. Fans have had to test their patience for two more years. Finally, on June 22, HBO will release the first of eight new episodes, which will be an hour long. HBO maintains the broadcast plan and the number of episodes per season —the first had 10—, and will release them weekly, every Monday, to offer the season's final episode on August 10. The platform has also announced that it will conclude the series with a fourth season which, following the series' timeline, is expected to premiere around 2028, and will conclude the Targaryen era.

The award-winning documentary series by Raül Gallego, Punt de no retorn, premieres its third season on June 22. It will be available on the 3Cat platform from Monday. Each episode will be forty minutes long and will continue to give visibility to current conflicts. L'ARA spoke with Gallego at the beginning of last year and, in the interview, the director explained the origin of the series, the choice of topics for the episodes, or the author's ability to approach extreme situations and people suffering the consequences of conflicts. But one of the achievements that the Catalan director probably did not imagine reaching at the beginning of the production was winning the International Emmy for Best Short-Form Series in 2024 and the Online Journalism Awards, in the digital short-form video storytelling category.

In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Mary Bennet is the overlooked and often ridiculed sister of the main protagonist, Elizabeth. In fact, Mary is a minor character who, in the book, does not have a plot of her own with substance, beyond being the butt of jokes when she decides to sing at social gatherings. But in The Other Bennet Sister, the miniseries that Movistar Plus + premieres this Tuesday, the introverted girl becomes the protagonist of the story: tired of being her mother's whipping boy, who always finds an excuse to belittle her, she decides to forge her own path and make decisions for herself. When all her sisters get married, she leaves the family home and moves to London to live with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner.

Hacks, one of the most critically acclaimed comedies of recent years, recently aired its finale. In principle, from now on anyone who wants to rewatch the series will be able to do so through the HBO Max platform, which has broadcast it since its beginnings. A few weeks ago, however, the creators of the comedy, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky, expressed their distrust regarding storage on streaming services and advocated for a return to physical media, specifically DVDs. They argue that in a time of high volatility in the audiovisual sector – with mergers like that of Warner Bros. and Paramount – it is more reliable to have a physical copy than one in the cloud, which is why they would like to bring out a complete edition of the series on DVD. The project of releasing a box set with the DVDs of all seasons, as was done years ago, is for now just an illusion in the hearts of the three creators.

The list of Netflix's most-watched series always brings surprises, and in recent days, the British miniseries The witness has unexpectedly climbed to the top of the rankings. The three-episode production, currently the most-watched series on the platform in Spain (titled El testigo and without Catalan subtitles), focuses on the real case of Rachel Nickell's murder, who in 1992 was stabbed in a park in southwest London while walking with her two-year-old son, the sole witness to the events. The story has a Catalan connection: the victim's partner and son, André and Alex Hanscombe, currently live in Catalonia, where they moved to escape the media harassment they suffered during the investigation of the case.

Relationships between two people with a large age difference often become a topic of debate. If the two people in question are your best friend and your daughter, the dilemma about the suitability of the relationship becomes very real. This is what happens to the protagonist of Alice & Steve, the dramatic comedy that Disney+ premieres on Monday, June 8, and which focuses on a lifelong friendship that is almost mortally wounded when he gets involved with her 26-year-old daughter.

Nausicaa Bonnín (Barcelona, 1985) is waiting to do the interview with ARA reading Garlanda, Maria Rovira's book, who confesses it's making her die of laughter. Dedicated to the world of acting from a very young age – she went on stage before she was ten – she conveys a sense of someone grounded, without airs and with great naturalness. This Sunday she premieres 33 días on Atresplayer, the first fiction series born from Carles Porta's factory and based on the case of Brito and Picatoste. Bonnín plays the Mossos d'Esquadra investigator in charge of the case.

Cape Fear is not exactly a new story: besides being based on a book –The Executioners by John MacDonald from 1957–, it has been adapted twice for the cinema. The first time was in 1962, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, and the second in 1991, with a film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro. Now this psychological horror story makes the leap to television with AppleTV's series Cape Fear, starring Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson. The fiction premieres on the platform this Friday.

A little over five years ago, on the beloved Islàndia of RAC1, Elvira Moral explained how she was abandoned, along with her siblings, at the Estació de França in Barcelona. It was 1984 and they were only 2, 4, and 6 years old. She turned to the radio looking for people who could provide clues about her biological parents, to reconstruct the past. Albert Om stirred things up and now, Carles Porta finishes the job in Abandonados, on Disney+. A story structured in four chapters that, despite the unease the case arouses, evokes great tenderness. Beyond the search for the parents, which is addictive and surprising, Abandonados moves you with its underlying plot: the affective bond between three siblings who have processed their trauma very differently.

The heat has already arrived, but the platforms do not lose the illusion that we spend time on the sofa and in front of the screen. Among the attractions of the June series offer, we find Javier Bardem revisiting a classic film title, a new heroine emerging from the world of Jane Austen, and more dragons from George R.R. Martin.

There are series that can be defined by their plot, but there are others that are defined by the mood they generate. Leonard and Hungry Paul, a small British-Irish gem arriving on Tuesday on Filmin (available in VOSCat), belongs to this latter category. "We wanted it to be a series that was like a hug, that the viewer felt they were in a slightly magical, but not too magical, world. That it was an interesting and pleasant world," explains to ARA Andrew Chaplin, who has directed the series based on the book by Rónán Hession (the novel has only been published in Spanish by Alpha Decay). In a way, the series' tone links it to other happy comedies like, for example, Somebody Somewhere, on HBO Max.

A group of children between 5 and 12 years old are lost and isolated on a tropical island after a plane crash. Without adults to control them or pre-established rules, they try to govern themselves, but reality imposes itself: violence always finds a crack to slip through and inequalities always make their presence felt. This is the premise of Lord of the Flies, William Golding's dystopian novel from 1954, which now arrives as a miniseries on Movistar Plus+ (it premieres in full this Thursday, May 7). Behind the production, which bears the BBC's seal of approval, is Jack Thorne, co-creator of Adolescence, the Netflix miniseries that also revolves around how the youngest are drawn into violence and rage.

The good weather has arrived but this does not mean that platforms are slowing down their pace when it comes to releasing series. This May, dramas decrease and entertainments with a sexy touch increase. These are the most outstanding series of the month.

The production Yo siempre a veces, set in Barcelona and co-created by Marta Bassols and Marta Loza, has won the award for best screenplay at the Canneseries festival, which concluded this Tuesday. The dramedy, which can now be seen on Movistar Plus+, follows the life of Laura, a girl from Santa Coloma who gets pregnant shortly after starting an intense relationship with Rubén, the owner of a bar in the Raval with whom she goes to raves. When they separate, Laura is faced with the reality that she must assume the upbringing of her son almost alone. The series shows the difficulties of being a mother in a precarious environment.During its run at Canneseries, Marta Bassols explained that the series "has a lot" of her own motherhood and that there are some parallels between her and the protagonist. "I am also from Santa Coloma, I also lived in Berlin, I got pregnant without thinking much about it and I stayed in Barcelona –like the character of Laura–. I also broke up and was left with a very small child, smaller than the one in the series, and I filmed from house to house," explains Bassols in statements collected by the Efe agency. Yo siempre a veces is Bassols' first production as a creator, who as an actress has appeared in other fiction such as Això no és Suècia and La Mesías and in films such as El futuro and Mamántula. The other creator of the series, Marta Loza from Asturias, has been part of the art department of films such as Dolor y gloria, by Pedro Almodóvar, or the music video Motomami by Rosalía. The Canneseries award for best screenplay was shared by Bassols and Loza with a third screenwriter, Almudena Monzú. The direction of the series also has a feminine touch: in addition to Loza, Claudia Costafreda and Ginesta Guindal have been behind the camera.

The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende, is arguably one of the most popular novels in Latin American literature. At a time when platforms have embraced literary adaptations as a formula for success, platforms have embraced literary adaptations as a formula for success, it was to be expected that such a well-known book would eventually have a television version, and an exuberant one at that. Prime Video premieres its adaptation of Isabel Allende's work this Wednesday, with Allende serving as executive producer alongside American actress of Mexican origin Eva Longoria.

Richard Gadd was an unknown actor and creator until 2024, when he premiered Baby Reindeer on Netflix, a miniseries that explained his experience as a victim of harassment and also sexual abuse. The production was a phenomenon that even obsessed some viewers – some supposed fans revealed the identity of Gadd's stalker and she sued the series and the platform–. After that whirlwind, the Scotsman premieres Half Man, a new miniseries with which he wants to reaffirm his authorial voice: a new, uncomfortable and impactful story about toxic masculinities, homophobia and dependency relationships. The series will be available on HBO Max from this Friday.

The second season of The Pitt, the HBO Max series that has recaptured the spirit of great medical dramas, especially regarding its commitment to realism, has ended. Not a veracity as a mere production flourish, but for the dramatic demand to connect with social problems that engage the viewer beyond mere entertainment. In this new stage, the dramatic tone has been intensified and the psychological dimension of the characters has been increased.

A few weeks ago, psychologist and content creator Sandra Parmo recommended a Korean film on her social media, 18x2 beyond youthful days, or in Spanish 18 years later. Quickly, several followers told her that they hadn't managed to find the film on the platform in any way. Parmo gave them a piece of advice: change the interface language to English, the easiest way to locate this title, which for many users seemed invisible. Are there really series or films that appear or disappear depending on the language in which we have Netflix configured? The short answer is yes, but the situation is a bit more complex.

At 28 years old, Elle Fanning is in a splendid moment of her professional career. This year she has been nominated for best supporting actress for Valor sentimental, she will be one of the protagonists of the prequel to The Hunger Games and this week she premieres a new series totally designed for her to shine. In Margo has money problems, which arrives this Wednesday on AppleTV, she plays a young university student who becomes pregnant after having relations with her professor, who is older and married. The girl decides to have the baby, but that means leaving school and financially supporting her new, small family. Her world will open up when she discovers OnlyFans, where she will create a profile and earn money by rating her followers' penises.

When Euphoria premiered in 2019, it took half the world by surprise. The series, which was an adaptation of an original Israeli title, showed adolescent disillusionment and anguish in a new way thanks to Sam Levinson's stylistic daring and managed to hook adult viewers even though, in principle, they were not the target audience for the production. After a four-year wait and voices claiming that the third season would never happen, the HBO Max fiction returns with an installment that has many chances of being the definitive farewell according to the statements of its protagonists. A good part of the cast are now global stars, although when the series started they were practically unknown. We review the five most outstanding names of , which in its third season will mix drug trafficking, sex, and decadence.