A big new season for the small screen
Autumn returns with raft of new series including a third season of Black Mirror on Netflix and Woody Allen's new series Crisis in Six Scenes, to be shown on Amazon
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Bryce Dallas Howard starring in an episode of the new series of Black Mirror, the Twilight Zone of the 21st century, to be shown on Netflix; previous page: Woody Allen's Crisis in Six Scenes and Timeless
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A big new season for the small screen Arxiu. -
A big new season for the small screen Arxiu.
Everyone loves a great TV series, and after a summer that brought such pleasant surprises as Stranger Things on Netflix, the autumn makes a strong return, with novelties and highly-anticipated comebacks .
One such is Black Mirror, which in its dark and haunting way tackles the link between society and technology. Created by Charlie Brooker for Channel 4, this series of modern fables is something like The Twilight Zone of the digital era. Black Mirror starts its third season on Netflix on October 21, adding six new episodes to the previous two seasons of three episodes each and a Christmas special.
Netflix's new catalogue also includes Luke Cage (released on September 30) and the ambitious The Crown (November 4), an epic historical drama tracing the youth and first part of Queen Elisabeth II's reign. There will also be a second season of Narcos and a new Star Trek due out in early 2017.
Game of Thrones
While we have to wait until next spring for the next Game of Thrones, which this time will only be seven episodes, Movistar+ Series opts for British fiction, with the mini comedy-drama series Love, Nina (October 15) and the supernatural drama The Living and the Dead (October 26). It will also offer a number of US novelties. such as Timeless (Oct 4), about time travel ( from NBC), and television adaptation of the legendary action movie, Lethal Weapon.
As for comebacks, among the highlights is the fourth season of Masters of Sex (which began on September 12), the third season of Transparent (September 24, the third season of Madam Secretary (October 3), the second season of Mr Robot (September 7) and the seventh season of the comedy Shameless (October 3).
Meanwhile, the television landscape is due to change with a variety of new players on the scene. Until now, Movistar+ has been the main source of TV series, with a 70% share of the of the pay TV market. However, there are now new platforms ready to make their way into the audiovisual market, such as HBO and Amazon. HBO has signed an agreement with Vodafone to provide streaming TV, while Amazon's video service will be available at the end of the year. This also marks a trend of companies producing audiovisual content in the shape of TV series or films, and rather than just distributing content through on other channels, deciding to distribute it themselves. Examples are HBO's production, Westworld, a sci-fi story starring Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris (released on Octobert 2 in the US), while Amazon has the Woody Allen series Crisis in Six Scenes, a series of six half hour episodes with Woody Allen and Miley Cyrus, set in the 60s and dealing with a family that gets an unexpected visit.