Drama (Spanish TV series)
{{short description|Spanish television series}}
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| genre = Comedy
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- Dani Amor
- Oriol Pérez
- Charlie Pee
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| creator = Dani Amor
| director = Ginesta Guindal
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| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Elisabet Casanovas
- Artur Busquets
- Júlia Bonjoch
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| country = Spain
| language = {{Plainlist|
- Catalan
- Spanish
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| num_episodes = 6
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| runtime = 25 min (approx.)
| company = {{Plainlist|
- RTVE
- {{ill|El Terrat|es}}
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| network = playz
| first_aired = {{Start date|df=yes|2020|02|04}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2020|02|25|df=y}}
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Drama is a Spanish streaming television series produced by RTVE and El Terrat which stars Elisabet Casanovas, Artur Busquets and Júlia Bonjoch. It features both Catalan and Spanish language dialogue, with roughly a 70%–30% distribution. Originally released in RTVE's Playz in February 2020, its subsequent broadcasting run on the Catalan regional broadcaster TV3 generated controversy in Catalonia.
Premise
The fiction follows África, a 23-year-old woman living in Barcelona in an apartment shared with Jordi (Artur Busquets) and Scarlett (Júlia Bonjoch) who gets pregnant but she does not know by whom.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20200110/472805180936/elisabet-casanovas-vuelve-a-las-pantallas-como-protagonista-de-drama.html|website=La Vanguardia|title=Elisabet Casanovas vuelve a las pantallas como protagonista de "Drama"|date=10 January 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/tele/20200315/elisabet-casanovas-bilinguismo-suma-riqueza-cultural-7883023|website=El Periódico|title=Elisabet Casanovas: "El bilingüismo es una suma de riqueza cultural"|date=15 March 2020|first=Marisa de|last=Dios}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/television/20200210/473285372282/drama-trae-a-la-television-la-angustia-del-aborto-en-clave-de-comedia.html|website=La Vanguardia|date=10 February 2020|first=Francesc|last=Puig|title='Drama' trae a la televisión la angustia del aborto en clave de comedia}}
Cast
;Starring
- Elisabet Casanovas as África.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/television/series-tv/2020-06-30/serie-drama-tve-tv3-criticas-bilinguismo-respuesta-creador_2661971/|website=El Confidencial|title=La serie 'Drama' (RTVE) salta a TV3 con polémica por su bilingüismo: "De guionista a genocida en un día"|date=30 June 2020|first=Nayín|last=Costas}}
- Artur Busquets as Jordi.
- Júlia Bonjoch as Scarlett.
;Other
{{Column list|
- {{ill|Ignatius Farray|es}} as África's father.
- {{ill|Álex Maruny|es}}.
- Carla Linares.
- Iñaki Mur.
- Paula Jornet.
- Aimar Vega.
- Eduard Buch.
- Laura Weissmahr.
- {{ill|Mireia Portas|ca|Mireia Portas Boluda}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/drama-i-el-plaer-de-follar-se-la-llengua-109725|website=Núvol|title='Drama' i el plaer de follar-se la llengua|first=Joan|last=Burdeus|date=30 June 2020}}
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Production and release
Produced by RTVE and {{ill|El Terrat|es}}{{Cite web|url=https://vertele.eldiario.es/noticias/Drama-serie-TVE-El-Terrat-salto-Playz-a-TV3_0_2243175683.html|website=Vertele!|publisher=eldiario.es|title=La serie de TVE y El Terrat 'Drama' da el salto de Playz a TV3|date=22 June 2020}} and created by Dani Amor, the series was directed by Ginesta Guindal whereas Oriol Pérez and Charlie Pee joined Amor in the writing team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cineytele.com/2020/06/25/drama-de-playz-a-tv3/|website=Cine y Tele|date=25 June 2020|title='Drama', de Playz a TV3}} The series was shot with a 70% share of the dialogue in Catalan and a 30% in Spanish.{{Cite web|title=El debat sobre el castellà a TV3 torna al primer pla amb 'Drama'|first1=Àlex|last1=Gutiérrez|first2=Alejandra|last2=Palés|website=Ara|date=July 2020 |url=https://www.ara.cat/media/debat-sobre-castella-tv3-drama_1_1104986.html}} Consisting of 6 episodes featuring a running time of around 25 minutes, the series premiered on 4 February 2020 on Playz, RTVE's platform dedicated to streaming content for young people.
RTVE granted TV3 the broadcasting rights of the series in exchange for the first season of Merlí.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/series/20200630/482035809454/drama-tv3-serie-bilingue-castellano.html|website=La Vanguardia|title=El paso de 'Drama' por TV3 deviene en drama por la notable presencia del castellano en la serie|date=30 June 2020|first=Pere|last=Solà Gimferrer}} The first two episodes debuted in prime time on TV3 on 29 June 2020. The airing of the first two episodes on TV3 sparked a great deal of controversy and public debate in Catalonia, with online critics decrying the presence of the Spanish language in the Catalan public broadcaster surfaced, further increasing after the Catalan culture minister Mariàngela Vilallonga joined the critics, defending that "there is too much Castilian (Spanish) in TV3".{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/television/20200702/govern-catalan-tv3-emitir-serie-bilingue-castellano/501701519_0.html|website=Bluper|publisher=El Español|title=El Govern catalán, contra TV3 por emitir una serie bilingüe en castellano|date=2 July 2020}}
{{Series overview
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{{Episode list
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|Title = Yuri
|DirectedBy = Ginesta Guindal
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|Title = Quim
|DirectedBy = Ginesta Guindal
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2020|02|04|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|Title = Senyor X
|DirectedBy = Ginesta Guindal
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2020|02|04|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|Title = Eric
|DirectedBy = Ginesta Guindal
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2020|02|11|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = Gorka
|DirectedBy = Ginesta Guindal
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2020|02|18|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = Barbara
|DirectedBy = Ginesta Guindal
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2020|02|25|df=y}}
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References
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{{Televisión Española original series}}
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Category:Playz original programming
Category:2020s Spanish comedy television series
Category:2020 Spanish television series debuts
Category:Television shows set in Barcelona
Category:Catalan-language television shows