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We have a 2023 full of good series, with the impact of the endings of Succession, The Wonderful Mrs. Maisel, Ted Lasso or Barry, the phenomenon of The Last of Us, the surprise of Bronca, the satisfactory returns of The Bear or Yellowjackets, among many others, but there are still many highly anticipated projects. Some of them already have a premiere date on Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Disney + and other platforms, there are others that are simply announced for this year or are expected to arrive before the end of 2023.

Nothing is certain, and it is difficult to know what to expect with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike in full boil, to which the Screen Actors Guild strike has been added, so it is not easy to know exactly how the broadcasts will develop, or what strategy the platforms will take to dose the productions they have finished, If they will continue to release their finished fiction at the same pace or if they will seek to make a fridge by freezing premieres. Be that as it may, the planned dates could change and those expected by the end of the year, be delayed.

This final stretch of August has begun with two of the most acclaimed fan phenomena. Ahsoka (Disney+) arrived last Tuesday as a live-action extension of the Star Wars Rebels series with which Lucasfilm hopes to regain the confidence of fans of the galactic saga before Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which is supposed to premiere this fall. Meanwhile, Netflix is betting big again by adapting one of the most beloved anime with One Piece, scheduled for August 31, hoping to remove the bad taste left by the Cowboy Bebop fiasco two years ago.

Rosario Dawson, at Ahsoka.DISNEY+

Precisely in Netflix they begin the fall with the end of one of their most refreshing comedies, Sex Education, which will see its season 4 on September 21 with the promise of a change of formula, in the middle of a closing of doors of Moordale and the students having to move to another institution, more liberal than their followers are accustomed.

At some point, season 3 of The Bridgerton will also arrive on the platform, in which Nicola Coughlan and Colin Bridgerton are the protagonist couple. The great success of Shonda Rhimes will change the order of the literary saga of Julia Quinn and has signs that Regé-Jean Pagé could be back. The comedy also continues on other platforms with the triumphant return to HBO Max of Hacks, whose third season was going to see the light last May but has suffered an indefinite delay and conditioned by the Hollywood screenwriters' strike.

Gillian Anderson plays Jean Milburn and Asa Butterfield, Otis Milburn in season 4 of Netflix's Sex Education.

Also with humor, but entering the field of half-haired detectives, Poker Face has finally arrived, the acclaimed series of Rian Johnson murder cases with Natasha Lyonne that, after nine months of delay, an almost perfect balance of criticism and four Emmy nominations, will finally be seen in Spain through SkyShowtime from September 20. More crimes with a light tone, this time with white glove robberies will appear in October in the third season of Lupin, the end of a long wait since June 2021 to reconnect with the character of Omar Sy and his purpose to change his life outside France.

High-level miniseries

The miniseries will return with added prestige in The Regime (HBO Max) in which Kate Winslet returns after the success of Mare of Easttown, leading a project that takes place inside a palace in a European regime where society begins to crumble and that still has no release date. The Lady of the Lake will bring together none other than Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong'o, in the adaptation of the homonymous novel by Laura Lippman, about a housewife who becomes an investigative journalist after a crime in Baltimore in the 60s. It will soon premiere on Apple TV +, the platform that remains faithful to its profile with pedigree, after triumphs such as Locked up with the devil last year.

Kate Winslet plays a European dictator in The Regime.HBO MAX

The Second World War returns with force in two black label projects, on the one hand The Light You Can't See that Netflix premieres on November 2, a drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr, set in Nazi-occupied France, which will take the form of a four-episode miniseries. On the other, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks return to join forces after making their mark on television with Blood Brothers and The Pacific. Now they bring a third spiritual part in The Masters of the Air (Apple TV +), addressing the true story of a group of bomber pilots during the same armed conflict, a theme that the director touched, under a fantastic lens, in his episode of the series Tales of Wonder.

Horror with cache will also return to the screen on October 12 in the long-awaited The Fall of the House of Usher by Mike Flanagan in what will be his definitive farewell to Netflix, a variation of his haunted house stories after The Curse of Hill House that will adapt the master of the genre Edgar Allan Poe and, in the same style that The Curse of Bly Manor did with Henry James, he will use the titular story as a semi-anthological continent of several of the writer's stories. Undated continues at this time the fourth season of the amazing Evil, the whim of the marriage Robert and Michelle King to ironize about science, religion, the supernatural genre itself and the American sociocultural state without renouncing monsters, scares and visions that sometimes disturb Prime Video.

Science fiction, from cinema to the small screen

Pedro Alonso returns to put himself in the shoes of the head of the gang of robbers of La casa de papel with Berlin.NETFLIX

Disney+ will burn its latest cartridges of Marvel series with titles like Echo, from which it is not known what to expect being a totally new character. Better known is Loki, which in its second season (premiere on October 6) will try to organize all the ramifications of the multiverse appeared in the films of Phase 4. After his cameo in Wakanda Forever, autumn will allow us to get to know Ironheart better, Tony Stark's Gen Z substitute and, if we did not have enough secondary expansions, we will also have double ration of Agatha: Coven of Chaos, which will have to convince that the character is more than the joke of a song in WandaVision.

And if with all of them the platform does not manage to remove the bad taste in the mouth of Secret Invasion, it will have a new opportunity with the new season of What would happen if...?, in which there will be alternative stories in the timeline known in the Marvel cinematic universe with Spider-Man, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Shang-Chi or Thor.

The big franchises will also reintroduce parallel stories, such as the case of Prime Video's Gen V, an extension of its The Boys franchise, with younger protagonists to approach the turbulent life in the United States high schools in the era of greater shootings in its history. Also on the same platform, John Wick will go from the cinema to the small screen in The Continental, which will delve into the world of mafia and ultra-organized crime of Keanu Reeves' character from September 22, and will rescue the story of the hotel director, a young Winston Scott, during the 70s.

Frame of La Mesías, the new series by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, with the debut as an actress of Amaia.MOVISTAR PLUS+

Also from the theaters to the television come Dune: The Sisterhood and The Penguin to HBO Max, two spin-offs of Dune, two bets of Warner Bros. Discovery to extend their brands and properties with the seal of success at the box office as an infallible ambassador.

The most anticipated Spanish series

The Spanish series still have a lot to say in 2023, and half the world is waiting for Netflix to premiere Berlin in December, the spin-off of La casa de papel that will work as a prequel with the character of Pedro Alonso, as it was preparing the end of the series, in which we saw flashbacks of the character with the keys to the last great blow of Dalí's band. With one of the stars of that one, Úrsula Corberó, will also arrive on the platform El cuerpo en llamas on September 8, a story that is inspired by the real crime of the Guardia Urbana, the case of a police officer who appeared totally charred in a car in 2017, a great scandal with love triangles, suspicions and betrayals of which a documentary miniseries was made on TV3.

Highly anticipated is the adaptation of Red Queen that Prime Video plans to premiere at the end of 2023, in which Vicky Luengo will try to overcome her great role in Antidisturbios by getting into the skin of the protagonist of the novels of Juan Gómez Jurado, one of the most read thrillers in recent years in Spain, that comes with the seal of quality of director Koldo Serra, accompanying Amaya Muruzábal as showrunner.

Promotional image of Romancero, the new horror series by Fernando Navarro inspired by the universe of Federico García Lorca.PRIME VIDEO

Also on Prime Video will appear Los Farad, about the Marbella of the 80s, but the one that is really generating expectation is La Mesías the new project of Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo for Movistar Plus + after the success of Veneno. The directors return to the theme of religion, which they already explored in The Call, and now tell the story of a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism who sees his life turned upside down when he sees the video of a Christian pop group in the style of Flos Mariae.

In Spain we also have terror, and returns with 30 coins, the toy of Álex de la Iglesia that, after its tremendous success on HBO Max, returns with eight new episodes in October. The series has achieved an international expansion that has not achieved very awarded titles and returns with more action, monsters, Paul Giamatti as a villain and the long-awaited signing of Najwa Nimri.

Very promising also seems Romancero, which Prime Video will premiere at the end of the year, in which Fernando Navarro, screenwriter of the dark Veronica, brings us a story inspired by Gothic literature, witchcraft and the poetry of Federico García Lorca in a desert and cruel south. For his part, Berto Romero combines his humor with supernatural terror in El otro lado de Movistar Plus + that will include mystery, costumbrismo cañí and the exhibition of patriotic parapsychologists in the style of Jiménez del Oso.

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