CABLE GIRLS: New Bambu Show Coming to Netflix April 28th!
Mar 31, 2016 13:12:54 GMT -5
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Post by northboundtrain on Mar 31, 2016 13:12:54 GMT -5
Cable Girls (Las Chicas Del Cable) Discussion/Filming Update Thread
QUICK FACTS
WHAT IS IT? A brand new show produced by Bambu (producers/writers of Velvet and Gran Hotel) and Netflix.
WHEN CAN WE SEE IT? April 28th
WHERE CAN WE SEE IT? Netflix
HOW MANY EPISODES? The first season will have 16 episodes total (50 minutes each), released in two batches of eight episodes each.
SYNOPSIS (from the official press release)
The series is set to begin in Madrid during 1928. The national telephone company opens its headquarters in the city centre and hundreds of girls queue up to get a job as a "cable girl" in the only place that represents progress and modernity for women at the time. Four girls, coming from very different backgrounds, will start work as operators. From that day on, jealousy, envy and betrayal will get mixed up with the hunger for success, friendship and love.
MAIN CAST
Lidia (played by Blanca Suárez)
Marga (played by Nadia de Santiago)
Carlota (played by Ana Fernández)
Ángeles (played by Maggie Civantos).
DETAILS ABOUT THE MAIN CAST (Link)
* Of the four main characters, one is a mother, one is a single girl "from the people," one is a girl who hides a secret, and one is a girl from the upper classes who struggles against her wealthy family's ideals.
* One of the four women will be a more prominent character than the others (as Ana/Alberto are the most prominent characters on Velvet).
* The main characters will tackle issues related to working mothers, limited job prospects for women of the time period, and getting the vote for women. (Note: The women of Spain all received the right to vote in 1931, just a few years after this show takes place.)
SUPPORTING CAST
Sara (Ana Polvorosa)
Francisco (Yon González, aka Julio from Gran Hotel)
Carlos (Martiño Rivas)
Pablo (Nico Romero)
Miguel (Borja Luna)
Mario (Sergio Mur)
Doña Carmen (Concha Velasco, aka Doña Angela from Gran Hotel and Petra from Velvet)
QUICK FACTS
WHAT IS IT? A brand new show produced by Bambu (producers/writers of Velvet and Gran Hotel) and Netflix.
WHEN CAN WE SEE IT? April 28th
WHERE CAN WE SEE IT? Netflix
HOW MANY EPISODES? The first season will have 16 episodes total (50 minutes each), released in two batches of eight episodes each.
SYNOPSIS (from the official press release)
The series is set to begin in Madrid during 1928. The national telephone company opens its headquarters in the city centre and hundreds of girls queue up to get a job as a "cable girl" in the only place that represents progress and modernity for women at the time. Four girls, coming from very different backgrounds, will start work as operators. From that day on, jealousy, envy and betrayal will get mixed up with the hunger for success, friendship and love.
MAIN CAST
Lidia (played by Blanca Suárez)
Marga (played by Nadia de Santiago)
Carlota (played by Ana Fernández)
Ángeles (played by Maggie Civantos).
DETAILS ABOUT THE MAIN CAST (Link)
* Of the four main characters, one is a mother, one is a single girl "from the people," one is a girl who hides a secret, and one is a girl from the upper classes who struggles against her wealthy family's ideals.
* One of the four women will be a more prominent character than the others (as Ana/Alberto are the most prominent characters on Velvet).
* The main characters will tackle issues related to working mothers, limited job prospects for women of the time period, and getting the vote for women. (Note: The women of Spain all received the right to vote in 1931, just a few years after this show takes place.)
SUPPORTING CAST
Sara (Ana Polvorosa)
Francisco (Yon González, aka Julio from Gran Hotel)
Carlos (Martiño Rivas)
Pablo (Nico Romero)
Miguel (Borja Luna)
Mario (Sergio Mur)
Doña Carmen (Concha Velasco, aka Doña Angela from Gran Hotel and Petra from Velvet)
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Original post below:
Big news today...Bambu Productions (the people behind Velvet and Gran Hotel) will be teaming up with Netflix to create a 16-episode TV series set in 1920s Madrid and featuring four different women who will operate the switchboards at Spain's first telephone company.
Production will start this year and the series will premiere in 2017:
variety.com/2016/tv/global/netflix-first-original-series-from-spain-bambu-1201742794/
After the 1905-set mystery-romance drama “Gran Hotel” and “Velvet,” a romantic drama set in a rambunctious and stylish high-fashion house in ’50s/’60s Spain, Bambu’s Netflix original series returns to history to tell the story of four women from all over Spain who come to work at the forefront of a communications revolution in the middle of Madrid – a place which represents progress and modernity. As in other Bambu Producciones dramas, emotions run a wide gamut. Jealousy, envy and betrayal mix with a hunger for success, with friendship and love but, above all, with dreams.
This is such exciting news...not only another period piece (yay!) but one coming out quickly, apparently. If production will start this year, we should start getting news soon, including news about which of the usual Bambu stable of actors and actresses will be cast in the new project.