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When Netflix presented results for the last quarter of 2023 on January 23, several financial analysis firms, such as Morgan Stanley and Bernstein, decided: there was already a winner in the platform wars. In the final three months of the year, the company added 13 million new subscribers worldwide, the second-best quarterly figure in history (only behind numbers achieved at the height of the pandemic). In all of 2023, it added more than 29 million new subscribers. The total figure is now 260.28 million. Its revenue grew 12% year over year. It's the company of streaming with a lower cancellation…

The actor Carlos Areces has a collection of around 150 photographs in his home post-mortem which he collected in a book in 2021. There is perhaps no person better suited to lead the cast of a comedy set in a funeral home. “My relationship with death, I suppose, is like most people's: it obsesses and terrifies me,” says the actor, sitting in the cafeteria of this fake funeral home. “It's a topic that intrigues and fascinates me, but I don't have any kind of metaphysical or transcendent thought, I think it's like this and then it ends, which tinges everything…

In the turmoil of the recent riots they began in front of the Ferraz, PSOE headquarters in Madrid God, Country, Anvil (Podcast on the podium). This documentary series presented by journalist Miquel Ramos reveals, starting this Monday, the political, economic and international connections of a sect founded in Mexico in the 1950s and whose tentacles expanded into Spain after Franco's death. Neither the Church's unofficial investigations nor the repudiation of Catholic parents who denounced the recruitment and mistreatment of their children stopped its advance. Some names from this secret organization now hold public positions in Spain. Liberto Senderos, one of…

Just nine years after its premiere on TVE, The Ministry of Time is back in the news. It's because the BBC (without which I doubt I would be a screenwriter, I owe them so much) launches a project with the same name and a similar synopsis to the one my brother Pablo and I created at the time. It happens when the series has not been broadcast for more than three years. Yet the networks burn. His followers (l ministerial) defend it with passion, as always. The media covers the news. And with exciting solidarity and unanimity, audiovisual and cultural…