Spain and the UK: A Television Dialogue Between La Movida and Peak TV

The Instituto Cervantes Manchester and Leeds continue with the seventh edition of the Hispanglia series, coordinated by Professor Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds), with the conversation "Spain and the UK: A Television Dialogue Between La Movida and Peak TV" featuring Concepción Cascajosa.

Spain and the UK have maintained a fertile dialogue through television over the last 40 years. British series such as Upstairs, Downstairs remain an icon of prestige and quality in Spain, but British counterculture also sneaked onto the screen as a synonym for creative freedom, in musical programmes such as La edad de oro and fiction such as The Young Ones. More recently, during a golden age of serialised fiction known as Peak TV, Spanish series such as Locked Up and Élite are gaining popularity in the UK. During this dialogue, we will review different milestones in the relationship between Spain and the UK through television and what they say about the cultural evolution of both countries

Concepción Cascajosa Virino is a Senior Lecturer of Television Studies and Head of the Department of Communication at the University Carlos III of Madrid. She is the author of several academic publications about the Spanish TV drama industry, including articles in journals such as Hispanic Research Journal, Feminist Media Studies, Television & New Media and Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies. Since 2021, she has served on the Board of Directors of Radiotelevisión Española as a non-executive member and writes a monthly column in Fotogramas, the leading film magazine in Spain, about television fiction.