Teleformat revealed to ttvnews its selection of the most outstanding fiction series of October.
International TV consulting firm Teleformat shared with ttvnews its selection of the most outstanding fiction series of the month of October.
The list is made up of series released during the past month and that, by ratings, impact or quality, have shone above the rest.
This month, Latin America managed to enter the ranking thanks to the Brazilian Bom Dia, Verônica while Spain also had an appearance thanks to Antidisturbios.
Turkey, always present in the selection, is featured with the successful adaptation of Doctor Foster.
Up next, the 20 most outstanding fiction series of October according to Teleformat:
Bom Dia, Verônica
Bom Dia, Verônica (Good morning, Verônica) is an eight-episode Brazilian drama-series based on the novel of the same name by Raphael Montes and Ilana Casoy under the pseudonym Andrea Killmore. Starring Tainá Müller, Eduardo Moscovis and Camila Morgado, the series follows Verônica Torres, a police secretary who works at a homicide station in São Paulo.
Brazil country
Network: Netflix
Production Company: ZOLA
Distribution: Netflix
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird (The Woodpecker) is a limited series created by Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard from the novel by James McBride. It tells the story of abolitionist John Brown (Ethan Hawke) from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson, Animal Kingdom), a slave boy who becomes a member of a rather motley family of abolitionist Brown soldiers fighting slavery in Kansas, United States.
Country: USA
Network: Showtime
Production Company: Blumhouse Productions
Adult Material
Adult Material is a four-episode drama-series that delves into the world of the pornographic industry through the protagonist: Jolene Dollar (Hayley Squires), a mother of three who is proud to be the supporter of her family economically.
Country: UK
Channel: Channel 4
Production Company: Fifty Fathoms
Distribution: Banijay Rights
Io ti cercherò
Io ti cercherò (I’ll look for you) is an eight-episode series, starring Alessandro Gassman. He plays Valerio, a father who investigates the alleged suicide of his son, helped by his ex, Sara, a policewoman. Together they begin a journey full of traps, which is an opportunity for him to make amends with his past, as a man and as a father.
Country: Italy
Network: Rai Uno
Production Company: Publispei / Rai Fiction
Distribution: ZDF Enterprises
Le mensonge
Le mensonge (The Lie) is a four-episode miniseries, based on Christian Iacono’s book about the Iacono case, a 2000 story in which a grandfather was accused of rape by his grandson before the latter retracted 15 years later.
Country: France
Network: France 2
Production company: France Télévisions / Thalie Images
Distribution: France TV Distribution
Soulmates
Soulmates is an anthological series, created by Will Bridges (Stranger Things and Black Mirror) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), which shows what would happen if in the near future science had designed a test capable of determining which is our soul mate.
Country: USA
Network: AMC
Production Company: AMC Studios / Fearless Minds
Sadakatsiz
Sadakatsiz (Infiel), whose international title is A Woman Scorned, is the Turkish adaptation of the British series Doctor Foster (BBC One, 2015/16), also adapted in France and South Korea, among other countries. The perfect life of family doctor Asya (Cansu Dere, Anne), much loved by her patients, takes a radical turn when she suspects that her husband Volkan (Caner Cindoruk, Kadin) is cheating on her with a young woman.
Country: Turkey
Network: Kanal D
Production Company: Mednova / Medyapim
Distribution: BBC Studios Distribution / Madd Entertainment
Miao Zhun
Miao Zhun (The Target) is a spy war serial that tells of the fierce Chinese civil war during the years 1945-1949. Su Wenqian (Huang Xuan) and Chi Tiecheng (Chen He) work in the same team of Kuomintang agents. However, the mission to kill Su Wenqian’s friend causes him to change his mind. After the mission, his hands can’t stop shaking, so he quit his job and wants to be a normal citizen again.
Country: China
Network: Zhejiang Sat. TV
Production Company: Arc Light Union / Dream Sky / EE Media / Give Me Five / Shanghai Ruixiang Film / Zhejiang Film & TV
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is the television adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book that director Philip Kaufman already turned into a film in 1983. The story revolves around the Mercury Program, the first US space program that NASA wanted to find a knock on the table after seeing that the Soviet Union had advanced in the raceto space thanks to the success of Sputnik 1.
Country: USA
Network: Disney + (SVOD)
Producer: Appian Way / Warner Horizon Television
Distribution: Walt Disney Television
Kikenna Venus
Kikenna Venus (Dangerous Venus) is a 10-part suspense drama series based on a novel of the same name by writer Keigo Higashino. Hakuro Teshima (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a single veterinarian, deputy director of the clinic where he works. When he was five years old, his father died and his mother remarried Yasuharu Yagami (Hideo Kurihara). But unlike his younger stepbrother, Akito (Shota Sometani), Hakuro did not feel part of the Yagami family and left after his mother’s death.
Country: Japan
Network: TBS
Production Company: TBS
Nuga Mworaedo
Nuga Mworaedo (No Matter What They Say) is a daily broadcast serial starring four characters, two men and two women, who firmly try to overcome their difficulties at work and in love while fighting against the prejudices of the world.
Country: South Korea
String: KBS1
Production Company: KBS
Lieve Mama
Lieve Mama (Dear Mama) is a six-part psychological thriller based on a novel by Esther Verhoef, published in 2015. Nurse Helen (Rifka Lodeizen) and her husband Werner (Guy Clemens), a successful businessman, wear a comfortable life with his three children aged 13, 15 and 17. Ralf (Shahine El-Hamus), 18, still lives with her parents. Her life revolves around her car, her friends and making money. One day, the young man lets himself be drawn into a criminal plan: to break into Helen and Werner’s house.
Country: Netherlands
Network: Videoland (SVOD)
Production Company: Fiction Valley (Fremantle Netherlands)
Antidisturbios
Antidisturbios is a six-episode series, mixing drama and thriller, created and co-written by Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen. A van of six riot gear is sent to carry out an eviction in the center of Madrid. Two or three teams usually attend, but since it is August, there are few troops and they must go alone.
Country Spain
Network: #0
Production Company: Caballo Films / The Lab
Roadkill
Roadkill is a four-part political thriller starring Hugh Laurie (House, The Night Manager) as Peter Laurence, a charismatic government minister on the verge of ascending to higher office. However, a series of enemies set out to end his public and private life.
Country: UK
Network: BBC One
Production Company: The Forge
Distribution: All3Media International
Qin Ai De Ma Yang Jie
Qin Ai De Ma Yang Jie (Dear Mayang Street) is a romantic serial starring a young woman and her love triangle with her two best friends in the 80s.
Country: China
Network: Mango TV
Production Company: Hunan TV / Noblemen Creation / Radiant Pictures / Ten Space / Youku
Barbaren
Barbaren (Barbarians) is a six-episode historical series set in the Battle of the Teoutoburg Forest, fought in AD 9, in which Germanic tribes allied to face the Roman army and try to stop the expansion of the empire.
Country: Germany
Network: Netflix (SVOD)
Production Company: Gaumont Deutschland
The Undoing
The Undoing is a limited series that follows Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman), a successful therapist who is enjoying the life she always dreamed of with her husband Jonathan (Hugh Grant), a famous childhood oncologist, and their son Henry in one of the most exclusive areas of Manhattan. However, everything takes a fatal turn weeks before the publication of her first book: a violent death crosses her life, her husband disappears, and then some horrible secrets about this person begin to come to light. I thought I knew
Country: USA
Network: HBO
Production Company: Blossom Films / David E. Kelley Productions / Made Up Stories
Penteuhauseu
Penteuhauseu (Attic) is a 20-episode series set in Hera Palace, a luxurious 100-story building that hides many secrets and hidden ambitions. Sim Soo Ryeon (Lee Ji Ah) was born into a wealthy family. Now she is an elegant upper-class woman. Arguably the queen of the building. Her husband, Joo Dan Tae (Uhm Ki Joon), is a successful man in both business and real estate.
Country: South Korea
Network: SBS
Production Company: Chorokbaem Media / Studio S
The Sister
The Sister is a four-part mystery miniseries that follows the character of Nathan (Russel Tovey, Years and Years), who after nearly a decade since starting his new and dedicated married life, shudders to death. marrow when she comes face to face with Bob, an unwanted face from her past, who appears on her doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions.
Country: UK
Network: ITV
Production Company: Euston Films
Distribution: FremantleMedia International
Schatten der Mörder
Schatten der Mörder – Shadowplay (The Shadow of the Assassins – Chinese Shadow) is a period drama that revolves around Max McLaughlin, an American police officer who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 with a mission to help create a police force in the chaotic context of postwar Europe.
Country: Germany
Network: ZDF
Production Company: Bron Studios / Tandem Productions / ZDF Distribución Studiocanal
