User:Mawgrit/Águila Roja

Águila Roja - TVE series ... Águila roja is a television adventure series set in Spain during the Golden Age (17th century). Produced by Globomedia for TVE, Spain's public-television network, La 1 broadcast the first episode on February 19, 2009. The first season ended on May 21 with a television viewership of almost thirty percent.

The second season began January 7, 2010 and was broadcast without commercial breaks, like the rest of the channel's programming. This season ended on April 8, 2010 with almost six million viewers.

With a budget of approximately one million euros, Águila roja has become Spain's most watched television series after two years of broadcasting. Its success has led to the launching of a movie version which opened April 20, 2011.

The third season ran from September 23 to October 10, 2010(November 4th for television viewers), but some episodes, that should have been in the fourth season, have been added to the third by the producers. As a result, episodes 34 to 39 that seem to belong to the fourth season, have become part of the third.

The fourth season began October 17, 2011. On October 24th, Águila roja marked its second audience record for this series with 6,391,000 million viewers (31.1% of television viewers). With each episode transmitted in October 2011, the show's viewership has steadily increased.

Setting

The series is set in Spain, around the year 1669, during the reign of Phillip IV. According to the story, the two protagonists (Gonzalo and Hernán) were Phillip's children by a woman he had seduced - Laura de Montignac. The life of the doctor and nobleman Juan de Calatrava, Duke of Velasco and Fonseca and Spanish grandee, also figures in this story. The earth's rotation around the sun had barely just been discovered, and science was still not recognized by the Catholic Church. The setting is the city of Madrid. In 1656, Madrid had some 125,000 inhabitants, from whom the characters emerge.