'Isabel', FAPAE award for the Spanish series with the greatest international impact

The Association of Audiovisual Producers presents this award to the successful series produced by RTVE in collaboration with Diagonal TV.

The series Isabel of RTVE continues to reap awards almost two years after the broadcast of its last episode. On this occasion, the historical fiction produced by RTVE in collaboration with Diagonal TV has won the FAPAE Award for the Spanish series with the greatest international impact, awarded during the first edition of the Spanish Screenings-Sevilla TV that is being held these days within the Seville European Film Festival. Edith Martinez, director of the Culture and Society area of ​​TVE, and Joan Bas, director of Diagonal TV, have collected the distinction.

The series directed by Jordi Frades and starring Michelle Jenner and Rodolfo Sancho, has been recognized as one of the productions that has the most impact outside our country, beyond what was achieved during its broadcast on Spanish Television.

The FAPAE award joins a long list of recognitions, among which the Ondas for best national fiction, Ondas for Michelle Jenner as best female performer, National TV Award, Antena de Oro, Iris Awards, Unión de Actores Awards... that accompany the excellent response from the audience, which established it as one of the most successful series on television, with an average of 3,500,000 viewers, 17.7% share, in its 39 deliveries.

Broadcast from 2012 to 2014, it chronicled the life of the Catholic queen for three seasons. The first focused on her training, being just a girl until her coronation at the age of 23, a key period to understand the personality of the young queen. In the second, viewers witnessed how Isabel had to win, together with her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon, the loyalty and support of the nobles to consolidate her reign. In the third, after completing the Reconquest of Granada and with the perspective of the Columbian adventure, the kings perceive the fragility of everything achieved. The last stretch of his reign takes place under the threat of the dismemberment of his project.