Atresmedia films 'One less life in the Canary Islands', its new police procedural

Buendía Studios Canary Islands, in collaboration with Plano a Plano, begins filming 'One Less Life in the Canary Islands', a police procedural whose first season will have 5 50-minute episodes.

Ginés García Millán y Natalia Verbeke star in this fiction in which a homicide team solve a criminal case in each chapter. Both play, respectively, Luis Lacasa, a veteran inspector who must accept a forced transfer to the islands and adapt to everything he hates: the heat, the sand and tourists, and Naira Oramas, an inspector who loves the islands who, despite their differences and rivalries, will have to manage to form a good team with Luis. Paco Marín, Sergio Momo, Silvia Naval, Mari Carmen Sánchez, Luna Zuazu, Dariam Coco, Maria Garralón, Elisa Matilla, Thais Blume and Elena Ballesteros, among others, complete the cast of the fiction that is already being filmed in various locations in Madrid and the Canary Islands.

César Benítez, Emilio A. Pina, Emilio Amaré, Álvaro Benítez and Fran Carballal are the executive producers of One less life in the Canary Islands, while Lucía Alonso-Allende serves as co-executive producer. The fiction, created by Fran Carballal, Enrique Lojo and Curro Royo, is directed by Inma Torrente and Moisés Ramos Paíno, and will premiere on Atresplayer before reaching prime time on Antena 3.

The writing team is made up of Enrique Lojo, Nano López Moure, Pablo Manchado and Nerea Gil, con Fran Carballal as script coordinator and Rachel Searches as a script analyst. Other notable positions of One less life in the Canary Islands son Victor Tejedor Navares, director of photography; Emilio Perea, production director; Purification Adorn, art director; Alberto Luna, wardrobe manager, and ÁAngel Armada, coordinator of the editing and post-production team.

This is the synopsis of One less life in the Canary Islands: "Luis Lacasa, prestigious homicide inspector in Madrid, is forced to accept a transfer to the Canary Islands and adapt to everything he hates: the heat, the sand and tourists, but above all to Naira, a charismatic inspector, lover of her land with whom, despite their differences and rivalries, he forms a good team and at the same time, a complicity that questions his iron convictions. The cold and cerebral Castilian suffers achromatopsia, a visual dysfunction that makes him see life in gray tones, without color, a pathology that has amplified his secrecy. In this criminal paradise, the inspector reunites with his daughter Jimena, a renowned chef with whom he has been estranged since his wife died, in the accident that has consequences. Life on the islands will push him to leave his comfort zone, meet his daughter and be amazed by a disturbing detail, sometimes he perceives color in the inspector.