Cuerpo de élite

Cuerpo de élite is a Spanish comedy television series that originally aired on Antena 3 from 6 February 2018 to 8 May 2018. Consisting of an adaptation of the 2016 film of the same name, it was written by Adolfo Valor and Cristóbal Garrido and directed by Joaquín Mazón. It stars Octavi Pujades, Cristina Castaño, Canco Rodríguez, Adriana Torrebejano, Álvaro Fontalba, among others.

Cuerpo de élite
Genre	Comedy Political satire
Based on	Cuerpo de élite by Adolfo Valor & Cristóbal Garrido
Written by	Adolfo Valor Cristóbal Garrido
Directed by	Joaquín Mazón Mar Olid
Starring	Octavi Pujades Cristina Castaño Canco Rodríguez Adriana Torrebejano Álvaro Fontalba Ana Morgade Antonio Garrido Joaquín Reyes María Botto El Langui Ismael Martínez
Country of origin	Spain
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Production companies	Atresmedia Televisión MOD Producciones
Original release
Network	Antena 3
Release	6 February (2018-02-06) – 8 May 2018 (2018-05-08)

Premise

Somewhat trying to move away from the heavy focus on regional stereotypes so embedded in the namesake film,^[1] even if the characters display different regional backgrounds, the comedy follows a heterogeneous elite group of law enforcement officers at the service of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior coming from different units: a TEDAX, a Ertzaintza, a green beret, a mossa d'esquadra and a CNP agent.^[2][3]

Cast

• Octavi Pujades [es], as Ximo.^[4]
• Cristina Castaño as Elena.^[4]
• Canco Rodríguez [es] as Salvador "Salva" Baeza.^[4]
• Adriana Torrebejano as Berta.^[4]
• Álvaro Fontalba as Josemari.^[4]
• Ana Morgade as Montse Gil.^[5][6]
• Antonio Garrido as Efe.^[5]
• Joaquín Reyes as Julián.^[6]
• María Botto as Andrea Zimmerman.^[6]
• El Langui as Ramón Carreño.^[7]
• Ismael Martínez [es] as Iñaki.^[6]

Production and release

Cuerpo de Élite consists of an adaptation to a television format of the eponymous 2016 film [es] written by Adolfo Valor and Cristóbal Garrido and directed by Joaquín Mazón.^[8][9] Produced by Atresmedia Televisión in collaboration with MOD Producciones,^[8] both Mazón, Valor and Garrido returned in the same capacity (director and writers).^[9] Mar Olid joined Mazón at direction duties.^[10]

The series premiered on Antena 3 on 6 February 2018.^[11] The broadcast of the first episode earned a "magnificent" 24.6% share as well as 4,193,000 viewers.^[11] The broadcasting run wrapped on 8 May 2018 with a "good" 16.4% average audience share, even though the season finale only scored a 12.3% share (1,832,000 viewers).^[11] The series was cancelled by Antena 3 after one season.^[12]