Punta Escarlata

Punta Escarlata is a Spanish mystery television series that originally aired on Telecinco from 20 July to 5 September 2011.

Punta Escarlata
Genre	Mystery
Starring	Carles Francino Antonio Hortelano Nadia de Santiago Kira Miró Elena Ballesteros
Country of origin	Spain
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Pablo Barrera Manuel Valdivia
Production companies	Cuatro Globomedia
Original release
Network	Telecinco
Release	20 July (2011-07-20) – 5 September 2011 (2011-09-05)

Premise

Two girls disappeared after attending an open-air dance in the fictional sea-side village of Punta Escarlata. 8 years later a girl from Madrid experiences a vision about the murder of the girls that leads her to the location of the corpses. Two police officers from Madrid arrive to Punta Escarlata to solve the mystery.

Cast

• Carles Francino [es] as Bosco Ruiz.^[1]
• Antonio Hortelano [es] as Max Vila.^[1]
• Nadia de Santiago as Lucía.^[1]
• Elena Ballesteros as Eva.^[1]
• Kira Miró as Carla.^[1]
• Fernando Cayo as Reyes.^[2]
• Álvaro Cervantes as Marcos.^[2]
• Macarena García as Raquel.^[2]
• Javier Coll as Doctor Rozas.^[2]
• José Sánchez Orosa as the priest.^[2]
• Chema Ruiz as Lucía's father.^[2]
• Juan Díaz as Rudy.^[2]
• Daniel Holguín as Jero.^[2]
• Carla Díaz as Patricia Rozas.^[2]
• Ana Rujas as Vir.^[3]
• Víctor Elías [es] as Ximo.^[3]
• Andrea Guasch [es] as Itzíar.^[2]
• Carlotta Cosials [es] as Anabel.^[2]

Production and release

The coast of the province of Tarragona near Altafulla (in the image the Tamarit beach and the Castle of Tamarit) was a shooting location

The executive producers were Pablo Barrera and Manuel Valdivia.^[4] The series was produced by Cuatro and Globomedia [es],^[5] and it was intended to air on the former TV channel. The series was filmed in 2009 in Altafulla, province of Tarragona.^[2][5] However, after the merging of the Cuatro and Telecinco's operators, the series was shelved for a while.^[6] The first episode eventually aired on Telecinco on 20 July 2011,^[2] at 23:26, attracting an audience of 2,054,000 viewers (18.6%), becoming the best fiction release on the channel since Sin tetas no hay paraíso in 2008.^[3] The broadcasting run ended on 7 September 2009, averaging a 12.8% share, slightly below the channel's average.^[7]

It premiered in the US market on 20 September 2012, aired on VME.^[8]

Series	Episodes		Originally released			Viewers	Share (%)	Ref.
			First released	Last released	Network
1	9		20 July 2011 (2011-07-20)	7 September 2011 (2011-09-07)	Telecinco	1,610,333	12.8	[7][9]

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No. in season	Title	Viewers	Original release date	Share (%)
1	"Soñé que despertaba"	2,056,000	20 July 2011 (2011-07-20)	18.6
2	"El pasado vuelve hoy"	1,719,000	27 July 2011 (2011-07-27)	16.7
3	"El adiós"	1,650,000	3 August 2011 (2011-08-03)	12.6
4	"El bosque"	1,470,000	10 August 2011 (2011-08-10)	12.4
5	"La sombra"	915,000	17 August 2011 (2011-08-17)	6.1
6	"Los bailes de Marte"	1,305,000	24 August 2011 (2011-08-24)	10.7
7	"El monstruo que habita en los hombres"	1,628,000	31 August 2011 (2011-08-31)	12.8
8	"La duda"	1,810,000	6 September 2011 (2011-09-06)	10.9
9	"La maldición del fin del mundo"	1,940,000	7 September 2011 (2011-09-07)	14.2