TVE has surprised by announcing that it will broadcast The law of the sea, his new original fiction bet, in its entirety in a single night. A broadcast that It won’t be a first either.Well, this miniseries starring Luis Tosar and Blanca Portillo It premiered openly this Monday, January 15 in In Puntwhich will offer its outcome on the night of this Tuesday the 16th.
Valencian public television, which co-produces this project together with RTVE, It was ahead of the national premiere and offered the first two episodes to a cumulative audience of 180,000 viewers, as detailed by the network in a note.
The premiere episode signed a 6.2% share and 101,000 viewers in the Valencian Community, while the second marked a 7.6% and 93,000 followers at a later time. The monthly average of À Punt was 2.2% of quota in the month of December 2023, the last for which there are records, so the fiction far exceeded the average monthly record of its channel.
According to the regional channel, the data of The law of the sea they suppose season record in their prime time records and they lead the ranking of premieres with quotas similar to those of annual ‘top’ emissions such as those of the Chimes (7.4% in 2023) or broadcasts of Failures.
Both chapters are now available to the letter on the official website of À Punt Media. The third and last of this series based on real events will be broadcast this Tuesday, January 16 at 10 p.m., before its national premiere this Sunday on La 1 on TVE.
This is ‘The Law of the Sea’
On July 14, 2006, José Durá ‘Pepe’ (Tosar), and nine other crew members of the fishing boat ‘Francisco y Catalina’ made the decision, protected according to them in the so-called “Law of the Sea”, to board a ship prepared for 10 crew to 51 Eritrean immigrants stranded ten miles from Malta, including a 2-year-old girl and a pregnant woman.
For nine long days, the ship waited for the decision of the European authorities. While the negotiations were taking place among the diplomacy of half of Europe, more than sixty people lived together in just fifty square meters.
At the same time, in Santa Pola, the couples of the crew mobilized public opinion, causing the media and authorities to become interested in the event. Also in parallel, the Spanish ambassador in Malta, played by Blanca Portillo, became fully involved in mobilizing the EU in search of a humanitarian solution.
Alberto Ruiz Rojo directs the entire three episodes, written by Tatiana Rodriguez y Victor Pedreirafrom this production by Studio60 and MCFLY Prod. AIE that is based on the real case of the Valencian fishing boat that rescued 51 sub-Saharan immigrants in 2006.
They complete the cast Sonia Almarcha, Víctor Clavijo, Alex Monner, Pau Durà, Lamine Thior, Carlos Serrano, Alfonso Lara, Teresa Hurtado, Eva Marciel y Paula Muñozamong others.