We can now see the first images of The favorite 1922the series that aims to make Telecinco audiences fall in love with it. This is one of Mediaset España’s main fiction bets for 2025 and the first series that the group is making with Bambú Producciones (Velvet, Grand Hotel). A period story (more precisely in the Madrid of a century ago) in which the struggle for love, intrigue, resilience and the passion for cooking are intertwined, where the role of women and their strength are of great importance in the plot, in which. Veronica Sanchez And Luis Fernández They will work hand in hand as protagonists. The favorite 1922 There will be two seasons and, at the moment, the exact release date is unknown. Telecinco, after the success, in 2024, of The Marquis, wants to continue to rely on fiction and on the motto of maintaining quality rather than quantity.
“The Favorite 1922: summary”
In Seville in 1922, the Marquise Elena de Valmonte (Veronica Sanchez), a cultured woman with a privileged position, spends hours in the kitchen alongside the service, devoting her energy to her great passion, cooking, while she feels trapped in an unhappy marriage with Adolfo, her authoritarian husband who belittles it down to the smallest detail. opportunity and aspires to lead another life. One evening, after offering one of their famous dinners in their palace, Elena and Cecilia (Raquel Querol), his faithful servant, are involved in an unfortunate incident that will change their lives forever.
Having become fugitives, they arrived in Madrid and took refuge in the premises of a restaurant closed years ago. After visiting its kitchens, Elena plans to reopen it and make it one of the best in the city. In her efforts to realize her business dream, she contacted Julio (Luis Fernández), the handsome owner of the establishment, who rents the restaurant to him without informing him of the fine print. Determined, Elena and Cecilia begin their team search among the best cooks and waiters in the country, choosing Ana Ferrer (Andrea Duro) as room manager; Lourdes Mendieta (Maribel Salas) as a cook; and Rosa (Elena Maroto) as a pastry chef. For his part, Julio includes Roberto (Joel Sanchez).
Excited by the new opportunity that life offers them, the five women reopen the restaurant bearing the name Bistrot La Favorisawhere between stews and recipes, they will give their best, share secrets, learn love and discover that it takes much more than talent and desire to keep the restaurant afloat. Because maybe the problems are not over, but they are just beginning…
Production data
With Joseph Cister Executive produced and developed from an original idea by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira, Paula Fernández and Curro Serrano, “La Favorita 1922” is a period series in which the values and feelings of the narrative axis intertwine such as struggle for dreams, love, intrigue, resilience and passion for cooking and in which the entire production design aims to ensure that viewers are transported to Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century, the time and place where the plot takes place.
To this end, the technical and artistic teams of the series – production, photo direction, documentation, hairdressing, makeup and especially artistic direction, decoration, scenography and costumes – have carried out very meticulous work to reproduce all the elements in high quality. detail. decor.
