Seamstress-turned-designer Ana Rivera (Paula Echevarría) has a since-childhood on-again-off-again upstairs-downstairs romance with heir Alberto Márquez (Miguel Ángel Silvestre) in Velvet. You can watch all three seasons of Gran Hotel on Netflix, where you can also find El hotel de los secretos ("The Hotel of Secrets"), a Mexican adaptation. There's also baby-snatching, affairs galore and, yeah, lots of murders. In particular, it focuses on star-crossed lovers Julio ( Yon Gonzalez, Cable Girls), who is a waiter, and Alicia ( Amaia Salamanca, Velvet), an Alarcón, who marries the villainous hotel manager Diego.
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It follows the upstairs - the aristocratic Alarcón family with at least three killers among them - and the downstairs - the hotel staff that includes a serial killer, a thief, an aspiring social climber … and a secret Alarcón child - and how they mix. But with less #richpeopleproblems, more murder." The show is set in a lavish hotel on the Spanish coast in the early 1900s. When I first wrote about it, I said, "Think Downton Abbey on steroids in Spain. This show is one of the most addicting things I have ever watched, which probably explains why I've written about it several times - and why Eva Longoria is producing an American version for ABC in the 2018-19 season. Star-crossed lovers Alicia (Amaia Salamanca), an heiress, and Julio (Yon González), a waiter, are the central characters in Gran Hotel. I need more of these dreamy doctors, STAT. For some strange reason, the show has not yet been greenlit for a second season in Spain, but here's hoping. Watch with bated breath for what happens in the wild romances, military scandals and, well, yeah, that whole war going on out there. Joining them is a cast of beautiful soldiers and army doctors I would not hesitate to call Señor Dreamy and Señor Steamy, among other things, and Velvet's José Sacristán as the head of military medicine. Among the other nurses are Pilar ( Verónica Sánchez), a young widow who runs into the love of her life who left her at the altar years before ( Cristóbal Suárez) Magdalena ( Anna Moliner), who renounces her family after falling in love with a Muslim man ( Daniel Lundh) who works at the hospital and the duchess Carmen ( Alicia Borrachero), who is seen coughing up blood while stubbornly running the hospital despite military attempts to override her. Yet she just might get distracted by a dashing doctor ( Álex García). At its heart is Julia Ballester ( Amaia Salamanca, Gran Hotel and Velvet), who is not trained but goes along anyway hoping to find her brother ( Marcel Borràs) and fiance ( Álex Gadea), both soldiers whose unit has been lost in a conflict. Particularly it follows a group of upper class women, led by a duchess, who train as Red Cross nurses as the Spanish army fights Berber tribes in colonial Morocco. Netflix is the international distributor for this new drama - from the makers of Gran Hotel and Velvet - which is set, well, in Morocco during the Rif War in the 1920s. (Antena 3) Morocco: Love in Times of War (Tiempos de guerra) Fidel Calderón and Amaia Salamanca as Julia Ballester in Morocco: Love in Times of War, a.k.a.