''Acusados'' is a Spanish drama television series created by Ida y Vuelta starring

Blanca Portillo Blanca Portillo Martínez de Velasco (born 15 June 1963) is a Spanish actress. Career Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. One of he ...

and

José Coronado José María Coronado García (born 14 August 1957) is a Spanish film and television actor and former model. His performances playing (often corrupt and/or morally dubious) law enforcement officer roles have brought him some of the greatest succ ...

, among others. It aired from 2009 to 2010 on

Telecinco Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially laun ...

Premise

Rosa Ballester (

) is a judge who prosecutes the businessman Joaquín de la Torre (

) for believing him responsible for a fire in a club. To that end, Ballester requires the services of Jorge Vega (

Daniel Grao Daniel Grao Valle (born 17 February 1976) is a Spanish actor. He is known for his performances in television series such as '' Luna, el misterio de Calenda'' or ''Sin identidad'', or his lead role in the biopic miniseries about Mario Conde. Bi ...

), who moves from

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Herit ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

in order to help with the investigation, unbeknownst the main reason behind the requirement of Ballester is that the latter wants to approach Vega's girlfriend Laura Nieto (

Silvia Abascal Silvia Abascal Estrada (born 20 March 1979) is a Spanish film, television and stage actress. She landed a breakthrough role in 1995 sitcom '' Pepa y Pepe'' which advanced her career. She has since featured in films such as ''The Yellow Fountain' ...

), supposedly a key piece in the case.

Cast

;Introduced in season 2

Production and release

Filming started by September 2008 in

, later moving to

. The series premiered on 28 January 2009. The last episode of the first season aired on 22 April 2009. The second season premiered on 13 January 2010. The broadcasting run of the 26-episode series ended on 22 April 2010, with average figures of 2,128,000 viewers and a 13.4% audience share. ''Acusados'' was reportedly so eerily similar to the American series ''Damages'' that Sony Pictures considered to file a plagiarism reclamation.

References

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