BBC acquires international series Senorita 89 and KaDeWe – Our Time is Now

BBC acquires international series Senorita 89 and KaDeWe – Our Time is Now

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Thursday, 21st July 2022
Senorita 89 (Credit: BBC)
Senorita 89 (Credit: BBC)

Thriller Senorita 89 and intricate drama KaDeWe – Our Time is Now have been acquired by the BBC from Fremantle. 

Senorita 89 comes from showrunner Lucia Puenzo and explores the dangerous underworld of Latin America’s beauty pageant culture in the 1980s. 

Behind the smiles, beauty and bright lights, there is a dark and disturbing world of manipulation and abuse. 

The eight-part series follows promising beauty queens from all over Mexico who are taken to an ominous ranch in the middle of the forest, where they must stay for three months to be in with a chance to be crowned the next Miss Mexico. 

The girls are put through intensive training sessions, strict diets and secret surgeries in order to make them pageant worthy.

However, when one girl turns up dead, the police arrive to investigate and shine a light on the toxic environment the girls are immersed in. 

KaDeWe – Our Time is Now, is based on Berlin’s iconic and luxury Kaufhaus des Westens, which translates to department store of the West. 

The six-part series follows four liberal and ambitious young friends, Heidi, Fritzi, Harry and Georg, who are searching for meaning in the 1920s. 

They are faced with a world going through reinvention, cut-throat survival and new opportunities for women. 

The arrival of the Nazis and their ascent to power threatens the existence of the Jewish owned store and the group’s friendship and dreams for the future.

Senorita 89 and KaDeWe – Our time is Now will air later this year.

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Thriller Senorita 89 and intricate drama KaDeWe – Our Time is Now have been acquired by the BBC from Fremantle.