Daily Times

A US version of Spain’s ‘Gran Hotel’ is in the works at ABC. The network is developing ‘Grand Hotel’, a soapy drama, from actress and producer Eva Longoria and writer Bruan Tanen, reports Deadline.

The show will be based on the very successful and popular Spanish series and set around a family that owns a Miami Beach hotel, the staff who run it, and the secrets that unfold around their superficially perfect appearance.

The original series was set in the early 1900s in Spain and has been dubbed “a Spanish ‘Downtown Abbey’.”

The original version was created and produced by Bambu Producciones and was on for three seasons on Spain’s ‘Antena 3’.

Eva Longoria, Bruan Tanen, and producer Ben Spector are executive producing along with Olivier Bachert and Christian Gockel.

In 2016, Televisa released ‘El Hotel de los Secretos’, their adaption of the series. The plot was set in Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century.

Watch the trailer for the series that started it all.

We can’t wait for this to premiere!

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman. After a series of guest roles on several television series, Longoria was first recognised for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera ‘The Young & The Restless’, on which she starred from 2001 to 2003.

Published in Daily Times, November 27^th 2017.