La vida de Rita

Written and directed by Manuel Iborra, it stars Verónica Forqué, Juan Echanove and Pepón Nieto.

Rita (Verónica Forqué), Samuel (Juan Echanove) and Cucho (Pepón Nieto) own a bar where the rest of the characters hang out.

[4] The series premiered on 7 January 2003 in prime time,[8] earning good viewership figures (4,183,000 viewers and a 23.7% share).

[9] However, the interest of the viewers rapidly waned and TVE cancelled the series after the 5th episode,[10] aired on 4 February 2003.

[11] About two hundred of TVE Catalunya workers denounced the replacement of the series for a documentary about bioterrorism as an alleged part of government propaganda efforts in favour of the Iraq War, voicing their "rejection of the policy of intoxication and manipulation of information that RTVE is carrying out with regard to the Iraq conflict".