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¿A qué estás esperando?

¿A qué estás esperando? (English: What Are You Waiting For?) is a Spanish erotic romantic comedy television series created by Natalia Durán for Antena 3 and Atresplayer, adapted from two novels by the bestselling author Megan Maxwell, Tampoco te pido tanto and the novel of the same name.¹^•² Its first season of eight 50-minute episodes premiered on Atresplayer Premium on 20 October 2024 and later reached the prime time of Antena 3.³^•¹

Key fact	Detail
Format	TV series, romantic and erotic comedy; 1 season of 8 episodes of 50 minutes³
Source	Adaptation of Megan Maxwell's novels Tampoco te pido tanto and ¿A qué estás esperando?²
Premiere	20 October 2024 on Atresplayer Premium; Antena 3 broadcast from 23 April 2026³^•¹
Main cast	Adriana Torrebejano (Sonia), Rubén Cortada (Can), Eva Ugarte (Carol), Francisco Ortiz (Daryl)²
Direction and writing	David Martín Porras and Salvador García Ruiz, directors; Natalia Durán and Marta Armengol, writers²
Production	Buendía Estudios Canarias with Diagonal (Banijay Iberia), DeAPlaneta and Atresmedia TV²
Renewal	Second season announced at the San Sebastián Festival; filming began in early March 2026⁴

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Premise

The series follows two couples who fall in love while fear of commitment keeps them from risking their independence.² Can, a wealthy airline pilot of Turkish descent, attends monthly dinners his traditional family organizes to present him with prospective wives; there he meets Sonia, an independent single mother. Both discover they share an uninhibited attitude toward relationships, enjoying sex without commitment while avoiding emotional involvement, including membership in the same swinger club.³^•⁵

In parallel, Daryl, Can's close friend and fellow pilot, is ready to give up bachelorhood after falling for Carol, a confident flight attendant, but the fears and differences each carries force both to question their feelings.⁶ Atresmedia described the show as exploring contradictions about love in the 21st century and its characters' search for sex-affective patterns that depart from patriarchal standards.²

Adaptation of the novels

The production fuses the plots of two novels from the same saga into a single series rather than adapting one book.⁷ The story of Can and Sonia, which gives the series its title, was the second of the two works to be published; the Carol and Daryl storyline comes from Tampoco te pido tanto, and the series shows the pilot's comic presentation to his fiancée's family, an episode that occurs in that novel.⁷

Megan Maxwell, a Spanish romance writer whose books have sold more than five million copies in 25 countries, participated in the adaptation process on her own terms: she asked to appear in an episode, which was done, and to be heard on points that her reader community, known as the "guerreras", expected to see preserved.²^•⁸ Screenwriter Natalia Durán, for whom this was a first adaptation after years of original scripts, said she did not work directly with Maxwell but that there was communication and mutual respect between novelist and series.⁹

Production and filming

Filming began in March 2024 in locations in the Canary Islands and later moved to Madrid.² Madrid locations recorded by the Madrid Film Office include the Ópera metro station, the Palacio de Santoña in Pozuelo de Alarcón, the Parque del Oeste, the Parque del Retiro, the Cuatro Torres Business Area, the Malasaña streets, and the municipalities of Torrelodones, Valdemoro and Alcobendas; Santa Cruz de Tenerife also appears among the shooting locations.³^•¹⁰

The production companies were Buendía Estudios Canarias, Diagonal (Banijay Iberia), DeAPlaneta and Atresmedia TV, with David Martín Porras and Salvador García Ruiz directing from scripts by Natalia Durán and Marta Armengol.²

Release and reception

The first season premiered on Atresplayer Premium on 20 October 2024.³ According to figures given by Antena 3, it became the most-viewed fiction on Atresplayer in 2024, a year in which the platform also premiered Ángela, Beguinas and Eva y Nicole.⁴^•¹¹ Atresmedia's annual report lists the series among the platform's 2024 titles, in a year when Atresplayer Premium closed with 677,000 subscribers, 14 percent more than the year before.¹²

The free-to-air premiere on Antena 3 followed on 23 April 2026, part of a wider pattern in which Spanish series run first on a paid platform and later on open television.¹^•¹³ Critical response was mixed: a review in El País found the series unable to coherently join its explicit erotic sequences with a syrupy romantic-comedy tone, while noting that its success was unsurprising given the audience loyal to Maxwell's books and to the channel's Turkish-style dramas.¹¹ A review in Cine con Ñ judged that the series survives on its sense of humor but does not overcome what the critic called an aspirational, hyper-normative fantasy.¹⁴

Second season

Atresmedia greenlit a second season after the first one's performance on Atresplayer, announcing it at the San Sebastián Festival; filming began in early March 2026 in locations in the Canary Islands and Madrid.⁴ The four lead actors return, joined by new cast members Nicolás Furtado, Marta Guerras and Helena Ezquerro.⁴ The new episodes extend the adaptation of Maxwell's saga: Can and Sonia enjoy life with Ibiza until a revealed secret causes an emotional earthquake, the arrival of Ibiza's father tests their relationship, and the marriage of Daryl and Carol, marked by the birth of Joel, shifts again with an unexpected move and the arrival of Daryl's father, Gabriel.⁴

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Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › Telenovelas and Latin American/Iberian serials › Spanish serial dramas

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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