Daniel Arturo Écija Bernal (born 17 June 1963) is a media producer and screenwriter. Starting with ''

Médico de familia ''Médico de familia'' (Family Doctor) is a Spanish comedy drama television series produced by Globomedia for Telecinco. The series premiered at the end of 1995, to become the most popular Tuesday night show for four years and made Telecinco a pop ...

'', he is credited as creator and executive producer of a long list of Spanish television series. He served as chairman of Globomedia, of which he was a founding partner.

Biography

Born in 1963 in Wittenoon, Western Australia, son to a Spanish miner who immigrated to Australia, and who, having returned to Spain to work as driver, died from

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contamination acquired in the Australian mines. Écija started his career as television operator, later working as film editor, production assistant, director, writer and producer. He founded Globomedia together with Emilio Aragón and José María Irisarri in 1993. Their first fiction production was the widely successful sitcom ''

'', released in 1995 and in which Écija had his debut as director, whereas Aragón starred in as lead character in the series. Together with the series '' Farmacia de guardia'', ''Médico de Familia'' is credited with redefining the fiction landscape in Spain in the 1990s, bringing the boom of family dramedies. Écija and Globomedia then created a number of series including '' Periodistas'', '' SMS: Sin Miedo a Soñar'', ''

Un paso adelante ''Un paso adelante'' (''One Step Forward'') is a Spanish TV drama similar to the American 1980s TV series '' Fame''. It was originally broadcast on Spanish channel Antena 3 from 2002 to 2005. It has also been a huge success in Spanish-speaking c ...

'', ''

7 vidas ''7 Vidas'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 1999 to 2006. Its title translates as "7 lives" and the symbol of the sitcom is a cat, in reference to the belief that cats have 7 lives (in contrast to English-speaking countries, wh ...

'', ''

Los hombres de Paco ''Los hombres de Paco'' (English: ''Paco's Men'') is a Spanish television series that originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on Antena 3. A tenth season was aired from 10 May 2021 to 16 December 2021. Created by Daniel Écija and � ...

'', ''

El Internado ''El Internado'' (''The Boarding School''), also known as ''El Internado: Laguna Negra'' (''The Black Lagoon Boarding School'') is a Spanish Mystery fiction, mystery drama Thriller (genre), thriller television series produced by Globomedia for ...

'', ''El Barco'', ''

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'', and ''Vis a vis'' (''Locked Up''). After 25 years, Écija left Globomedia (absorbed by

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) in 2017, creating a new company (Good Mood), that nonetheless partnered with Globomedia. While working in Good Mood, he has created shows such as '' Estoy vivo'', ''

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'', and '' Cristo y Rey''.

References

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