‘Territorio gravedad’, the Spanish docu-series about the cosmos, returns with its second season

In February 2023, Territorio Gravedad premiered its first season on RTVE Play. Now, this docu-series, produced by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in collaboration with Lipssync Medialab, returns to screens with new educational content exploring the sciences that study the cosmos. Starting Friday, 29 November, the Filmin and Vimeo On Demand platforms will host the four episodes of the second season, along with the eight episodes already available from the first.

"The release of the second and final season on streaming platforms is a major milestone for us: it signifies the full realisation of a project we’ve worked tirelessly on for eight years," explains Carlos Barceló, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) and scientific director of the series.

Territorio Gravedad premiere poster on Filmin and Vimeo On Demand platforms.

Territorio Gravedad invites viewers to explore the cosmos through a fascinating narrative thread: gravity, the invisible natural sculptor that shapes the universe, from its origin to its intricate current structure. The series blends more than 60 interviews with internationally renowned scientists with a fictional storyline, creating a journey that begins with the general theory of relativity and spans all scales of the cosmos: from GPS technology in our mobile phones to the behaviour of stars, black holes, and galaxies.

The second season begins in 2015 with the detection of strange, minute waves that, as Einstein predicted in 1915, distort the fabric of space-time: gravitational waves. The first two episodes focus on this scientific milestone and its main protagonists: Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and Barry Barish, interviewed by the Territorio Gravedad team alongside key figures from the international collaboration in Spain, Alicia Sintes and Sascha Husa.

The other two episodes delve into the quest for physics’ “Holy Grail”—the unification of macro-scale general relativity with micro-scale quantum mechanics, creating a compatible framework for both. This exploration opens doors to the future and raises profound questions, such as the differences between reality and our consciousness of it.

The official presentation of the new season took place on 19 November at a public event held at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid. During the event, attendees enjoyed a screening of the season’s first episode and participated in a discussion with its creators: Carlos Barceló, scientific director of the series and researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), and Nacho Chueca, artistic director and producer from Lipssync Medialab. Pura Fernández, deputy vice president for Scientific Culture and Citizen Science at CSIC, was also present.

The Territorio Gravedad team during the premiere of the second season of the docu-series at the CSIC headquarters, Madrid, on November 19, 2024.

THE BROADEST AUDIOVISUAL PANORAMA OF THE COSMOS IN SPANISH

With this new release, Territorio Gravedad cements itself as a 12-episode series offering a panoramic exploration of the sciences dedicated to studying the cosmos, with gravity as the central theme.

Starring Elisa Marinas, José Manuel Valdés, Javier Lomas, and Teresa del Olmo, Territorio gravedad is an audiovisual science outreach production promoted by the Spanish Society of Gravitation and Relativity and co-produced by the IAA-CSIC and Lipssync Medialab.

"We are witnessing the most comprehensive panorama of the cosmos ever created in the Spanish language. An intimate, exhaustive, and unique portrait of gravity—that mysterious force that ultimately governs the behaviour of the universe," states Carlos Barceló (IAA-CSIC).

The series is supported and funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), attached to the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, and the business group E2 IN2, alongside more than 15 national and international scientific institutions.