The Mallorca Files is a British police procedural television drama series set on the Spanish island of Mallorca, starring Elen Rhys and Julian Looman [de; nl] as a pair of detectives. The series, broadcast on BBC One, was created by Dan Sefton and is a co-production between Cosmopolitan Pictures, Clerkenwell Films, BritBox US and Canada, ZDFneo and France 2
The series was broadcast on BBC One on weekday afternoons. A second series was commissioned 11 November 2019, before the first episode was broadcast, for transmission in 2020, but this was delayed due to a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.
The first series was broadcast in France on the France 2 channel in June 2020.
Total opposites Miranda Blake, a Detective Constable with London’s Metropolitan Police, and Max Winter, a German detective, are teamed up by Ines Villegas, the Chief of Palma Police, to solve crimes, generally, ones committed against the international community, on the island of Mallorca.
The cast features Elen Rhys as Detective Miranda Blake, Julian Looman [de; nl] as Detective Max Winter, Maria Fernandez Ache as Ines Villegas, Chief of the Palma police, Tábata Cerezo as Carmen Lorenzo, Max’s girlfriend, Nacho Aldeguer as Federico Ramis, a forensic pathologist with Palma Police, Alex Hafner as Roberto Herrero, Carlos Olalla as Joan Lorenzo, Carmen’s father and bar owner, Tanya Moodie as Superintendent Abbey Palmer, Blake’s boss in London
Cosmopolitan Pictures founder Ben Donald said the series came from “[a] desire to create a feel-good action-driven cop show like the ones I grew up with and, secondly, a desire to rebrand and refresh the Anglo-German relationship on television.”
Filming for the first series started in November 2018.
A second series has been commissioned for BBC One, with the lead actors reprising their roles. British actors Phil Daniels and Josette Simon have been booked for guest star roles.