Brigada Costa del Sol (or Drug Squad: Costa del Sol in English^[1]) is a Spanish drama television series produced by Mediaset España and Warner Bros. International Television Production España with the participation of Netflix. Starring Hugo Silva, Álvaro Cervantes, Miki Esparbé, Jesús Castro, and Sara Sálamo, it was presented to the media on April 3, 2019, and its premiere took place on May 6, 2019, on Spanish networks Telecinco and Cuatro.^[2]

On May 28, 2018, Mediaset Spain and Netflix announced they had reached an agreement to produce their first series together, with Warner Bros. ITVP Spain as co-producer. The names of the main cast of the series were also confirmed, including Hugo Silva, Álvaro Cervantes, Miki Esparbé, Jesús Castro, and Sara Sálamo.^[3] Recording began on June 7 in Málaga Province and concluded in early February 2019.^[4] Brigada Costa del Sol was one of the only Spanish series to be selected for the MIPDrama MIPTV 2019 event.^[5]

The first season became available worldwide in its entirety on Netflix on October 25, 2019.^[6]

In 1977, a group of police detectives with limited resources, but a lot of ingenuity and courage, is picked to form a special drug-fighting brigade in Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol. The series is based on the true story of the Grupo Especial de Estupefacientes Costa del Sol, one of Spain's first anti-narcotics squads.^[6]

• Hugo Silva – Bruno López
• Álvaro Cervantes – Leo Villa
• Miki Esparbé – Martín Pulido
• Jesús Castro – Terrón
• Sara Sálamo – Yolanda "Owlet"

The series premiere took place simultaneously on the two main channels of the Mediaset España group on May 6, 2019. For the premiere, a special broadcast filling all of prime time combined the first and the second chapter as if they were a film of about 135 minutes, which was seen by 1,706,000 viewers (12.7% share) on Telecinco and 763,000 (5.7%) on Cuatro. The remaining 11 episodes that make up the first season aired in their usual format on Telecinco.