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The rallying cries of the Italian anti-fascist song “Bella ciao” from The Professor’s (Álvaro Morte) gang of endearing city-named criminals will soon no longer be heard from the halls of the Bank of Spain. Álex Pina’s “Money Heist,” also known as “La Casa de Papel,” one of Netflix’s most-streamed Spanish-language shows, will reach its conclusion in two parts by the end of this year.

But while the series will come to an end, “it isn’t the end of the robbery at the Bank of Spain,” executive producer and director Jesús Colmenar said during the Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show on Aug. 19.

Colmenar, who was joined by Morte and Úrsula Corberó, discussed the “biggest and most thrilling” season, with Colmenar noting, “We have put the final stops in there.”

One important stop came in the fourth season, when fan-favorite character Nairobi (Alba Flores) was killed off.

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Netflix has unveiled that actors Miguel Ángel Silvestre (“Sky Rojo”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”) and José Manuel Seda (“23-F: la película”) will appear in the fifth and final season of its hit Spanish series “Money Heist,” (“La Casa de Papel”) launching globally on Sept. 3.

It’s been a long time coming, but in Season 1, Episode 1, Berlin (Pedro Alonso) told Rio (Miguel Herrán) what it’s like to have child, using a colorful metaphor which compared his own son’s birth to “a nuclear warhead that’s going to destroy everything.” Now, the world will meet the atomic weapon of Berlin’s affection, his son Rafael (Criado).

Another ghost from a main character’s past appearing in Part 5 is René (Silvestre), the former love of Tokio’s life who was first referenced at the very beginning of the series when Tokio the narrator introduced herself to the audience saying,...