Spain’s Antenna 3 snags BBCS gameshow Atresmedia Televisìon’s Antena 3 has ordered a local version of BBC Studios (BBCS) format, The 1% Club. The format, originally created by Magnum Media and recently commissioned for a second series in the UK, aims to test intelligence rather than what you learned at school or your ability to memorise […]
‘The Green Planet’ goes AR UK-based immersive entertainment studio Factory 42 has launched The Green Planet AR Experience, inspired by UK pubcaster the BBC’s Natural History Unit series. Made in collaboration with BBC Studios, and hosted by a virtual David Attenborough, who has been transformed into a lifelike 3D hologram, the free-to-attend experience is being […]
Mediaset Italy has picked up Spanish period drama La Catedral Del Mar, the show that was made available globally by Netflix having debuted on Spain’s Antena 3. The 8 x 60 minute show, also known as Cathedral Of The Sea, is based on the eponymous novel by Ildefonso Falcones and has been produced by Endemol […]
Endemol strips in Spain Endemol Shine International has sold social experiment format Stripped into Spain, which becomes the eighth market to commission a local version of the series. Shine Iberia, part of Endemol Shine Iberia, will produce four episodes of Stripped for Antena 3. Created in Denmark by Metronome, part of Endemol Shine Nordics, the […]
Spain’s drama production sector is moving swiftly towards international television’s top tier, fuelled by the SVOD global boom. Emiliano de Pablos reports. Not so long ago, Spain’s TV drama production sector was completely driven by free-to-air TV broadcasters Mediaset España, Atresmedia and state-owned TVE. However, weighty new players, led by telco giant Telefonica’s pay TV […]
TF1 has ordered a local version of The Red Band Society, the Spain-originated medical drama that has previously travelled to Fox in the US. The French commercial broadcaster will run a six-part version of the show, which follows events inside a cancer ward in a kids hospital. Vema Production will make the French version, with […]
Romania’s Intact Media Group saw its market share grow significantly last year, boosted by its growing thematic channel portfolio. Intact said that almost ten million Romanians watched its channels daily for at least one minute during 2016, with seven million tuning in during primetime. The group said that its market share for the whole day […]
Spain’s Atresmedia is launching two of its channels on cable in the UK for the first time. The Spanish-language services will target ex-pat Spaniards and Spanish speakers and sit within the Viva package on the Virgin Media cable service. Atresmedia runs the commercial free-to-air Antena 3 channel in Spain and its international equivalent Antena 3 […]
Our latest fortnightly feature in association with Parrot Analytics reveals the most in-demand shows from another European territory. Spain’s most popular digital original is Narcos. The Pablo Escobar-inspired drama was streaming service Netflix’s first big Spanish-language – or more accurately Spanish and English-language – play and its success in Spain is therefore unsurprising. Spanish viewers also love […]
Chinese on-demand video site Tencent has acquired seasons one and two of Viacom’s Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The deal was one of a batch distributor Viacom International Media Networks announced overnight, with Nicaragua’s Telenica taking a 1 400-hour package including new shows Harvey Beaks, 100 Things to do Before High School and Shimmer & Shine. […]
