SVT & Banijay unveil deaf dating format SVT1 in Sweden has partnered with Banijay Factory in the Nordics to create a new format that follows deaf singletons looking for love. Sexy Hands is destined for SVT1 and is being produced by Stockholm-based Delta Studios. It claims to be the first dating show in the world […]
Apple TV+ has ordered a Spanish- and English-language thriller from the producers and creative team behind Netflix hit Cable Girls. Now And Then is set in Miami with an all-Hispanic cast and explores the differences between youthful aspirations and the reality of adulthood, when the lives of a group of college friends are changed after a […]
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 […]
French commercial broadcaster Canal+ has taken a 50% stake in Kissman Production Group. Kissman is the prodco of Jamel Debbouze, whose comedy-entertainment series Jamel Comedy Club is a fixture on Canal+. Following the investment, financial terms of which were not disclosed, Canal+ and Kissman will work to develop new TV and digital projects in the […]
Egyptian channel CBC is today launching a remake of Spanish period drama Grand Hotel following a deal with German distributor Beta Films. The show will debut today in the Ramadan ‘super-primetime’ period – when fasting Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa region deliver networks massive ratings spikes. It will also launch on other […]
French production and distribution group Studiocanal has strengthened its TV assets by taking minority shares into three Europe-based indies, including Benedict Cumberbatch’s new indie. The group, which intends to raise its revenues from television from 13% of overall sales to 25% in the two or three years term, has taken 33% of Bambù Producciones in […]
The US arm of Mexican media giant Televisa is adapting hit Spanish drama Gran Hotel, with Stephen Kronish (24) attached as showrunner. Televisa USA is seeking to harness the production might and connections of its parent group in Latin America as part of a new initiative from Chris Philip, head of production and distribution. Its […]
Beta Film has sealed a raft of Asian sales including shopping a pair of drama series to China’s CCTV, TBI understands. The German-based distributor, which was meeting Asian buyers at the Busan Contents Market last week, has sold Spanish period drama Velvet (left) to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. The series, which has been called the ‘Spanish […]
A trio of Spanish primetime dramas are set to make international headlines. Spain’s TV advertising slump has hit local fiction budgets hard, but with US imports banished from the primetime schedules of the main broadcasters, local drama continues to connect strongly with audiences. In the cutthroat world of Spanish free TV primetime, three new series […]
German distributor Beta Film will launch buzzy Italian drama 1992 and Spanish drama hit Under Suspicion at MIPTV. Political thriller 1992 is an original for Sky in Italy and has been picked up by its pay TV counterparts in the UK and Germany. Beta will be shopping the Wildside-produced doc at the market. Bambú Producciones-produced […]
