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Mediaset, Azteca join Globo drama copro

Mediaset España and Mexico’s TV Azteca are the latest channel groups to board the first Spanish-language drama from Brazilian broadcaster Globo. Supermax already counts Argentina’s pubcaster, TVP, and Oficina Burman as coproducers. The series is being produced for the international market. “We have two strategic goals with this project,” said Globo’s executive director of international […]

TVP joins Globo’s international original

Argentinian pubcaster TVP has come on board Supermax, the original drama Brazil’s TV Globo is making for the international market. Globo announced the series at NATPE, and it marks the Brazilian giant’s first wholly-original Spanish-language effort. Daniel Burman, the Argentine filmmaker behind the Spanish version, has written the series, which Globo will sell internationally. TVP […]

Globo plans Dangerous Liaisons in Cannes

Brazilian media giant Globo will launch its 4K drama Dangerous Liaisons in Cannes. The adaptation of the classic historical novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos will go out as a miniseries on Globo in Brazil. The Globo series, Ligações Perigosas, relocated the action from pre-Revolution Paris to a fictional Brazilian city in the 1920s and […]

Fox stocks up on Turkish drama for MIP

The distribution arm of Fox’s international channels division will have a raft of Turkish drama to sell at MIPTV. Fox, which represents content from the Nat Geo and international Fox channels, has new episodes of popular Turkish drama That is My Life (O Hayat Benim locally). The sales division is part of the recently expanded […]

Ronaldo to score for Globo at MIPTV

Globo is bring Brazilian superstar footballer Ronaldo to MIPTV. The Brazilian media giant is bringing the star, whose full name is Ronaldo Nazário, to Cannes to talk about its coverage of the upcoming Summer Olympics and Paralympics, which are being held in Rio. Ronaldo, widely considered one of the best strikers ever and three-time FIFA World Player […]

NATPE: Globo makes int’l drama move

Globo is making its first-ever drama specifically for the international market, a Spanish-language show based on Brazilian scripted series Supermax. The Brazilian media giant has coproduced Spanish-language novellas before with Mexico’s TV Azteca and US Hispanic net Telemundo, but the move to make an original Spanish drama series on its own is a first for […]

‘Evolution’ for Globo with new VOD service

Brazilian broadcaster Globo is to launch a full-service on-demand player on November 3. Globo Play is being billed as an “evolution” of the existing Globo TV+ platform. The new service will allow users to watch live programming from Globo’s linear channels, library content of around 80 programmes and digital shorts across connected devices, some of […]

Undercover Boss breaks cover in Brazil

Brazilian broadcaster Globo has ordered its own version of All3Media International format Undercover Boss. This marks the first time the British-conceived format has launched in Latin America as an original. Globo will run the show as Chefe Secreto, running as an 8x15mins segment in weekly Sunday night primetime show Fantástico from this week (September 13). […]

News brief: EPG buys another Brazilian 4K drama

South Korea’s EPG Media has acquired another 4K drama from Brazil’s Globo. EPG has bought Merciless, a scripted series about a serial killer who finds the perfect alibi in an unstable single mother. The deal comes after EPG acquired another Globo property, film Time and the Wind in June. Before that, the pay TV channel […]

News brief: Globo debuts Oz net, sells to China

Brazil’s Globo has secured a deal with Australian TV provider Luso Vision to bring its international channel to Australia and New Zealand. The Portuguese-lanaguge network will be available to local Globo subscribers. Furthermore, Globo has licensed telenovela Side By Side to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.