ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) has struck a first-look deal with South Korea’s Something Special, the Seoul-based format production studio launched by former CJ ENM exec Jin Woo Hwang. VIS will have exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to 10 of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats, across genres including music […]
ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) has restructured its operations in the Americas, with a series of appointments and the re-hiring of Fernando Gaston. Gaston, who was most recently VP of development & production for Telemundo Global Studios, becomes VP of content and will oversee strategy, development and production of all VIS productions in the region. He […]
ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) in Latin America has revealed three new projects to have emerged from its previously announced policy to spend 25% of its budget on creating and developing Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) content. The initiative, revealed as part of the company’s No Diversity, No Commission global policy in October, is designed […]
ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS), a division of ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI), is launching a new kids content division and has appointed Nickelodeon exec Nina Hahn to head it up. The new division, VIS Kids, will allow for the expansion of the studio’s global kids content pipeline, broadening its kids content offering to include short and […]
ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) has restructured its distribution business, with its activities combined with those of ViacomCBS’s International Programme Sales (IPS) arm. The revamp will see IPS, which had focused on finished tape and format sales for network-branded content outside Latin America, combined with VIS’s sales division, which previously focused on VIS original content revenues […]
ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) and Spanish prodco La Claqueta PC are to co-produce Jamila, a new scripted crime drama series. Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo, producer of TV series Nacho Vidal, An XXXL industry and Alberto Marini, EP of the [REC] horror movie franchise, are attached as showrunners, while José Rodríguez Suárez, writer of Adiós (Goodbye), will co-create the series with them and serve as […]
Global Agency takes ‘Aleph’ to market Global Agency has acquired international distribution rights to the Turkish crime drama Aleph. Produced by May Productions with co-financing by FX Turkey and BluTV, the eight-part series follows two detectives as they pursue a serial killer in Istanbul, uncovering a sinister cult and mysterious symbols along the way. Izzet […]
Armoza’s La Famiglia travels to Greece, Russia Russia’s CTC and Greek broadcaster Antenna 1 have picked up remake rights to Israelie scripted comedy La Famiglia. The show, sold by ITV Studios-owned Armoza Formats, has aired three seasons on Channel 10 and Reshet 13 in Israel, while a second season of the Cypriot adaptation recently aired […]
