Telecinco Signs Up for RHI Fare

NEW YORK: RHI Entertainment has inked a new distribution agreement with Spanish broadcaster Telecinco, covering more than 100 hours of mini-series and TV movies.

The RHI content will air on Telecinco’s flagship terrestrial service as well as on two digital channels. The deal includes the four-hour mini-series Alice (Caterina Scorsone, Kathy Bates, Tim Curry), Everything She Ever Wanted (Gina Gershon, Rachel Blanchard, Victor Garber) and Seven Deadly Sins (Kirsten Prout, Eric Close), and two-hour TV movies such as Too Late to Say Goodbye (Rob Lowe, Lauren Holly), Cinderella Pact (Poppy Montgomery, Chelah Horsdal, Adam Kaufman), Double Wedding (Tamera and Tia Mowry) and Sorority Wars (Courtney Thorne-Smith, Lucy Hale, Faith Ford).

“RHI has long been recognized as a supplier of quality programming with unsurpassed global appeal,” said John Alexander, the senior VP of international sales and worldwide DVD distribution at RHI. “This agreement with Telecinco underscores our proven ability to reach audiences in every part of the world. We are happy to be in business with one of Europe’s leading broadcasters and will do everything we can to help them realize their strategic goals.”

Manuel Villanueva, Telecinco’s general manager of content, added: "The RHI films that are soon to be part of both Telecinco’s grid and its two digital channels—Factoría de Ficción and LaSiete—will reinforce our entertainment offering with TV movies and mini-series featuring high-quality production, original plotlines and strong performances."