FOX to Produce Lalola Pilot

BUENOS AIRES, June 27: FOX
is set to produce a pilot based on Dori Media Group’s hit international
telenovela Lalola.

Sony Pictures Television
previously picked up the rights for the format in the U.S., and Kevin Falls, a
producer of the Emmy Award-winning series The West Wing, will be involved in the production of the Lalola
pilot on the company’s behalf.
Falls will be responsible for writing the series, also serving as executive
producer. It is still unclear if the American series will be called Lalola or will be retitled.

The hit telenovela,
originally broadcast in Argentina, has been sold into more than 52 countries in
less than a year, including France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Chile and
Vietnam.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski