SÃO PAULO: Brazil’s Globo has renewed its partnership with Ecuadorian broadcaster Ecuavisa. The companies have worked together for more than 15 years. Past Globo productions to have aired on the network include Brazil Avenue, The Life We Lead, Trail of Lies, Cat’s Cradle, The Enchanted Tale, Irrational Heart and Pages ...

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MIAMI: Cisneros Media has hired Wilma Maciel as VP of content management and acquisitions for Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD), effective immediately. In her newly created role, Maciel will work out of Miami under Marcello Coltro, the executive VP of content distribution at Cisneros Media. She will assist Coltro with the ...

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CANNES: Stand Up for Your Country, Televisa Internacional’s latest format, is an entertainment series in which duos made up of parents and kids perform in front of a studio audience with one goal in mind: get the audience to deliver a standing ovation so they can move to the next ...

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CANNES: The newly launched Grand Prix Media is working to position itself as the leading independent distributor of Brazilian content to the international market, and is using MIPTV as an opportunity to do so. “As such, we are proud to be representing a selection of the best content available in ...

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SÃO PAULO: Bolivian network ATB has launched a prime-time slot dedicated solely to telenovelas from Brazil’s Globo following a long-term agreement between the two companies. The first title to premiere in the dedicated space was Brave Woman, which debuted March 30. The novela tells the story of Morena (Nanda Costa), a ...

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MIAMI: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) The Americas has made three new appointments to it senior management team. Juan “JC” Acosta has been tapped for the role of chief operating officer, based in Miami; Federico Cuervo was named senior VP of entertainment brands, working from Buenos Aires; and Tiago Worcman ...

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CANNES: Cisneros Media Distribution's many market offerings include the tele-series Criminal MasterMind, as well as the teen series Candela and the new telenovela Secret Love. Cisneros Media is also presenting a factual catalogue containing titles such as XRC, which is made up of action-filled news footage, and the travel/beauty series ...

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LOS ANGELES/MIAMI: Daniel Rodriguez and Mauricio Piccone have been appointed co-executive VPs of the newly launched Endemol Shine Latino. Rodriguez was formerly Shine Group’s VP of sales for Latin America. He will now oversee all sales initiatives for Endemol Shine Latino. Piccone, who most recently served as senior VP of ...

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BOGOTÁ: Fugitives, a Colombian series produced by Caracol Television and distributed by Caracol TV Internacional, has launched on U.S. network UniMás. The 40×1-hour drama follows the prison escape of Julian, a civil engineer accused of a crime he didn’t commit, and Esperanza, a woman sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

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MIAMI: Next week, Telemundo Internacional is presenting to MIPTV buyers a Super Series time slot with more than 300 hours of short formats. Among its series offerings are Acero, Woman of Steel (Señora Acero); The Lord of the Skies (El Señor de los Cielos), winner of an International Emmy Award; ...

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