World Screen

MIAMI: Estudios TeleMéxico is set to produce prime-time series and novelas for Telemundo in the U.S. following a multiyear agreement between the companies. Through the deal, Estudios TeleMéxico will produce the series in Mexico or Colombia in collaboration with Telemundo Studios. Telemundo Internacional will distribute the series worldwide. “We are …

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 …

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 …

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 …

BOGOTÁ: Caracol TV Internacional has for the first time added movies to its distribution catalogue, among them the mystery film Before the Fire. Other titles being added to the company’s portfolio are The Principal, about a Spanish dancer who moves to Colombia in order to change her luck, and the …

MIAMI: Univision Network has slated a May 3 premiere date for its new singing competition series Here I Stand (Me Pongo de Pie), featuring musical parent-child duos. The show will air Sunday nights for ten weeks. Through each episode, participants will face off singing traditional songs, along with modern hits. …

BUENOS AIRES: The Telefe series The Man of Your Dreams has launched in Finland. The title premiered on the FVOD platform Yle Areena, a service of Finnish public media company Yle. The series is the first Latin scripted program on the digital hub’s catalogue. Oscar winner Juan Jose Campanella wrote …

NEW YORK: Azteca America is entering the 2015-16 season with a programming slate featuring soccer coverage, telenovelas and a Turkish-drama pickup. A network addition is The Winning Hour (La Hora Ganadora), a one-hour block of interactive programming geared toward the entire family. Shows debuting through this block are the dance competition …

MIAMI: As part of its Upfront presentation, Discovery U.S. Hispanic has announced it’s expanding its adventure and automotive genres for Discovery en Español, while adding titles centered on beauty, home and cooking on the female-focused Discovery Familia. Discovery en Español is set to premiere the car series Cuban Chrome (Motores: …

ISTANBUL: ITV-Inter Medya has sold several Turkish titles into Latin America, including a multi-country pickup for Black Rose. That series is being broadcast on Chile’s Canal 13, on MundoFox for the U.S. Hispanic Market, and Albavision’s channels in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. It …