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MIAMI: Cisneros Studios has begun production on Roxanna, a new variety show hosted by Mexican comedian and actress Roxanna Castellanos. Filmed on a sound stage in Miami, the show will combine celebrity interviews, contests, monologues and comic sketches, as well as musical performances. Castellanos has previously hosted the morning show …

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 …

NEW YORK: Telemundo and Time Inc. have teamed up to launch SOS: Save My House (SOS: Salva Mi Casa), a home-improvement show due out this Saturday. The program, which is Time Inc.’s first Spanish-language TV show and its first major collaboration with Telemundo, has already been picked up for a …

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; …

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 …

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 …

CANNES: Caracol TV Internacional’s drama Emeralds, The Color of Ambition tracks a series of bloody conflicts in a small town where the emerald trade is booming. Stuck in the middle of these struggles is a family that arrives at the town after escaping the violence of a city. “We are …

CANNES: The Globo highlight Precious Pearl, winner of the 2014 International Emmy Award for best telenovela, follows the love story between a working-class girl and a millionaire in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s. It also tells the story of Pearl, who was born out of their union and will …

MIAMI: Cisneros Media’s drama Criminal MasterMind (DeMente Criminal) is scheduled to debut tonight on Univision Puerto Rico. Based on a best-selling book, the series tells the story of how a distinguished psychiatrist was exposed by the law as a cold-blooded murderer. The series will premiere at 10 p.m. “We are …

NEW YORK: The NBA has inked a multiyear deal with Univision Deportes, the sports division of Univision Communications, to launch exclusive Spanish-language content across multiple platforms. As part of the agreement, Univision Deportes will debut new NBA programming via UniMás and Univision Deportes Network (UDN), a 24-hour Spanish language U.S. …