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CANNES: Telefe has secured new deals for its programming, including The Return of Lucas, in Asia and the Middle East.

MIAMI/LOS ANGELES: Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) has appointed Lourdes Diaz as president of entertainment and Adrian Santucho as executive VP of Univision Studios.

MIAMI: Telemundo has landed a deal with Netflix that will see titles such as El Chema, Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso and Guerra de Ídolos premiere exclusively on the streaming service in Latin America, Spain and the U.S.

CANNES: NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has set up Telemundo International Studios (TIS), a new internationally focused production unit dedicated to creating high-end, short-form, scripted formats.

CANNES: The friendship between two married couples turns out to be the prelude to a forbidden romance in the Telefe telenovela Love After Love.

CANNES: Capitalizing on the food craze, the game-show format Cooking at the Supermarket is set inside a grocery store.

BUENOS AIRES: The Return of Lucas, a co-production between Telefe and América TV, is headed to new broadcasters across Latin America, including Unitel in Bolivia.

MIAMI: Endemol Shine Brazil has been granted the rights to produce formats from BBC Worldwide's catalog in Brazil.

MIAMI: The Dominican Republic’s hit variety show Bien de Bien has been added to the lineup of U.S. channel Televisión Dominicana.

NEW YORK: Of all the new programs that were launched in Latin America last month, SuperMax on Brazil's TV Globo generated the most buzz on social media, according to The WIT.