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ECCHO RIGHTS LAUNCHES THREE HIT TURKISH DRAMAS AT MIPCOM Lisa Wegscheider, Sales Executive at Eccho Rights for LatAm and Spain
Lisa Wegscheider, Sales Executive at Eccho Rights for Latin America and Spain, spoke to ttv about the new slate of Turkish dramas the company is presenting at Mipcom Online+. By Gonzalo Larrea
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n addition to its vast catalog of Turkish dramas, Korean content and European series, Eccho Rights is ready to attend a new, unique edition of Mipcom with a strong lineup of new titles from Turkey. The three new Turkish dramas the company will be presenting in October are currently leading the ratings’ race in Turkey, making them a guarantee for success for international screens. The first title is the drama ‘The Red Room’, produced by OMG Pictures for TV8 in Turkey. The series premiered on Friday, September 4 as a ratings’ leader in the AB and ABC segments, with a 19% share. The following week it led the ratings overall on all demos.
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“It is a series that we have high expectations for, because it has been a brutal success in ratings. In addition, we believe that it is a special series, because it talks about the wounds that we all have, about things that have happened to us in the past and how they influence our present and future and sometimes we are not even aware,” said Lisa Wegscheider, Sales Executive at Eccho Rights for Latin America and Spain and part of the team led by Barbora Suster.
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‘The Red Room’ is based on the real experiences of the famous psychiatrist and writer Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu and focuses on the stories of her patients and the dramas experienced by her team of therapists in real life. It stars Binnur Kaya, Tülin Özen, Burak Sevinç, Meriç Aral, and Halit Özgür Sarı, while being directed by Cem Karcı.
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According to Wegscheider, the series takes place in a psychologist office shared by five therapists. “And the story combines a plot throughout the season, which are the conflicts within the office. And then there are cases that begin and end, which are not resolved in a single episode, but rather in several,” she explained. The second big new title is ‘My home, My Destiny’, another OGM Pictures production for TV8, on the air since last December 25th. The Red Room Drama
