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Latin America in Review _/22

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18-25 May, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles.

Interviews At the Forefront of the TV Industry _/16 Carlos Pérez Dávila, President, Caracol Televisión

Executives Izzet Pinto _/28 CEO, Global Agency

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Roberto Romagnoli _/29 VP of Production, TV Azteca

Delmar Andrade _/30

International Sales Director, Record TV Network

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Sales Manager for Eastern and Central Europe, Telemundo Internacional

Juan Fernández _/33 VP, World Media Pictures

Gareth Williams _/36

SVP of Content and Production for Latin America, BBC Worldwide

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LATIN AMERICA

Mexican Groups Lead Media Outlets Grupo Televisa, TV Azteca and González-González lead Latin American media according to a study conducted by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). These three Mexican groups are the top three corporations leading media outlets in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report -called “Media concentration and Work Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean”was presented by researchers from the University of Buenos Aires Mariana Baranchuk and Diego de Charra at the international “Media and Democracy” conference held in (Chile) last May. The report lists the companies that are under control of major Latin American corporations, as well as their different business units and areas where they operate. It shows that Televisa currently owns an editorial house by the same name, delivering 156 titles for Mexico, Latin America and the US. The Mexican giant also owns a 58% stake in Sky -held in partnership with TV Azteca- and controls Televisa Networks, which has 26 channels in Mexico and some international channels that broadcast its telenovelas, kids’ programming, music shows and sports events beyond Mexican borders. The IFJ report also found that TV Azteca stands out for its content production, which includes telenovelas, news and entertainment shows. TV Azteca also owns Mexican broadcast TV channels 7, 13, 40 on UHF, a broadcast network with 181 stations, and is present in the US, Uruguay, Nicaragua and Guatemala. As for González-González, the report finds that this company has business operations in Mexico, Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Uruguay, among many others. According to the IFJ’s estimates the group owns at least 31 broadcast TV channels and a network of 40 radio stations and their re-broadcasting stations. Yet the group’s growth is primarily due to large sales of its taped fiction products. Other media groups that stand out in the Latin American and Caribbean landscape are Venezuela’s Grupo Cisneros, Brazilian group Globo, Grupo Clarín in Argentina and Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios, also in Brazil. The report also mentions two Spanish companies currently operating in the region: Telefónica, which is also venturing into satellite and cable TV; and Prisa, which already owns editorial houses and both satellite and cable TV companies.

APPOINTMENT

Kevin Cuddihy Is Univision Television Group’s New President Univision Communications (UTG) announced that Kevin Cuddihy will take over as the company’s new president. Cuddihy, who was previously executive VP of advertising Sales, will continue to be based in New York and report to Peter Walker, president of Univision Local Media. In his new role, Cuddihy will oversee all UTG operations -both advertising sales and local programming- and will work to ensure close collaboration between UTG and the company’s other local media assets. Prior to joining UTG in 2009, Cuddihy spent eight years in local television sales at Comcast Spotlight where he rose from vice president and general manager of Detroit Marketlink to senior vice president of advertising sales. Before Comcast, Cuddihy served as director of sales and later vice president and general manager for WWJ Detroit, and briefly held the vice president and general manager position for WDNY Indianapolis. Cuddihy also spent close to two decades with the CBS Station Group, where he first held the account executive position at WCCO Minneapolis and was then promoted to national sales manager, local sales manager and general sales manager. “Kevin’s three decades of local television sales experience, deep industry relationships and intimate knowledge of Univision’s markets, audience and content make him the ideal executive to take on this important role.” Walker said about the appointment.

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A New Audiovisual Production Hub Is Born Spain’s largest audiovisual production hub -TV City- will open its doors by late 2012. Grupo Secuoya will build an over 200-thousand-square-feet production hub in Tres Cantos (Madrid) through its affiliate B&S. The project will require an investment of 14 million euros and engage 500 workers. B&S will manage the TV City project contributing with human resources and technicians to work on TV production. The hub will offer services to independent production houses, turnkey services for TV shows and series and a technology rental service.

Grupo Secuoya’s “partner production companies” may have access to the B&S capital in three years, provided they concentrate their entire production activity at the TV City. Yet the largest percentage of the stake will remain in control of its current owners. B&S will provide these so-called partner production houses with certain strategic advantages (taking part in a profitable business without any risk that complements production companies’ business lines), operative advantages (reducing risk of price changes in studio and technology rental services, bringing together different ongoing productions, producing pilots without having to pay for studio rentals and facilitating adaptation of new structures and production formats) and technical advantages (ensuring production capacity in the premises with high-quality resources, state-of-the-art technology and new formats such as HD or 3D).

APPOINTMENT A+E Networks Has a New SVP of International Programming and Marketing Christian Murphy was appointed as SVP of international programming and marketing for A+E Networks and will now report to A+E Networks international SVP Sean Cohan.

“Christian is truly passionate about television and, since joining AETN, has proven to be an invaluable member of the A+E Networks’ international management team. Over the past three years, he has spearheaded

STREAMING

YouTube Launches VOD Movie Service YouTube announced its new on-Demand movie rental service with 3,000 available titles from Sony, Warner, Universal and Lionsgate. Now, Google’s video platform is finally competing against major streaming companies such as Hulu and Netflix.

The announcement was made by YouTube director Salar Kamangar on the platform’s official blog. The service -only available in the US for the time beingoffers classics such as ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Taxi Driver’, as well as recent releases like ‘Inception’ and ‘The King’s Speech’. Each movie will also feature neverseen-before scenes and movie extras, usually found in DVD and Blu-ray releases. Movie titles are already available for users in the US on youtube.com/movies.

Renting one film will cost an average of US$3.99 and users have 30 days to watch it. “You’re finding more and more of the content you love on YouTube, which is now available on 350 million devices. We know this because you’re watching videos to the tune of 2 billion views a day,” Kamangar said on the company’s blog. “But you’re spending just 15 minutes a day on YouTube, and spending five hours a day watching TV. As the lines between online and offline continue to blur, we think that’s going to change.”

a myriad of successful programming, marketing and sales initiatives. I believe

that with his creativity, expertise and leadership, we will see continued success not just in these areas, but across our entire international business,” Cohan said. Murphy will oversee local teams on programming, production and acquisition strategies for the international division of A+E Networks.

He will also be responsible for branding and marketing strategies and international production activities and acquisitions for channels outside the US. Murphy has been with AETN since 2008 when he served as international VP. Prior to working with AETN, he was general manager of television and marketing at FOXTEL Pty Ltd.

ADVERTISING Festival Of Media LatAm 2011 Sets its Dates Following the success of last October’s Festival of Media LatAm, the organization has confirmed a second Latin American edition. The Loews Miami Beach Hotel will host the media creativity and innovation festival which will take place on October 12-14. This new edition strengthens Festival of Media LatAm’s position as the regional forum where media and marketing leaders in Latin America share ideas. The event will showcase the best media and communications projects in the region and present an outstanding conference program, featuring guest speakers and the release of its inaugural awards program. Tickets for the first Latin American edition of the Festival were sold-out so booking for this year has already opened. A pass costs US$1,495, which includes access to a Welcome Reception and two days’ access to conference sessions, all exhibition areas and all documentation. There are also special discounts for groups and a 10% discount for early-birds booking before July 31, 2011. More information about the festival is available on the Festival’s website.

CHILE ‘Minute to Win It’ Drives Ratings for TVN Locally-adapted versions of entertainment formats for broadcast TV are definitely in their prime in Latin America. Now is the turn of Chile’s TVN, where ‘Minute to Win It’ -adapted from the 2waytraffic format- has captivated the audience since its debut on May 21. On its first night the format raised the channel’s performance on Saturday nights by 4-5 points, reporting an average rating of 12.8 from 10:12 PM to 11:49 PM with 16 point peaks at 11:24 PM. The show aired for the second time on May 28 and managed to keep its debut results.

The show reported an average of 12.7 rating points with 15 point peaks. Last Saturday TVN even managed to surpass Channel 13’s audience figures, climbing up to the general ranking’s second place.

APPOINTMENT

Lisette Osorio Promoted to International Sales Director at Caracol Televisión As the new senior director of international sales, Lisette Osorio will be responsible for coordinating and conducting Caracol’s sales strategy for its taped and format products worldwide. “I’m very excited to embrace this new challenge in my career. I will continue to improve the position of Caracol’s products, delivering innovative stories capable of captivating audiences in our markets and across new territories. With this goal in mind, our creative and commercial team is driving Caracol’s sustained growth and success toward exporting our talent,” she said. The European, Asian, African and Middle Eastern sales team will report to the recently-appointed senior director of international sales, as well as the company’s distribution team. Osorio will work from the company’s offices in Miami and will continue to report to Angélica Guerra, international VP at Caracol. “Lisette has been instrumental to Caracol’s international positioning.

This promotion recognizes her work, commitment to the company and outstanding results achieved in the territories under her lead,” Guerra said.

In regard to the distribution company’s new structure, Guerra said that “the international business area has become one of the main areas for strategic growth in the company. We are therefore strengthening our executive team in order to take the company to the next level.”

PRODUCTION Disney Confirmed a Third Season of ‘A Corazón Abierto’ Disney Media Distribution’s (DMD) screening on May 25 in its Burbank studios showcased numerous new series and come-backs, including 17 new drama series and four comedies that’ll be first launched in the US. Yet the day’s highlight was the large number of original productions from Latin America and Spain showcased at the screening. “I think we have never had such a large number of local productions made in Latin America, Portugal and Spain, markets which continue to grow strong,” Barbosa said during the introduction. ‘A Corazón Abierto’ stands out among local original productions. Adapted from the drama series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, the show has become an absolute success on Colombian channel RCN. The series is already on its second season and Barbosa officially announced that a third season with 60 episodes is on its way.

There is also a Mexican version of ‘A Corazón Abierto’ underway, which will broadcast on local channel TV Azteca. The executive also mentioned the adaptation of ‘Where’s Elisa?’ by Chilean TVN, as well as the third season of ‘The Amazing Race’ and season two of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ on Mexican TV. And, after the success achieved by the Spanish version of the ‘The Golden Girls’ format on TVE1, the company is busy creating local versions of series ‘Ghost Whisperer’ and ‘Moonlighting’ for the Spanish market. Barbosa also mentioned a 100% original Spanish production titled ‘Dreamland’ which is a 13-hour musical fiction series and a one-hour documentary featuring an interview that famous director Oliver Stone made to Fidel Castro. The film also shows Castro’s wife, who usually refuses to appear on the media.

APPOINTMENT Jon Wildman Joins the SPT Team Sony Pictures Television has appointed Jon Wildman as VP of advertising sales for its network business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his new position, Wildman will be responsible for leading SPT’s regional ad sales business. He will also be responsible for developing new business opportunities and directing the company’s global ad sales across broadcast and digital outlets. “Sony Pictures is synonymous with high quality entertainment and the programming captivates viewers throughout the region and across platforms. The opportunity to extend this experience with leading brands across EMEA is enormously exciting,” said Wildman, who will report to Eddie Nelson, SVP of channels in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “Our networks’ business across the EMEA region is rapidly growing. Jon’s track record speaks for itself, so having him join our top team is brilliant news for the business as we seek to expand,” Nelson said.

TRADESHOW NATPE to Return to Miami NATPE President and CEO Rick Feldman announced that the international tradeshow will return to Miami Beach to hold its 2012 and 2013 editions. He also announced the date and venue for NATPE 2012: January 23-25, once again at the Fontainebleau Resort. The decision was based on the success achieved by the first Miami experience in regard to the international community. “We received overwhelmingly positive responses from those who attended,” Feldman said. “We saw a big increase in attendees from the US, Europe and Latin America and everything seems to show that a considerable amount of business was done,” he added.

NATPE’s numbers for 2011 reflect Feldman’s words: 4,850 top media executives from 70 countries attended - a 35% increase from 2010. Exhibitors from 272 countries -up 20%- and 780 content buyers and acquisition executives travelled to Miami last January, representing a remarkable 116% jump from 2010. The conference program included 250 influential speakers in 50 sessions and special events. Even those who were not present in Miami were able to benefit from NATPE’s panels through a series of live streaming events. Over three days, online viewers watched 488,051 streams, where sessions on digital content proved to be the most popular, including “YouTube In Demand Brand Stars” which reported as many as 125,004 streams. “Anatomy of a Hit Web Series” follows with 99,364 streams, “TV Goes Social” recorded 77,736 streams and “New Guard of Digital Deal Makers” had 72,598 streams.

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NEWS

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The Television Academy Creates TV Format Registry The TV Science and Arts Academy introduced the TV format registry at an informative meeting with media and professionals. The event took place at the Cervantes Institute and presented speeches by the institute’s vice-president Fernando Navarrete and members of the Academy board Miguel Ángel Oliver and Carlos Martín.

According to Fernando Navarrete this initiative constitutes “a first step toward protecting our work, our ideas and our formats from a moral and a professional point of view.”

Miguel Ángel Oliver highlighted that this record was one of the current Board’s promises and something that the industry was aching for: “Creativity and the diversity of outlets is today at their peak and now is high-time to set a protecting barrier. This symbolic record shows the Television Academy’s will to set a protective legal frame for this business.” Carlos Martín pointed out that the registry “could be a pre-constitutional trial to test potential conflicts. This initiative is meant to go beyond that: we want to open a debate on intellectual property and to have the first format protection experience through the Television Academy registry.”

The format registry will be available free-of-charge to TV professionals, seeking to keep a record of formats specifically-created for audiovisual outlets. Formats will be recorded on an official registry book under their launch date and exact time of presentation and the Academy will deliver a document certifying who the author or creator and who owns its rights. Applications shall be submitted to the Television Academy headquarters stating the format’s author or creator and its description.

Descriptive copies will be submitted on paper, duly bounded and numbered.

Yet, according to the regulations, the registry may admit different platforms if necessary, depending on the type of format and its extension. With this registry the Television Academy may certify and submit technical reports on content recorded in its file and under its custody whenever required.

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US HISPANIC Univision Launches Three New Networks, Enhances Alliance with Televisa Three new TV networks -a sports network, a news network and a third one for telenovelasand nearly 500 hours of new original productions scheduled for primetime and late night are Univision’s highlights to continue keenly focused on innovation and expansion during the 2011-2012 season. The company is looking toward becoming the leading network in the US Hispanic market. Univision’s upfront recently took place at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City. The presentation was hosted by Univision executive vice president and COO Randy Falco, Univision Networks president César Conde and president of advertising sales and marketing David Lawenda. Among Univision’s major announcements for this season is its enhanced partnership with Televisa, which is now creating new and powerful cross-platform branding and integration opportunities that had not existed until now. César Conde said that this partnership is just an example of other partnerships the company holds with “other leading Spanish-language producers in the world, to deliver the content Hispanic America seeks via Univision’s multiple outlets and services. In addition, the upcoming launches of the sports, novela and news networks will further deliver culturallyrelevant, proven content to our audiences.”

The company continues to be one of the top networks in the US TV market. It is still among the top five networks regardless of language and is delivering the highest year-on-year audience growth of any broadcast network among adults 18-49 compared to last season (+8%) while its direct competitors ABC (-9%), CBS (-8%), NBC (-14%) and FOX (-5%) are down.

Univision’s networks are also achieving very good results in the US. Telefutura competes head-tohead for the #2 Spanish-language network position and Galavisión continues to be the #1 Spanishlanguage cable network in the country.

DISTRIBUTION PGS YPSILON Latin America is Born PGS and YPSILON have partnered to form PGS YPSILON Latin America, a distribution company focused on exploiting these two companies’ catalogs at a worldwide level. The new company will strengthen their presence in the region through deals with pay and broadcast TV, as well as home video and new media. Partners to this new division are Roberto Mitrani, Philippe Soutter and Guillaume Soutter. PGS YPSILON will seek to enhance popular and prestigious brands included in these companies’ portfolios, provide additional programming to third parties and explore the distribution business for fiction and animation productions from Latin America to the world. One of the new company’s portfolio highlights is ‘Little Prince’ by Saint Exupéry, one of Europe’s most expensive productions based on the book that sold 134 million copies. The Saint Exupéry family, major international broadcasters and Sony Home Video Entertainment share credits for this high-budget production. The recently-formed distribution company will also have season two of the animated series ‘Iron Man’ (26x30’) by Marvel and Method Animation among its titles. is another animated series in PGS YPSILON’s catalog. The 78-episode series has been sold to over 100 territories and now has 26 new episodes to launch in 2012. PGS YPSILON’s scheduled releases include 26 recently-completed half-hour episodes of ‘I.N.K (Invisible Network of Kids)’, three seasons of the new version of classic series ‘Marsupilami’ (78x30’), animated series ‘León’ and ‘Gees’ and the Cartoon Forum hit ‘Jungle Report’ - both the movie and short films.

‘Chaplin’, a co-production launched during the latest MIPTV edition, will also be available. Seven other series are being developed and will be announced before 2013. PGS YPSILON’s business will focus on exploring prestigious brands based on best-sellers, video games, comic characters with outstanding licensing presence or world popular series. “The company will coordinate with broadcasters to enhance business opportunities off the TV screen, exploring different business areas that may contribute with a brand’s development,” the company said in a statement.

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> BY Stephanie Biscomb How is IPTV developing in Latin America? Who are the main players in each country? What can we expect in the future? The following ttv report will answer these questions and more.

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hen an aggressive strategy against the competition is not enough, the only alternative left is to expand into valueadded services. With this in mind telcos are now venturing into the pay TV market in an attempt to enlarge their saturated subscriber bases. They first started by incorporating satellite TV to offer triple and quad play packages. Yet there was another low-cost and long-term solution that actually provides more advantages: fiber optic or FTTH (Fiber-ToThe-Home). Fiber optic lines are definitely faster, more reliable and profitable when it comes to broadcasting digital data. Telcos have found in fiber optics a way to concentrate their entire offerings for households in just one network.

IPTV is widely known as “internet television”, a label that is actually misleading, making it easily mistakable with a number of other new platforms like Connected TV, OTT (Over-The-Top) and Web TV. “These are actually different. IPTV is a cable network but it works through an internet protocol and uses completely private lines. Even though they use the same IP to connect to the internet, they also use a VPN to incorporate the TV feature. These are therefore completely private lines and one doesn’t even touch the internet network,” Álvaro Gazzolo, president and CEO of IPTV Americas, told ttv in November 2010.

“So we now have what is known as Web TV, which is basically what users get from the internet, and is really low quality. And the latest technology is what is known as OTT, Over-The-Top video, which is

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also linked to Web TV. OTT basically works with a set-top box, which receives content from the PC to broadcast it on TV sets,” he added.

IPTV IN LATIN AMERICA. According to Signals Telecom Consulting’s study “IPTV Market Analysis in Latin America” released in January 2011, IPTV in Latin America is basically a premium platform targeted at users with high-purchasing power. Brazil, Colombia and Mexico -the region’s top three markets- will concentrate over 70% of Latin American IPTV subscribers by 2015.

Yet what does the business landscape look like now? According to BNAmericas, in the last quarter of 2007 there were 8,991 IPTV subscribers and the overall subscriber number jumped to 58,440 in the second half of 2008. More recent data released by Dataxis NexTV in February 2011 forecasts that there will be 910,000 IPTV connections by the end of the year, while in late 2010 there were close to 400,000 subscribers. This means that the region’s IPTV is growing fast. According to forecasts the overall number of IPTV connections in the region will grow to 3.9 million by the end of 2015. Yet this number could be even higher if telcos were allowed to provide this service in Argentina.

BRAZIL. Telefónica is the largest IPTV supplier in Brazil, providing the service through optic fiber. Yet more companies may start to offer the service in 2012, especially now that the government is planning to release licenses and allow telcos to provide the service without prior approval by the local regulator (Anatel).

COLOMBIA. Une leads the IPTV business both in Colombia and all across Latin America. By the end of the third quarter of 2010, the telco had close to 125,000 IPTV subscribers, the largest subscriber base in the region.

CHILE. The IPTV landscape in Chile is headed by Telefónica del Sur, one of the top three IPTV companies in Latin America with 34,557 users in December 2010 (according to data released by Chile’s Telecommunications Division - Subtel).

In September 2010, Telefónica de Chile -through its Movistar brandstarted to market VOD through IPTV in the capital city, Santiago. The service is currently available only to a “restricted” group of customers within the so-called Proyecto Benedictinos. The project connects

Despite the fact that technology is growing stronger in Latin America, the main obstacle hindering IPTV’s expansion in certain countries is legal regulations, which directly refrain players with the highest potential to provide the service (such is the case of Argentina) or hamper IPTV’s cable laying, implementation and commercialization.

OBSTACLES IN LATIN AMERICA. Legal regulations are not the only enemy for IPTV in Latin America, where FTTH has just begun to take its first steps. “The problem is that we thought every telephone company was going to lay the last mile of FTTH lines to offer a much wider household broadband connection and implement IPTV at the same time,” Álvaro Gazzolo told ttv. “But what really happened was that no telephone company committed to IPTV. They only said it was too expensive and then chose satellite and DTH services. They made their minds for the cheapest alternative to keep their customers.”

Yet Latin American telcos have started to change. Fortunately many companies have reassessed long-term contracting costs for their pay TV services and started to turn their eyes to IPTV. Probably the fact that this platform has gained a new role in highly developed markets has a lot to do with this change in perspective. “Here in the US, DTH and cable companies are losing about 500,000 subscribers per month to IPTV,” Gazzolo said. “This is mainly because this technology is more advanced and also because costs have dropped.”

As a result, a number of initiatives to either implement or improve IPTV are taking place today in Latin America: IPTV is now definitely taking its first steps toward becoming a massive platform in the continent.

upper-class homes to a FTTH network located within a small area of the city. The company plans to extend the service to the rest of Santiago in 2011 and progressively expand it into other regions.

MEXICO. Maxom provides IPTV in Mexico since May 1999 and is also the second largest IPTV supplier in the region after Colombia’s Une. According to data released in April 2011 by the CINIT (Telecommunication Research and Innovation Center), Maxcom’s subscriber base grew 64% in 2010. Maxcom had 49,711 customers by the end of 2010 compared to the 30,371 subscribers it had in 2009. The company reported the same year-on-year growth rate (also 64%) from 2008 to 2009.

ARGENTINA. Legal regulations in Argentina prevent telephone companies from offering pay TV services. Yet there are several cooperative companies interested in launching the service. Almost all of them are currently testing the service.

PARAGUAY. IPTV services in Paraguay will be handled by state telco COPACO (Compañía Paraguaya de Comunicaciones). The company is considering investing US$20 million to launch a triple play service before the year ends.

REST OF LATIN AMERICA. Other countries are in talks to lay fiber optics to offer IPTV in the region or convert their set-top boxes to provide the service via satellite. CANTV will do it in Venezuela, Uruguay’s state company ANTEL has already started to lay its cables and Ecuador and Costa Rica are following suit. Countries like Panama and the Dominican Republic also already have operative IPTV services. ttv

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At the Forefront of the TV Industry The new president of the Colombian broadcast TV channel talked to ttv about his strategic plans for the company, aimed at placing the broadcaster at the forefront of the TV industry.

> By Sebastián AMOROSO

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amous businessman and board member of Grupo Santo Domingo Carlos Alejandro Pérez Dávila took over as president of Caracol Televisión last February. The executive, who has an extensive trackrecord in the finance field, served as a board member at Grupo Santo Domingo for years and has been recently appointed chairman of the Colombian channel. In dialogue with ttv, Carlos Pérez Dávila talks about the moves that will boost Caracol Televisión into the future.

“We see Caracol not only as a channel but as a media and entertainment company, a regional leader in production and technical services, broadcaster of its own and thirdparty content, which will continue to market internationally as we have been very successful doing,” Pérez Dávila says.

Source: Revista Dinero - Alejandro Acosta

Carlos Pérez Dávila,

President of Caracol Televisión

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Caracol Televisión is working to design and structure several business units. This process has been focused on developing units that “work quite autonomously,” the executive says. Pérez Dávila also highlights past and present teams that make Caracol’s family, also part of the channel’s growth process. “We are convinced that we are where we are today because of the people who are with us in this project,” he says.

INNOVATIVE TELEVISION. In a booming Latin American TV industry, the chairman of Caracol TV outlines some distinctive features that make Colombian production stand out. “Colombian television is going through a very significant phase. TV content exports make our country known around the world. Just as Colombian coffee and flowers are known worldwide, Colombian content production is contributing to raise awareness of our country’s name. And Caracol has been behind many of these export products,” he

says. The executive adds that the channel’s board members will remain alert and willing to invest in innovation and development of new formats to continue winning audiences in Colombia and elsewhere.

Pérez Dávila highlights the success of Colombian content worldwide and how fierce market competition has become “as a result of cable TV’s high penetration,” he says. This has forced the company to be more and more creative in the content it produces. Based on this competitive landscape and the audience’s demands for the near future, “co-productions will be the model to follow in the short run,” the executive says. “Whether a production is feasible or not will mostly depend on how successful it can be in the international market. So it is extremely important to strengthen the marketing muscle of content aimed at a global market.”

The channel has recently launched the eighth season of reality show ‘Desafío, La Lucha de Couple’s Therapy 40 x 60’

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las Regiones’ (Challenge: The Battle of the Regions). The executive talked about the position fiction, entertainment formats and reality shows have gained in Colombian TV. “I believe that reality shows reached different screens some years ago because of two needs: the need to deliver innovative formats and the need to fight against rising production costs led by US players. I feel that reality shows are what contest shows, series or telenovelas were at a certain time: new formats brought up by creative divisions to deliver something new to the audience. The interesting and exciting thing about this world is that we need to be constantly renovating ourselves to give the audience what they are looking for,” he says.

ECONOMICS AND TELEVISION. Pérez Dávila belongs to the finance world. He is an economist and political scientist with an MBA from the University of Cambridge in the UK. His career has been based on his activity as an investment banker in international firms such as Goldman Sachs and SG Warburg.

The question is: how does economic stability impact the development of the continent’s TV industry? “It is clear that as a businessman and investor I can tell you that when investing I look for clear and stable rules. Countries with legal stability increase investors’ confidence, which translates into heavier investment, critical to achieving sustained economic

COLLYWOOD In recent years Colombia has become a regional leading producer and distributor in the audiovisual content industry. This has earned the Colombian audiovisual industry the name of “Collywood”. “The success achieved over recent years is the result of our people’s skills, the talent exhibited by our casts, creative teams and executives. One of this country’s main advantages is its human assets. Private channels have made heavy investments to develop the industry, which is becoming more prestigious every day. Today Caracol’s productions are a for-export Colombian product, valued by millions worldwide. As a result, our series, telenovelas and our formats in general have been captivating audiences in major world markets and this should make us feel proud of ourselves as Colombians,” Pérez Dávila says.

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growth. Investors in the television industry are not unaware of these facts,” Pérez Dávila concludes. ttv Love and Fear 120 x 60’

THE DTT ERA Caracol Televsión has heavily invested in digital technology. “DTT standards and parameters are provided by the National Television Committee and, as usual, Caracol respects its decisions and provisions. Caracol has lately taken part in a number of discussions where we have shared our ideas about a proper DTT regulation outline. We believe that the success of DTT in Colombia will depend -to a large extent- on how piracy may affect cable TV. Today cable TV penetration in Colombia is estimated in 80%, and 45% to 50% of it is said to be illegal. In this new landscape, it would be more likely for potential viewers to give a real chance to DTT offerings. Otherwise, its implementation would be more complicated,” Pérez Dávila says.

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How are Latin American screens being programmed? Thirteen different executives from the region’s television industry answer this question and more in the following pages. The momentum of local production -with format adaptation at the helm-, a new place for series on TV grids and the rise of independent content as an alternative to major studio content are some of the most outstanding trends in the industry’s forthcoming future.

MEXICO | TELEVISA Alberto Ciurana, VP of programming at Televisa said that Televisa has made “major changes” in its programming for 2011. The four Televisa broadcast networks -Canal de las Estrellas, Channel 5, Foro TV and Galavisióncontribute to consolidate its leadership within the Mexican market. “This has provided us a much more efficient audience distribution: a news channel that works from 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM (Foro TV), strong telenovela slots (Galavisión) and a solid weekend programming now filled with successful entertainment formats for the whole family on Canal de las Estrellas.” One of the network’s most successful entertainment formats is ‘100 Mexicanos Dijeron’, distributed by FremantleMedia and adapted from its original version ‘Family Feud’. The other one is ‘Little Giants’, an original format

by Televisa that has yielded excellent results on Sunday nights. “After ‘Bailando por un Sueño’ and ‘Cantando por un Sueño’ [an adaptation of BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’] it has been one of our most successful shows,” Ciurana said. The network is still reinforcing Channel 5’s programming, a necessary step to consolidate its position among the 18-34 demo. “What is really important for us is what is going on on Sunday nights when we get the family together to watch contest shows that are renovated and adapted to suit the Mexican audience,” Ciurana said.

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MEXICO | TV AZTECA Rodrigo Fernández, general director at Azteca 7 and acquisitions director at TV Azteca, talked about a major change in the role series are playing in the group’s channel grids. “We had been vertically scheduling series for four years. Now we changed to a horizontal approach and it is yielding very good results. We have series at 8:30 and 9:30 PM Mondays through Thursdays but in a more telenovela-like programming strategy,” he said. This change came as a result of dropping audience figures recorded by TV series, a trend that was successfully turned around by shifting the grid’s structure. One of the titles that TV Azteca has more emphatically promoted is ‘NCIS’ (CBS). Fernández also provided details on the rest of the grid. ”We are producing for the 10:30 PM timeslot. We launched our first telenovela, ‘Bajo el Alma’, on channel 7 on May 30. At the same time we launched Fox’s ‘White Collar’ at 8:30 PM, CBS’ ‘Hawai 5-0’ at 9:30 PM and a telenovela at 10:30 PM, all on the same day,” he said. As for game and reality show formats, ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ aired on Azteca 7 but “wasn’t an extraordinary success,” the executive said. “We launched the second season on Azteca 13 during the usual contest show timeslot and it improved substantially and became a huge hit. We will actually have a season two. What I want to say is that people need to build up a habit. That is why we decided to remove all contest shows from Azteca 7 and, instead, schedule them where people already know they can find contest shows: Azteca 13.”

BRAZIL | BAND TV Helio Vargas, programming director at Band TV, confirmed the general trend toward locally-adapted entertainment formats. “Our share has significantly grown with these kinds of shows,” he said. Such is the case of ‘CQC’, a journalistic docu-relality show by Eyeworks/Cuatro Cabezas that Band TV adapted for Brazil’s primetime. According to the executive, it is the highest-rated show in its timeslot. “We have a different product every day at 10:00 PM,” Vargas said. This vertical primetime also includes two other docu-reality shows that have yielded very good results: ‘A Liga’ and ‘Polícia 24 Horas’, based on an Endemol format that’s known in the Southern Cone as ‘Policías en Acción’. Vargas also mentions the success achieved by ‘The Phone’, a FremantleMedia format. Band TV is currently producing another FremantleMedia game show for Saturday’s primetime that will premiere later this year. When asked about what buyers are looking for, Vargas said that the network is currently focused on entertainment formats, movies and series regardless of their origin. “I don’t care where content is from. If it is good, we go for it and it is our pleasure to have it on our network,” he said. “But most products come from North America so it is easier and more common to have this kind of content,” he added. This is evidenced by the network’s lack of output or volume deals with major Hollywood studios.

“Fox, Sony, CBS... we negotiate with all of them,” he concluded.

CHILE |CHILEVISIÓN Pablo Morales, content and production director at Chilevisión, is very pleased with the balance the channel has found in terms of programming. Everything from its morning slate to its tele-series in the afternoon timeslot -going through its news shows and hit formats like ‘Talento Chileno’ [the local adaptation of FremantleMedia’s ‘Got Talent’]- a show that the network holds an extremely strong position in the market. “Our success comes as a result of the networks’ new releases and our stable programming. We are very pleased with the results achieved by our shows and this proves that we are on the right path,” he said. Some particular alliances, including an adaptation deal signed with FremantleMedia to produce the local version of format ‘Talento Chileno’ and a co-production agreement signed with Endemol for the ‘Policías en Acción’ format -known in Chile as ‘PDI: Brigada Policial’- are key to the network’s success. As for the plethora of content available at the LA Screenings, the executive said that the Chilevisión team found many interesting things. Yet certain formats have worked out much better for the channel than others. This is why the executive was adamant to clarify that the network will be sticking to the same line that it has followed so far.

HISPANIC US | CHANNEL 22 Pablo Urquiza, programming VP at Los Ángeles’ Channel 22, illustrates a particular case. After Comcast bought NBC the channel changed owners due to legal matters and is now the Meruelo Group’s first TV venture. “This is an opportunity for us to start producing and investing in programming that wasn’t on the agenda up until a while ago,” the executive said. Los Angeles is the largest Hispanic TV market in the US and Channel 22 caters to a growing Mexican target. “Our basic product is classic Mexican films such as Vicente Fernández, Pepe Aguilar, Valentín Trujillo. What’s interesting is that last year for the first time the channel acquired a non-Mexican show. We bought the Uruguayan show ‘Urban Tales’, dubbed it into Mexican Spanish and it became our highest-rated show. It was a new alternative option. This year at NATPE we signed a deal for Artear’s ‘Killer Women’ and it is yielding very good results,” Urquiza said. After a six-month negotiation process, Channel 22 acquired exclusive rights over Sony’s ‘Pretenders’. This was an unprecedented deal for independent Spanishspeaking TV in the US. “We won’t try to compete against telenovelas. It would be suicidal to try to compete with Telemundo or Univision. But we do believe that we have a niche there, a window to look for good drama productions, action or crime series and I am sure we have arguments to break into that market niche. This is going to be our goal for 2012-2013,” he said.

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PERU | AMÉRICA TV Eric Jurgensen, general manager at América TV, is one of the most representative voices in Latin America’s most important emerging market. “Peru is definitely a market that is constantly growing. From US$65 million in 2003 we have grown to about US$300 million in 2011, with a lot of production,” the executive said. América TV has been the number one broadcast TV channel in Peru for over seven years now and today enjoys 38% share, ten points above its closest competitor. “About 60% of our programming’s structure is local and this kind of content has worked out the best for us,” he said. The Peruvian market has managed to raise an entire generation of top-quality screenwriters, producers, performers and talented professionals at a very low cost. “Everybody is welcome to come and produce here but under one condition: we manage all costs ourselves,” he said. “We do not want large companies coming and raising the country’s production costs. We do not want to see what happened in Colombia happening here. In Colombia, telenovelas currently cost up to US$90,000 or US$100,000 an hour.”

It’s no surprise then that adapting entertainment formats is becoming a major business. This low-cost and successful product is easy to reproduce and present on every broadcast TV channel in Latin America. América TV is no exception. The channel broadcast two successful seasons of ‘Minute to Win It’ and one season of ‘El Gran Show’ based on the ‘Bailando por un Sueño’ format by Televisa. “I think that everything should be adapted locally. Taped content is dead, at least on broadcast TV, due to cable’s high penetration rates,” Jurgensen said. “Cartoons, series and even movies are yielding very low audience results.”

PERU | FRECUENCIA LATINA Cecilia Gómez de la Torre, Programming Manager at Frecuencia Latina, highlights that Peru’s market growth has been driven by original production. “We have taken over the number two position in the market thanks to our original programming. Mondays through Fridays our programming schedule is 90% our own original production. We have grown a lot in journalistic and fiction content. Competition is strong among channels, especially those like us that invest in local productions. This sets higher quality standards and gives way to developing for-export products,” she said. The network is now shooting its own version of ‘LaLola’ (an original idea

by Argentine company Underground Content) and has also partnered with local production companies to develop mini-series and other projects. “Our products have reached interesting market positions and now we are exporting our formats. For instance, ‘Mi Problema con las Mujeres’ is a Frecuencia Latina format that is currently being produced in Israel and has also been acquired by a major US network,” Gómez said.

URUGUAY | LA TELE Eugenio Restano, programming manager at La Tele, said that Uruguay’s leading channel has been spending these last few years focusing on ‘Addictions’, its most recent production. “Each episode of this series features a different addiction: religion, alcohol, drugs, shopping, internet and others,” the executive said. Its production counted with a larger-than-average budget considering the market. The series has 13 episodes and will run from June 29 to September 21. This co-production between the channel and local production house Contenidos TV has already been showcased at several industry tradeshows and was conceived with the international market in mind. “We also have another production in the works called ‘Mistreated’. We already shot its first episode and are looking to generate presale opportunities to continue with its production,” Restano said. ‘Mistreated’ is an anthology series that focuses on domestic and gender violence. In regard to taped content, La Tele’s screen usually carries content from Argentine distributor Artear. Such is the case of the telenovela ‘Herederos de una Venganza’, which became “the most-watched TV show in Uruguay the day it premiered,” Restano said. Series ‘Los Únicos’ and ‘Swindlers’ also stand out from the channel’s grid. The latter is based on the Argentine movie ‘9 Queens’ and has “an excellent cast and is of outstanding quality.”

URUGUAY | SAETA CHANNEL 10 Luis Castro, production manager at Uruguay’s Channel 10, talked about another ambitious fiction project: ‘Dance!’. Targeted at a teen audience, the series is the result of a co-production with Spanish company Pow Wow. Its 80 episodes will require an investment of around US$5 million and a team of 180 people. A 1,000 square meter (10,764 square feet) complex is currently being built for this production. Uruguay’s TV audiences are not used to watching locally-produced fiction shows, let alone on daytime and access primetime slots which are normally reserved for talk shows or entertainment shows. “We chose to work with this genre based on the good performances it has achieved worldwide on several thematic channels, in addition to the genre’s potential to generate associated businesses like live shows, music albums and merchandising,” Castro said. The channel had a previous experience with ‘Porque te Quiero así’ which aired in 2010 and has a second season in the works. According to the executive, Uruguay has many advantages in the production field. “Its social, political and economic stability, its noble weather, its diversity of landscapes, short distances…. We also have qualified staff to work in the TV business. Maybe what we do need is more training in fiction, because it has not been done before,” he said.

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COSTA RICA | TELETICA Jorge Garro, vice-general manager at Teletica, described his channel grid as a “mixture of US series, with few telenovelas and a lot of programming for the whole family to enjoy.” The network also scheduled Disney’s format ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ and its good results have allowed it to continue airing during the second half of the year.

“This year we also started with ‘Minute to Win It’ and it is also doing very well,” Garro added. The executive explained the success achieved by game show formats in Costa Rica. “‘Minute to Win It’, for example, is successful because we’ve all played some of those games before but we probably never thought about it because they are basic activities. They are very interactive: viewers can do everything from home,” he said. According to the executive, the advertising market in Costa Rica is close to the US$50-60 million mark and Teletica’s fiercest competitor is Repretel (Grupo Ángel González). The channel’s main strategy is based on original production, which takes up 52% of its grid. “We have ‘A Toda Máquina’ which is a variety show that airs on Sundays and we also have ‘Sábado Feliz’, two shows that cater to the entire family,” he said. A show for kids titled ‘Recreo Grande’ and a celebrity magazine are also part of Teletica’s schedule. Teletica holds volume deals with several Hollywood studios including Disney, Warner and Sony, Fox for its series and Globo and Telemundo for their telenovelas.

PUERTO RICO | WAPA TV José Ramos, president of Wapa TV, mentioned the upcoming release of the Puerto Rican version of the ‘Idols’ format as one more way to keep working on a programming strategy that has led the channel to the top of the country’s audience charts. “We have been the number one channel for almost three years,” he said. One of the channel’s weaknesses was its audience results among women but the channel’s programming strategy for 2010 was successful and managed to place Wapa at the top of audience ratings among female viewers. The channel has also committed to the format business, producing its own and third party formats. This is the first time the company cut a deal with FremantleMedia to produce contest show ‘Idols’. “Last year we started with our original format ‘Transformación Total’, a show about overweight people. And this year we produced its second season in January-May and also achieved very good results. So we came up with the idea to have another format for the second half of the year. This is the reason why we decided to sign this deal with FremantleMedia for the ‘Idols’ format,” the executive said. Ramos said that the channel wants to continue seeking new formats. “Reality show formats are in fashion now.

We are willing to form alliances with product owners and here we have seen some formats that might work out,” Ramos said. As for the Puerto Rican market, the president of Wapa said that the industry has significantly grown over the last year. “Last year we grew 8% and it was very encouraging to have numbers that show the country is leaving the economy’s stagnation behind. These first months of 2011 have been quite slow but I am confident that the second semester will be better. Yet there is still recession in Puerto Rico,” he concluded.

PANAMA | TVN Luis Mouynes, programming and production director at TVN and TVMax, mentioned the company’s ongoing agreement with Fox for its movies and series and talked about what he saw during the LA Screenings. “‘Terranova’ seemed amazing and was what I liked most. I think it can work on broadcast TV. I also found ‘The Killing’ fantastic,” he said. The executive manages two broadcast TV channels: TVN, which features telenovelas, news shows and local productions and TV Max, featuring mostly sports and series. As for programming trends, Mouynes said that original production plays a leading role in his strategy, along with some taped content. “We have telenovelas that we acquired abroad and we also have locally-produced content such as reality shows, dance shows and singing and music contests.

We just launched our first fiction. This is a growing market and that gives us the chance to start doing different things,” he said. He also added that the company is currently in talks to partner with E! Entertainment Television for another co-production.

LATIN AMERICA | TBSLA Ángel Zambrano, VP of content acquisitions and syndication sales at Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (TBSLA), claimed that series still work for his channel’s grid. “As everyone else, we came to LA Screenings to find new series,” he said highlighting the success achieved by TBSLA’s channels with content like ‘Pretty Little Liars’ on Boomerang. Last year was definitely a very good year for TBSLA, especially when it comes to new experiences. Such was the case of ‘Project Runway’, a FremantleMedia format that TBSLA adapted for Latin American audiences. The adaptation was broadcast on Fashion TV (now Glitz) and the group is already seeking to make its second season. “[‘Project Runway’] was our first format, our first experience,” Zambrano said. “It was a very good experience that yielded very good results. Outside the channel, the product also achieved extraordinary results,” he said.

TBSLA is also planning ahead for changes that may affect the pay TV industry, an industry which is very vulnerable to new platforms. “In today’s landscape and with cable TV penetration on the rise, we are working in an environment where pressure increases as the number of subscribers grows across the industry. Yet at the same time and from a strategic point of view, technology has developed quickly and we are now preparing to take the next step,” he said.

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Global Agency attended the LA Screenings for the first time to showcase a solid catalog that included formats and scripted content.

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partnership comes from our work with Miditech in India who produced ‘Perfect Bride’ and won an award for the best adaptation of an existing format in the Asian Television Awards 2010,” Pinto says.

Keeping such good growth rates requires a worldwide expansion strategy toward highly promising markets. It is not hard to imagine then why Global Agency is turning its eyes to Latin America. “Our formats and series would work perfectly in this region so we’ll be focusing on Latin America in the upcoming months,” the executive says. “Our dating and style formats in particular will create great buzz in this market. We hope to build strong relationships with leading Latin American companies,” Pinto says.

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One of the distributor’s first steps toward building these relationships has been a recently-signed agreement with Venevision International to distribute some of the Venezuelan company’s content in Central and Eastern Europe. “Venevision is very experienced in producing top quality content while we bring a dedicated team to the table and our great name in the industry,” the executive says. Global Agency already represents three major production companies from Turkey and is the exclusive distributor of content by Mega, Greece’s number one channel. “Another strong international

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“It is the most expensive series produced in Turkey to date and the story lines have a strong appeal for an international audience,” the executive says. “The costumes are lavish, the actors are famous across the region and the series has just won four awards in the Turkish Emmy ceremony.” ‘Magnificent Century’ -which earned 71.7% share in Turkey- already has a second season underway. According to a statement released by the company, 19 territories have already expressed their interest in the series and distribution deals will be sealed by the end of June. “We have set the goal to license this series in 30 territories before the end of the year,” Pinto says.

Global Agency also offers co-production services in Turkey and India. “We have coproduced our first movie in Turkey and won several awards this year,” he says. “We prefer this year to act as a distributor in Latin America but would consider co-production deals in the upcoming years,” Izzet Pinto says. ttv

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urkish distribution company Global Agency visited the LA Screenings for the first time in its short five years of existence. “Global Agency keeps growing around 150-200% a year. We plan to keep this growth for 2011 and 2012,” Izzet Pinto, CEO of the distribution company, tells ttv. “For some industry experts, we are one of the fastest growing distributors in the industry,” he says.

an epic series that is set during Suleiman The Magnificent’s reign.

MAGNIFICIENT CONTENT. “Global Agency has built a reputation for great primetime reality formats and, in recent years, we have concentrated on adding series and scripted series to our portfolio. Now we have a very strong portfolio and most of our formats and series are very well suited to the Latin market,” the CEO of the company says. Its catalog highlight is definitely ‘Magnificent Century’,

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oberto Romagnoli was born in Argentina and holds a 10 year track-record in the television industry. He’s currently TV Azteca’s VP of production and previously worked for generalist Mexican broadcasters, holding leading roles in Hispanic network Telemundo, Univision and Televisa. Now, the executive is in charge of all entertainment programming for the network in Mexico and for Azteca América.

“Our production is strong this year,” he told ttv during the last LA Screenings, held on May 18-28 in Los Angeles, US. “We are working on entertainment shows, contest programs, international formats....

We will start producing ‘Push the Button’, a FremantleMedia format that has achieved great success in England. The Mexican

version will be called ‘Aprieta y gana’. We also began to produce a second season of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’, a product that has world fame and we are very confident about

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Vice-president of Production at TV Azteca TV Azteca -property of Grupo Salinas- is getting ready to produce new television projects with entertainment formats like FremantleMedia’s ‘Push the Button’ and Sony Pictures Television’s ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionarie?’ standing out in its list. In this interview, the head of its production division walks through this year’s announcements.

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the results this second season may draw,” the executive said.

In 2011 TV Azteca will also produce a new season of ‘La Academia’, a musical reality show created back in 2002 that will enter its ninth season on the air. “We are about to close a deal with a very important celebrity from the Hispanic world to host the show,” Romagnoli said. The network is also getting ready to shoot a long-form unscripted weekend show that will launch on Azteca 7.

TV Azteca produces 10,000 hours of TV programming a year and its production complex -rightfully named Azteca Novelas studios- is one of the greatest audiovisual content production factories. Romagnoli also highlighted the importance of attracting international talent in order to create and develop several projects.

“We are seeking talented professionals among Latin American and world producers to join us. I want to bring talent to turn Azteca into a content factory with the best people to do it on board,” the executive said. “We are producing a lot this year. We have heavily invested in the projects we will launch. Mexico is a huge market even at a world scale. We are constantly trying to produce new content and deliver the audience the best TV programming they can get,” Romagnoli concluded. ttv

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his year’s LA Screenings have been very fruitful for those that booked a suite at the Hyatt Century Plaza seeking new buyers. Record TV Network was no exception. “The tradeshow proved to be very receptive of our new releases and we believe excellent deals are on the way,” Delmar Andrade, the channel’s international sales director, told ttv.

The Brazilian broadcaster launched three productions at the 2011 LA Screenings: ‘Samson and Delilah’ ‘Vidas en Juego’ and ‘Rebelde’, a 100% Brazilian adaptation of the Televisa telenovela, based on a format by the now-defunct Cris Morena Group.

“We only took the general concept and the title from the original version of ‘Rebelde’; the story was fully written and adapted in Brazil,” Andrade said. The series deals with current issues affecting young people today, such as alcoholism and bulimia, even though the executive said this version is closer to a comedy than the Mexican version.

“With ‘Rebelde’ we tried to build not only a telenovela but also a channel to convey good ideas to young people that they could reflect upon,” Andrade said. “Producing a telenovela just to entertain is not difficult but producing a telenovela that also conveys values to the viewer’s cultural background and character, that is our goal.”

The formula has definitely worked.

According to the executive, ‘Rebelde’ earned 24 rating points and 38% share in Rio de

Janeiro, yielding similar results in the rest of the Brazilian capitals. “We have obtained

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extraordinary results considering that the show’s original version has already aired on other channel,” the executive said. “The version we are currently producing in Brazil has a new approach, a new opportunity to make the product grow and we are doing extremely well.”

The show has been so successful that even Televisa showed interest on the final product. “They loved our production of ‘Rebelde’ so much that they are dubbing it into Spanish to broadcast it possibly around July or August this year,” Andrade said. “The Latin American market will be surprised by this telenovela. We truly believe that ‘Rebelde’ will be this year’s hit show in Latin America,” he said.

The executive also said that this year Record TV Network will be producing a new telenovela. This time it will be an epic telenovela based on the Bible called ‘La Historia de David’. “We are trying not to have a religious approach with this telenovela but turn a religious story into a conventional drama instead, so people can get to understand it better,” the executive said. “This 2011-2012 season is likely to be crowded with hit shows.” ttv

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The distribution company has great expectations for Discop Budapest.

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fter almost eleven years working in Telemundo Internacional’s sales division for Eastern Europe -more indirectly before and completely into it now- Melissa Pillow is an insider to the region’s TV industry. She has a clear mind about what Eastern Europe is currently demanding and even knows what telenovelas have been popular in that region since the 80s. But audience preferences on this genre have evolved “Traditional telenovelas targeting housewives or older ladies seeking a sweet story about a poor young girl who falls in love with a rich man and then they live happily ever after, has always worked out well there. But Telemundo started to offer different telenovelas, full of action and breaking a little bit the traditional mold,” Melissa Pillow, sales manager for Eastern and Central Europe at Telemundo Internacional, tells ttv.

The executive remembers the first one, a Colombian telenovela called ‘¿Por qué Diablos?’. From that moment on, the offering started to change following the audience’s –and, consequently, the channels’- good reception. They demanded “traditional stories but with either a little action or set in modern scenarios,” Pillow says, highlighting telenovelas by Chile’s TVN -distributed

by Telemundo Internacional- which have a thriller-like approach and have drawn excellent results. These new alternatives allow channels to keep the female adult demo watching while incorporating a younger audience and even men.

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HIGHLIGHTS. It is easy to predict then that Telemundo Internacional’s catalog for Discop Budapest is going to be full of this kind of telenovelas, which have some differences compared to more traditional ones. “We’ll be landing in Eastern Europe very strong. Discop is a very important market to cut new deals.

We will be showcasing two new productions currently launching on Telemundo: ‘My Heart Beats for Lola Volcan’ and ‘Behind Closed Doors’,” Pillow says.

Doors’ -Telemundo’s version of Chilean format ‘La Familia de al Lado’- is a love story but set in a mysterious and frightening context.

These two telenovelas will be the distributor’s new releases for this edition of Discop. Yet Pillow is 100% positive that that the star in Telemundo’s portfolio is ‘The Queen of the South’. “It is Tepuy/Telemundo’s greatest hit,” she says. The telenovela has achieved good audience results in the US, where it competes with major English-speaking networks such as NBC, CBS and ABC every night at 10:00 PM. It is currently airing in Albania and “will be soon launched in Hungary. It has also been sold in Slovakia, Georgia and Rumania and sale deals are about to be closed in a few more countries,” Pillow says.

THE REGION FROM INSIDE. In Eastern Europe the company’s distribution business scheme changes depending on each territory. “There are countries where we have buying deals, others where we go channel by channel selling our products -such as Croatia, Albania, Lithuania or Hungary- and other countries where distribution is almost entirely handled by local companies,” the executive says. It works like this in countries like Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia, where Telemundo Internacional usually sells the taped product to a local distributor which later adds subtitles in the local language and later redistributes it again to channels. “Yet we’d rather sell directly to the channel, due to financial reasons and because we like to be in direct contact with the channel and know how the telenovela is doing, what the broadcaster thinks, how we can improve our service and what they will be seeking for in the next one,” Pillow says.

Even though ‘My Heart Beats…’ is a remake of a classic telenovela (‘Paquita Gallego’, a 90s world hit), the executive says that the new version incorporates a modern twist that better suits today’s demand. ‘Behind Closed

The executive is optimistic about this region’s current economic landscape. “In Russia, after three years without production companies producing anything, companies are now looking to produce again and channels are getting requests,” she concludes. ttv

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fter a negotiation round that took place during the MIPCOM, NATPE and MIPTV, Juan Fernandez’s recently-born distribution company World Media Pictures made its official debut at the latest edition of the LA Screenings.

World Media Pictures will travel to DISCOP Budapest to offer several different products including telenovelas, documentaries and movies. The company’s slate is headed by ‘Amores como el nuestro’ (71x60’), series ‘Sabrosa Pasión Plus’ (52x60’) and documentaries ‘Cachao: Uno Más’, ‘Nightmares Red White and Blue’, ‘Poliwood’, ‘Run For Your Life’ and ‘Waveriders’.

“We had been preparing the launch of this company for months. We were in talks with several producers, telenovela and film companies and we ended up signing deals with some of them,” Fernández said. “We signed, for instance, a distribution deal with High Hill, a large Miami-based production company that has several interesting shows.

And we also signed a deal for several movie titles belonging to Screen Media, a New Yorkbased company with an extensive catalog.”

Fernandez also mentioned other more specific agreements such as ‘Amores como el Nuestro’, “a telenovela by Panamericana Televisión that had never travelled before and that we are lucky to have in our catalog now,” the executive said.

Since the moment of its conception, the World Media team set off on a number of trips Bellas en Acción Light Entertainment

Juan A. Fernández, VP of World Media Pictures

After much planning and negotiations, World Media Pictures presented its catalog during the last LA Screenings.

Juan Antonio Fernández, the company’s VP, comments on some of the essential aspects of the recent launch.

By Rodrigo Ros

aimed at closing several key deals. “We toured around several Latin American countries and then realized that our catalog was mature enough to launch into this adventure… and so we did,” Fernandez said.

Fernandez is aware that World Media will be one of the youngest companies in the market and realizes the company will have to compete against big players. Yet “in the same way as we respect a lot our competitors, we also respect our clients and we believe the screen is sacred so we will work closely with our clients seeking to be efficient and effective. A smaller company can also be faster and more efficient,” he pointed out.

Juan Fernández also said expecting to close some Budapest, during DISCOP. will be found in suite 222 hotel. ttv

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LA SCREENINGS 2011

May 18-28, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California Despite a notorious drop in attendees, this edition of the LA Screenings proved to be fruitful and productive for everyone involved. This was taken as a clear sign that the US economy is finally getting back on its feet and executives seemed relieved to be in such a blooming environment. Major and independent producers showcased their content for the upcoming season with great reception. The traditional studios’ screenings also generated enough buzz to keep buyers wanting to see more. The Hyatt’s lobby and halls were also bursting with insight regarding new trends. Netflix’s interest in the Latin American market opened up an informal albeit fascinating debate on the profitability and viability of VOD platforms in the region. Peru constantly came up in conversations on new emerging markets and an astounding number of buyers highlighted entertainment formats as their most successful ventures into low-cost and captivating local productions. All in all, the LA Screenings left industry reps pleased and hyped-up, with many of them already making plans for DISCOP East before the market was even over.

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05. Thomas Sitrin and Emilio Revelo (World Wrestling Entertainment International).

02. Alberto Ciurana (Televisa).

06. Ángel Zambrano (TBS Latin America), Tatiana Rodríguez (Nickelodeon Latin America) and Roxana Rotundo (VIP 2000).

03. Paulo Laserna (Caracol Televisión) and Mario San Román (TV Azteca).

07. José Ramos y Jimmy Arteaga (Wapa TV Puerto Rico).

04. Manuel Fraiz Grijalba (Venevision), Alberto Marangón (UNITEL Bolivia) Carlos Novaro (Montecarlo Uruguay) and Luis Villanueva (SOMOS Distribution).

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08. Jesica Stescobich, Axel Kuschevatzky,

Tomás Yankelevich, Jorge Lapsenson, Luis Velo, Fernando Varela, Michelle Wasserman, Julián Rodriguez Montero and Meca Salado (Telefe) 09. Cecilia Gómez de La Torre (Frecuencia Latina Peru) 10. María José Ramos (RCN Televisión) and Julián Rodríguez (Telefe) 11. Jorge Garro (Teletica Costa Rica)

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12. Goyo Garcia and Hélio Vargas (Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação)

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EXECUTIVES

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ar from being restricted to the UK, British public service broadcaster BBC is growing strong across the Latin American territory. In recent years BBC Worldwide has sealed several strategic deals with major industry stakeholders in Brazil (Mixer), Argentina (GP Media), Mexico (History Channel) and most recently Chile (Mega TV).

Gareth Williams, SVP of content and production for Latin America at BBC Worldwide, outlines the company’s production priorities and suggests that the BBC is open to new partnerships. “Right now, we are concentrating on our partnerships with GP Media in Argentina and Mixer in Brazil. If an opportunity presents itself in the future to form another production alliance that will enhance our Latin American Content & Production business, we will most certainly explore it. However, right now we are focused on creating successful formats with our existing partners,” he tells ttv.

One of these formats is the Chilean version of ‘Make My Body Younger’, a reality show coproduced with GP Media and Calypso TV for Mega TV. “Mega TV is the network that bought the format, while BBC Worldwide, GP Media and Calypso TV are currently working together on the series’ development, cast selection and production,” Williams says.

The local version is called ‘Signos Vitales’ (Vital Signs) and no release date has been set yet.

Source: Two Four Productions

Make my Body Younger Reality Show

Earth Under Water Science

The executive also said that BBC would be interested in producing local versions of ‘Make My Body Younger’ in other Latin American countries, claiming that people from both Latin America and the world can easily relate and identify with this topic. “The series represents a valuable call to attention to all those people who are intensely living their lives at the expense of their health. We cannot say anything about future plans but we expect to have news on the matter soon,” he says.

been implemented seamlessly, yielding excellent results among partners and audiences. “Latin American audiences enjoy reality shows and programming based on competition. We have a wide selection of excellent formats to fulfill that demand,” the executive says. Apart from projects that are currently on their preliminary stages in Brazil, BBC has successfully ventured into other Latin American territories.

SUCCESSFUL CASE STUDIES. The strategy of producing original content locally has

Gareth Williams,

SVP of Content and Production for Latin America at BBC Worldwide BBC Worldwide’s head of content and production for Latin America shared insights on the Chilean version of reality show ‘Make My Body Younger’ and confirmed the company is interested in expanding its production business into other territories by forming strategic alliances with local partners.

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“Local contest and game shows work very well in these markets. Our latest production ‘El Gran Mexicano’, for instance, aired on Mexico’s History Channel and 300,000 viewers voted to choose Benito Juárez -the first indigenous man in history to be elected President in Mexico- as the most popular personality of all times. The series was also an internet hit, with an impressive online coverage and even got to be a Twitter trend through the hashtag #ElGranMexicano for two weekends in a row,” Williams says.

A similar case was ‘El Juego del Bicentenario’ (The Bicentennial Game), a competitive reality format produced in Argentina.

“We have already produced the format in Argentina -for public broadcast TV channel Canal 7- and it proved to be a total hit among Argentine viewers. We hope to produce this format in other countries in the region,” he says.

The executive also highlighted BBC’s current and future strategy for the continent, noting that the UK government’s recent budget cuts do not directly affect BBC Worldwide.

“Our strategy is to transform BBC’s extensive catalog -including awarded formats with great critical reviews- into major local shows for Latin American audiences. We also seek to build strong alliances with broadcasters and key producers in the region,” he concludes. ttv

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Undercover Boss

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Mafiosa

(Thriller – 32 x 52’) Sandra Paoli, a young lawyer in Bastia, Corsica, has been in charge of the Paoli Clan and their empire since her father’s death. Her brother Jean-Michel accepts to take second place, at least for the time being. Taking control of a group of men who try to break her or even kill her, from within her own family as well as outside, is a task she succeeds in but not without sacrifices. Soon a war breaks out between brother and the sister. The men choose their side; the clan is divided; Both Jean-Michel and Sandra lose their respective partners.

Tony’s Revenge

(Drama – 8 x 52’)

Dive into the heart of great French banditism, from the 50s until today, following Tony’s quest for truth and desire for vengeance.

The Sparrowhawk

(Family Adventure – 6 x 52’)

Dive into the ‘The Sparrowhawk’s’ adventurous world, based upon the famous comic strips L’Epervier.”

Desperate Parents

(Family Comedy – 34 x 52’)

Eight new episodes just as laughter-packed as the first three seasons. Meet up once again with the Lepic and Bouley families and their wacky everyday lives. A close portrait ofmodern couples.

Being a parent isn’t an easy job!

Love In Paris

(Adventure – 26 x 45’) Years have gone by since Helen and The Boys. Nicolas is a photographer living on a barge moored alongside the Seine. Bénédicte and José manage a restaurant on Ile de La Jatte. After Johanna’s departure for Texas, Christian meets up with his all-time friends. He still dreams of becoming a rock star, supported by his young fiancée Angèle. Olga and Bénédicte have become best friends after Olga saved Bénédicte and Jimmy’s daughter’s life. And everyone thinks Jeanne died in a terrible plane crash. Only Nicolas knows what became of Helene… Professional experiences, encounters, separations, reconciliations - the life of this inseparable group of friends still thrives.

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Beyond Scared Straight

(Real Life – 6 x 30’/ 1 x 90’)

Profiles modern day inmate-run juvenile intervention programs in prisons across the U.S., looking at a controversial approach to keeping today’s kids from becoming tomorrow’s convicts.

Seriously Funny Kids

(Entertainment – 20 x 30’)

Hosted by supermodel and supermom Heidi Klum, the series follows Klum as she interacts with children bringing out the hilarious and insightful things they say.

Gettysburg

(Documentary – 1 x 120’) ‘Gettysburg’ strips away the romanticized veneer of the US Civil War and presents it in a new light: a visceral, terrifying experience with everything on the line.

Heavy

(Real Life – 10 x 60’) Twenty-two individuals facing extreme life-threatening health consequences as a result of their obesity experience real life change in the new original series ‘Heavy’. The series follows two participants per episode documenting their incredible transformations during a six month treatment program.

Storage Wars

(Real Life - 10 x 30’)

In this character-driven treasure hunt about storage unit auctions, opportunistic individuals bid on unclaimed properties hoping to strike gold, whether for fast cash or fun.

Stan Lee’s Superhumans

(Real Life - 8 x 60’)

Throughout history, humans have evolved through genetic “mistakes”. This series travels the world in search of people with remarkable physical and mental powers.

Undercover Boss

(Factual Entertainment – Format – 60’) ‘Undercover Boss’ is a new reality series for CBS that follows high level corporate executives as they take the extraordinary step of going undercover in their own companies to ensure that they are fighting fit for the future. The bosses slip anonymously into the lowest level jobs within their companies, get their hands dirty with the rank and file, and find out what their employees really think of them and discover how smoothly their companies are really run.

In the process, these senior executives learn about themselves, the perception of their company and the spirit of their work force.

They discover what needs fixing, who deserves praising and who needs a wakeup call. It’s an experience that transforms the bosses and the people who work for them.

The Cube

(Entertainment – Format – 60’) Welcome to ‘The Cube’ - a groundbreaking format where just seven simple physical and mental challenges stand between you and £250,000. The challenges appear to be simple – but games become fraught with extraordinary pressure and tension when played inside ‘The Cube’. The body, the mysterious master of The Cube shows each contestant that every challenge is possible – but it’s not easy when you are in there, under the spotlight… Tasks include Trajectory, Equilibrium, Shatter, Contact, Memorise – none are simple once inside this high pressure claustrophobic world.

The CUBE is itself a unique character - and an opponent - selecting from a vast range of tasks, the specific seven challenges that lie ahead for each contestant. ‘The Cube’ offers two life-lines - one is to simplify a challenge the other, trial run. Do you have the skill, strength and nerve to keep mind and body focused and beat the cube?

Meet The Parents

(Entertainment – Format -40’) One real life couple, one tough challenge: for a boyfriend to survive the experience as he ‘Meets The Parents’. Unbeknown to the boyfriend, the entire family in the house are actors, and they are going to do their upmost to make his experience as uncomfortable and embarrassing as possible. If the boyfriend sticks around for the entire night, successfully completing every endurance challenge, he will win a luxury holiday for both himself and his girlfriend.

TLV

The Social Leader

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ARTEAR

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The Social Leader

Four 20-somethings move to the big city, each determined to live their dreams. But to get to the top, they have to start from the bottom.

Still Standing

(Game Show - 36 x 45’)

The prime-time game show format offers contestants the chance to win $1 million by out-guessing ten opponents in fast-paced and dramatic trivia battles.

With This Ring

(Factual-Entertainment - 14 x 40’) ‘With this Ring’ delves into the depths of a marriage, exploring issues from in-laws to infidelity. What does it take to make a marriage work?

Danny Hollywood

Some people snap photos along the way. Others write stories.

Some sketch. Eric Ripert cooks. Mix in some good friends and great locations and you’ve got a truly transcendent experience. Eric shows you how to turn a simple meal into a shared adventure.

Left on the Shelf

(Entertainment - 30’ - Weekly Series - HD)

(Para Vestir Santos) (Series – 36 x 60’) The harsh and biting widow Gloria (Blum) suddendly passes away.

Her three spinster daughters, Susi (Toscano), Virgi (Siciliani) and Male (Cid), come to realize that the death of their dreadful mother is absolutely no liberation at all. As if cursed their lives seem to be marked by the fiasco of being unable to connect with the opposite sex… These three beautiful smart and young women, unable to find Mr. Right… have each other to lean on. This intense sitcom boldly confronts frustration and despair in the pursue for something which comes close to happiness.

Be Kind To Me

After 22 years of marriage, Jose and Sonia are having a midlife crisis. They discover that have grown separately as adults, and come to the realization that the person lying next to them is an old stranger. A known stranger that still has a lot to give.

More Than Partners

(Socias) (Series - 39 x 60’)

Legal dramedy based on the lives of three lawyers who decide to become partners and form a law firm. These three women represent common professional women facing whatever life and their profession may throw at them and explores multiple sides of various social issues.

Gypsy Blood

(Soy Gitano) (Telenovelas – 250 x 60’) Some 25 years ago, Jano Amaya lost the love of his life when she married Lazaro Heredia. Jano and Lazaro were best friends they grew up together. However, fate is not set in stone. Now hate and vengeance fuel their lives.

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‘The Social Leader’ tells the story of a political staffer, a man that keeps his dreams alive in a very peculiar way: through the political and social work within a neighborhood. He influences the actions and drives the destinies of the neighbors he represents in the area he has taken control of. The Social Leader is a personal story that portrays the path of frustrations and unfulfilled wishes.

The time-traveling musical drama that hooked audiences for 200 episodes is now available as a format!

One famous coach takes 4 fading celebs and works to turn them back into superstars. But do they have what it takes to reach the top… again?

Tatiana Figueiredo, Director of Sales

(Lifestyle/Food - 23 x 30’ - HD)

(Tratame Bien) (Series – 36 x 60’)

Celebrity Comeback

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(El Puntero) (Series – 36 x 60’)

(Drama - 200 x 35’)

(Celebrity Reality - 32 x 25’)

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(Docu-Reality Series - 31 x 25´)

CABLEready Corporation

Hollywood Dailies

Get your daily roundup of the newest movies in theaters, on DVD, and on-demand. We’ll also have the newest blockbuster trailers and insightful stories highlighting the people who take movies from script to screen.

Quest For Sunken Warships

(History/Travel/Factual - 4 x 60’)

Follow veteran wreck diver and underwater cameraman Dan Crowell and his specialized dive team as they sift through the wreckage that now rests on the bottom of the world’s oceans.

Their focus is to help shed light on some of the most amazing conflicts fought on the ocean’s battlefields.

Rescue Helicopter

(Medicine/Factual/Travel - 48 x 30’ - HD) When emergencies occur at arctic latitudes in Finland, the Finnish Border Guard are often the victims’ only chance of survival. From bringing medical aid to those injured in a car crash, to rescuing a family from a sinking boat, to saving the life of a baby, these medics to do it all.

Inside The Actors Studio

(Entertainment - 54 x 60’ / 10 x 120’ - HD) James Lipton, has created an institution in the interview world, having sat down with more than 180 of the world’s most accomplished artists. Lipton’s studious research and enlightened curiosity has inspired his guests to open up and confess their deepest thoughts about their craft.

Yellow Team

Making House

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Remember When…

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Making House

(Lifestyle Reality Series -13 x 30’)

Yellow Team

(Los Canarios) (120 x 60’) Ana, Flor, Rocky, Luis and Manuel are street warriors. They are always exposed; they live on the mercy of those unknown and temporary companions that are their passengers and in that way, it is not strange, that the stories and conflicts of others get them in their own adventures. The back seat of a taxi cab is a scenario.

This would be the place where all kinds of characters will travel and open the curtain to assist an infinite of histories -criminal, passionate, dramatic, of suspense, etc.-, all with a development and a resolution taken to comedy.

The Witch

Love and marriage and drywall dust - all under one roof. After 10 years of marriage, 3 kids and 10 houses later, Jenn and Chad are finally ready to put down roots. This interior designer and her contractor husband are gutting their forever house while living out of a cramped apartment – all in time for baby number 4! From demolition to drywall, pot lights to paint, fabrics and furniture, Jenn and Chad will pool their talents to create a family-friendly yet stunning home, or kill each other in the process. Will they survive the reno, make big, life-long choices, and still make it to ballet and birthday parties? ‘Making House’ is a personal story that will expose what really happens to a family when they battle drywall and dust in an attempt to create their dream home.

Artzooka!

Remember When…

(Series – 216 x 70’)

After several years of success and having been awarded numerous prizes worldwide, ‘Remember When…’ has now reached its twelfth series. The irruption of television set in the life of a Spanish family in the en of the sixties; the passion which the radio series “Ama Rosa” stirred up; the Elena Francis pieces of advice; the “Singer” sewing machine; the first signs of freedom after 40 years of dictatorship; the success of the song “La, La, La” in the Eurovision Festival and the arrival of the car Seat 600, are some of the meeting points with collective memory of three Spanish citizens generations.

Love in Difficult Times

(La Bruja) (25 x 60’)

(Childrn’s Art Series - 52 x 30’)

(Series – 1466 x 45’)

Politics, witchcraft and drugs are what drive the story of Amanda, a town teacher that discovers that her powers as a witch will gain her access to places she never imagined she could be. Amanda will then take advantage of her “special” influences to acquire power and change the course of politics in a country.

A half hour series blending live action and animation to show kids that art is everywhere and that there is an artist in each one of them! Targeting kids 6 - 9, ‘Artzooka!’ provides audiences with traditional techniques in unconventional ways and teaches children to draw outside the lines and create their own masterpieces. The works created represent a broad spectrum of art including digital movies, silk-screened t-shirts and lamps made from oranges?!

Original productions customized to suit your market are also available. What will you Artzooka! today? Localized versions available.

‘Love in difficult times’ takes us straight to the years of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. This is a daily series starring a great cast that combines young actors with some of the biggest names in Spanish acting. Painstaking, rigorous documentation went into this series, setting a new standard for the quality one expects from TVE fi¬ction. Internationally awarded series.

Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas

Imanol Arias and Juan Echanove, two prestigious actors and friends for many years, discover the scenery and people in a country brought together by what we eat and drink. They go into the land of Spain to investigate gastronomy and scenery, to nd diversity in our common roots. Each program’s goal is to seek out autochthonous products, uncovering the excellence with which they are produced in our country and, above all, to get to know the people behind each one of them. Travel, eat and enjoy life while re-discovering autochthonous products that are being lost.

Love and Fear

(Amar y Temer) (90 x 60’) (Coproduction Caracol and Sony) When Alicia Aragon Benitez stages her suicide to escape from her husband, Pascual Ordoñez, the town’s conservative leader and head of the depraved secret “Chulavita” police, she travels to Bogota pretending to be a man. Once there, as Alberto Martinez, she enrolls in law school, becomes part of the feminine movement and finds true love with Simon Oviedo, a boxer who accidentally killed his best friend and had given up boxing until he meets his friend, Alberto, and falls in love with Magdalena, never suspecting that they are both really Alicia. But all goes sour when Pascual Ordoñez discovers his wife is still alive.

The English Teacher

(Family Movie - 1 x 90’)

December, 1900. Miss Heathwood’s Boadrding School for Girls.

What does Mandie’s teacher have against Christmas and who is causing strange noises in the forbidden attic? Mandie wants answers, but seeking them lands her in constant trouble and may ruin her Christmas. Based on the “Mandie” books by Lois Gladys Leppard. Over 7 million copies in print.

Modra

(La Teacher de Inglés) (Telenovela - 110 x 60’)

(Drama – 80’)

When his wife leaves him for a wealthy American, Kike decides to put everything into his company and begins looking for new businesses in the United Sates. To do so, he reaches out to his cousin Luis Fernando, who lives in Miami, and to Pili, the beautiful English teacher with whom he falls in love instantly. What Kike doesn’t know is that Pili has a boyfriend, and Luis Fernando, in trouble with the mob, has hired his lover to help him take over the company. After losing everything, Kike will have to start from scratch in order to compete for business in the United States.

Lina is 17 years old and lives in Toronto with her mother. For one week during the summer holidays she plans to visit her extended family in Modra, a small town in Slovakia. When Lina is dumped by her boyfriend she invites Leco instead, a cute boy from school. Not long after arriving in Modra, Lina and Leco discover they have little in common. To make matters worse, Lina’s family assumes that a romance is afoot. So far from home, they are forced to confront one another leading to an explosion of repressed desire and confusion. Featuring performances by newcomers Hallie Switzer and Alexander Gammal, ‘Modra’ is a journey into the heightened emotional chaos of two teenagers, a time when adulthood has not yet arrived, but childhood seems to have already long vanished.

A Country Worth Eating

(Documentary – 13 x 50’ – HD)

April 14th. The Republic

(Series – 13 x 70’)

Spring 1931. The people of Madrid have massively risen to celebrate the proclamation of the Second Republic. The capital is bustling with the changes and is living a time of unseen freedom.

But, while some celebrate the change others prepare to fight.

In the dawning of this reality ‘April 14th The Republic’ is born, a new story about the rescue of the spirit of “La Señora” bringing the spectator closer to an impossible love story conditioned by an era. A fascinating time full of stories that take place in a key historical period of Spain’s history covering the first part of the first two years of the new Government until winter 1933, when the conservative parties take over the republican government.

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Diggers

Hirokin

Secret Story

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Secret Story

Hirokin

Diggers

(60 x 30’)

Ever since 14-year old Jonathan was left by his mom at a foster home, more than a decade ago, all he longs for is the moment of her return. When he hears of the magical, mysterious Wishing Stone that’s been discovered at the basement of the guarded museum across the street, he decides to secretly dig a tunnel from the foster home to the museum in order to get to the stone that would, so he believes, reunite him with his mother.

First Love

(150 x 4’)

‘First Love’ – an interactive project of 150 short movies, shot in full HD, which document real love stories of youngsters, aged 16-20.

‘First Love’ is a fascinating and moving mosaic of lives and loves of adolescents, relevant to young people wherever they are. The successful project generated millions of views on web, mobile and iPhone and enjoyed extensive media interest and coverage.

Checked in N.Y New York City is undoubtedly the most electrifying place on earth.

Checked in N.Y, a pioneering docu-reality format, tells the stories of different people through the locations that marked their lives in the city. Inspired by the new LBS (Location Based Services) technology, this multi-platform format explores people’s journeys in the Big Apple, with stories told via the locations most significant to our heroes, each place with its own unique story. Throughout the 40 episodes we encounter journeys filled with joy and pain, success and failure, loneliness and love

Simon

(Reality Show) ‘Simon’ is a one-of-a-kind, fresh & innovative reality show based on trendy street games. Three groups of contestants are sent into the night with a list of 99 tasks each, competing with the other groups on the number of tasks they will accomplish before dawn.

Simon – the eccentric and formidable host, rules the night and what Simon says – the contestants must do.

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(Action)

Hirokin, a reluctant warrior with a dark past, must fulfill his destiny when forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family and fighting for the freedom of a people long abused.

Arachnoquake

(Sci-Fi Disaster)

After earthquakes ravage a small town, dozens of locals fall victim to a previously unknown species of deadly albino spiders. Despite their best efforts, spiders swarm out of the earthquake opened fissures and infest the town.

Ice Comets

(Sci-Fi Disaster)

A mysterious explosion in space sends ice comets plummeting toward Earth and according to mythology will bring about the end of the world.

Ghostquake

(Reality Entertainment) A group of contestants, each of them with their own dramatic secret, live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world. Their every move is caught on camera, but this is no ordinary reality show. The contestant’s mission is to keep their secret from all other housemates. Hiding from detection will not be easy as each and every contestant will be plotting to reveal the other’s unknown truths. Each player enters ‘Secret Story’ with a pot of cash- and if their facade is revealed they can loose the lot.

The house itself is full of mystery and packed with undisclosed rooms and surprises. Clues will be scattered throughout the house and it’s up to the players to use their intuition to discover each other’s hidden truths. But keeping their hoax from fellow contestants is only half the challenge. In order to win Secret Story they must avoid the weekly public vote and eviction from the house. As tensions grow and passions begin to stir, contestants find that their secret and their civility becomes harder and harder to maintain. After weeks of deliberation and suspense, the remaining housemate who has survived each week’s public vote is crowned the winner.

My Kitchen Rules

(Sci-Fi Disaster)

(Lifestyle)

When an earthquake opens a time capsule, the spirits of five vengeful ghosts are unleashed and it takes the ultimate sacrifice to make them disappear for good.

Teams from all walks of life battle it out to see who can create the best instant restaurant in their own homes. The knives are out as home-cooks battle it out in ‘My Kitchen Rules’. It’s plate against plate, as five teams-of-two attempt to out-dine and outwine each other to see whose kitchen rules. In each episode the cooking teams take turns to transform an ordinary home into an instant restaurant complete with theme and table decorations for a pressure cooker night, working around the clock to deliver a winning dining experience. They’ll be serving up a three-course menu designed to impress not only their fellow contestants but also the show’s esteemed judges. At the end of each night, the teams and judges mark the host’s dinner event separately to give them a total score out of 100. There’ll be thrills and spills as they battle the clock and their nerves to plate up on time.

The best teams will move forward to the finals in which they’ll compete in a custom-designed restaurant space. Guest judges and exciting challenges are in store as the teams fight it out for the My Kitchen Rules crown and a major cash prize. Season two in Australia averaged a market share of 34.4% across all episodes when it aired on Seven Network Australia in 2011 with the finale episode achieving an outstanding 52% market share.My Kitchen Rules is a Seven Network Australia production.

Fear Island

(Horror – 95’)

Trapped on a secluded island, five friends become prey to a mysterious killer seeking revenge.

Hell on Wheels

Against the Ropes

1001 Nights

Endemol Worldwide Distribution

Frecuencia Latina International

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James Braham, Sales Director, Germany & Eastern Europe, Greece, Cyprus, Malta & Turkey Iryna Chernyak, Sales Director, Russia, CIS, Balkan & Baltics

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Izzet Pinto, CEO Catherine Stryker, Head of Sales Brianne Bonney, Sales Executive

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Against the Ropes

(Telenovela HD - Drama - 60 x 60’)

Hell on Wheels

(Drama – 10 x 60’)

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate soldier (Anson Mount) who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to ‘Hell on Wheels’, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time. The series examines the railroad’s institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during reconstruction. Over time, ‘Hell on Wheels’ chronicles this potent turning point in America’s history, and how uncivilized the business of civilization can be.

Happily Divorced

(Drama – 10 x 60’)

Stars Fran Drescher (‘The Nanny’), John Michael Higgins (‘Best in Show’), Tichina Arnold (‘Everybody Hates Chris’) and Rita Moreno (‘West Side Story’). Based on the real life of ‘Fran Drescher’ this series centres around Los Angeles florist Fran (Drescher) as she re-enters the dating world after finding out her realtor husband of 18 years is gay.

Endgame

(Drama – 13 x 60’) An original drama series centring around a brilliant chess master.

Using the skills that made him chess champion of the world, Arkady Balagan solves the crimes that mystify others. Traumatised by the murder of his fiancée, Balagan has become a prisoner in his luxury Vancouver hotel. To pay his bill, Balagan starts solving mysteries – using an unlikely band of hotel employees and chess fanatics to do his legwork. Brilliant and charismatic, the Russian-born Balagan is able to envision his unknown opponent’s motives and moves. He imagines events, interviews the living and the dead, and runs conflicting scenarios – all in his head as he solves crimes that baffle the police. In Endgame, we see genius at work.

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Produced by On TV (Claudio Villarruel & Bernarda Llorente) Directed by Alejandro Maci (‘LaLola’ & ‘Successful the Pells’). The story of a young boxer from a small town who decides to take destiny in his hands when his manager wants to force him to lose a fight which he could win, and he refuses to do it. Inexorably, that decision changes his life forever. He runs to the big city where far away from his town and family he has to face new dangers.

There he would find a very different destiny and he meets Ana with whom he starts an incontrollable passion.

The Way I Love You

(Romantic Comedy HD - 16 x 60’) (Format & Program) Written by the Argentinean Adriana Lorenzon, author of ‘Montecristo’, ‘Los Roldán’, ‘El Capo’ and ‘The Love has Face of Woman’, directed by Eduardo Ripari (‘Successful the Pells’ & ‘Montecristo’) produced by Saeta Channel 10 from Uruguay. The story of a young woman who returns from Spain for a short visit but ends up extending her stay in her native town. A love triangle, a romantic comedy and a contemporary urban story. Second season on production.

The Successful Gome$

(Telenovela - Romantic Comedy - 150 x 60’) Peruvian version of the successful Argentinean telenovela ‘The Successful Pells’. The story of a successful couple of TV hosts. He falls into a coma, and the CEO of the channel hires an underground actor, extremely similar to him, to replace him. Once in his role, the actor discovers that the life of this couple is in fact a lie. In reality she maintains a loving relation with a hidden lover and he has a homosexual relation. Nevertheless Gonzalo falls in love with Sol and he tries to build a true relationship with the love of his life.

The Fatty’s

(Soap Opera – Romantic Comedy - 120 x 60’) (Format & Program) The telenovela that has been sold to more than 20 territories around the world. Tender romantic comedy that tells the story of a smart, charming and tender girl, whose body has always been a burden. As a modern Cinderella, she will prove that beauty is only skin deep and that morality and true feelings are what matter most when in the pursuit of dreams and spiritual fulfillment.

1001 Nights (Series - 180 x 60’)

The hit series continues to sweep across Central and Eastern Europe, winning over new audiences and scoring massive ratings success. Audiences respond enthusiastically to the tale of Sehrazat, a talented architect and a single mother, who is struggling to raise money to pay for her son’s medical treatment. Taking advantage of her situation, her boss Onur makes a proposal that catches her between morality and necessity. Eventually, love blossoms between them, but it is always overshadowed by the dark secret about the beginnings of their relationship.

Magnificent Century

(Series - 120 x 60’)

Sultan Suleiman received news of his succession to the throne in 1520. Unaware that he would be ruling a reign beyond his dreams, he left behind his palace in Manisa as he moved to Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Meanwhile, an Ottoman ship set sail from Crimea, bringing female slaves as gifts for the Ottoman palace. Aboard was Alexandra, a young girl who had been taken from her family.

She had no idea that she would become Hurrem, wife of Sultan Suleiman and mother of princes, ruling the empire with him through bloodshed and intrigue. As Sultan Suleiman conquered the world, his great passion for Hurrem would come with a high price. For Hurrem, the game of power was bloody and ruthless...

The Island

(Series - 26 x 60’)

Alexis is a young woman in search of answers to her past. When she leaves London to visit Plaka in Eastern Crete, she discovers that three generations of women from her family were haunted by their connection to the island of Spinalonga. In Greece, Alexis begins to discover why her mother, Sophia, never made peace with her family secrets and started life anew, far from the land that caused her so much pain.

Dear Enemy

(Series - 201 x 60’)

One day your best friend can become your enemy...Raised together in an orphanage, Elpida and Xenia were best friends.

But when Xenia discovers Elpida’s biological grandmother is a famous millionaire, she steals Elpida’s identity to cash in on the family’s empire. As if stealing her friend’s identity is not enough, Xenia seems determined to steal her boyfriend as well. And that’s how Elpida’s former best friend has become her most dangerous rival...

Peleles

Power Rangers Samurai

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Beyond the Lake

MarVista Entertainment

Mediaset Distribution

12519 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90066 Tel.: 1-310-737-0950 Fax: 1-310-737-9115 Email: info@marvista.net Website: www.marvista.net Stand: Sofitel Hotel #125

Via Aurelia Antica 422, 00165, Rome, Italy Tel.: +39 06 66390 566 Fax: +39 06 66390 650 E-mail: internationalsales@mediaset.it Website: www.mediasetdistribution.com Stand: 324

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Laura Hoffman, Director of Sales and Contract Administration

Executives Attending

Clare Mc Ardle, International Sales Manager Manuela Caputi, International Sales Manager

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Peleles

(Telenovela - 100 x 55’) (In Production) After being laid off from their job, a group of men decide to take revenge on their former employer by stealing merchandise that’s worth lots of money. Everything goes wrong at first but they manage to succeed with their plan. After discovering they have a taste for felony, these men - each with a special skill; decide to continue with these robberies. They will get into hilarious situations as they hide their reality from their families and faced the impending danger of a the people who they’ve wronged including a dangerous and yet colorful mob boss.

First Lady

(Telenovela - 100 x 55’) This is the story of Sabina Astudillo, a young and poor woman who dreams of becoming rich and to have everything her heart’s desires: power, luxury, and Money. Tired of being poor, Sabina moves to the capital city and decides to meet Leonardo Santander, one of the country’s presidential candidates. Sabina with the help of her allies: Domingo and Anibal, she manages to enter into Leonardo’s and that of his family’s. At the same time, Sabina meets Mariano and fells deeply in love with him but she realizes if she wants to achieve her goals some sacrifices need to be made and she breaks up with him and begins to concentrate on her objectives. Sabina lies, manipulates, cheats, and doesn’t even care whom she has to hurt in order for her to become the ‘First Lady’.

Life after Life

(12 x 55 minutes – Season I) (Series) More than 30,000 people in the world get transplants in order to get a second chance to live again. This heartwarming series takes place in the prestigious Nataniel Cox Hospital where a group of discipline doctors, surgeons, technicians, lawyers, and prosecutors must work together and where their ethics and emotions will be put to the test as they faced various challenges and cases that will come across their path.

Temptation of Love

(Telenovela - 26 x 45’)

Power Rangers Samurai

Beyond the Lake

(Drama Series – 12 x 50’)

(Children/Action - 700 x 30´ + 40 x 30´) High-end interior designer Priscilla Hall and her assistant Wendy vie for the attentions of Priscilla’s socialite boyfriend while decorating his home for the holidays.

Predator X

(Thriller/Creature - 1 x 90) Laura LeCrois must save her boat tour from a recently cloned prehistoric alligator known as the “T-Rex of the ocean” that has been terrorizing the Louisiana swamp where she grew up.

Super Eruption

(Disaster - 1 x 90)

When a massive volcano begins to blow under Yellowstone National Park, it’s up to park ranger Charlie Young and volcanologist Kate Brooks to stop it before it destroys the world.

Crash Site: A Family in Danger

The mysteries of today are linked to those of many years before and perhaps only the lake holds the key.

Follow your Dreams

(Family Series – 8 x 100’)

These young performing artists want to participate in a popular talent show to become famous and to have their talent recognized; they want to win and reach the height of success.

Beyond Fashion

(Lifestyle – Season 1 – 10 x 50’ / Season 2 – 12 x 30’) The programme aims to be a point of reference for every selfrespecting fashion victim. But that is not all: thanks to its numerous investigations over the years, Beyond Fashion has become a privileged viewpoint in the world of TV for understanding the trends, events and what’s new in fashion, design, cars, art and architecture.

Mr. Mom

(Thriller - 1 x 90)

(Scripted Format – Sitcom – 12 x 50’ or 6 x 100’ - 3 Seasons)

The head of a realty company struggles to balance his family and work life when an accident leaves him stranded in the wilderness, fighting for survival.

Single fathers and modern family situations have now a sitcom they can relate to.

Option: Poland and Turkey.

The Mall

(Scripted Format – Soap – 230 x 30’ – 10 Seasons) A fashionable shopping mall in Italy with an endless variety of stores, where you can breathe an atmosphere created by passion, hard work, family ties and an intricate web of relationships. The soap follows the lives of the various families who work in the mall.

Adaptation : Russia - Option: Poland and Turkey.

This is the story of Dr. Adam Jamil and his five sons, each with distinctive personalities and lifestyles, which unfolds into a tussle between love and loyalty. Dr. Adam has educated his son in the importance of strong family ties and loyalty and this is put to the test when he decides to play matchmaker for his son Jimmy, who has suffered from a terrible treason. He decides to introduce Maya to his son Jimmy, but Maya gets the wrong idea and thinks that Dr. Adam is in love with her. However, Maya decides to get to know Jimmy and she begins to like him. However, Dr. Adam starts to feel attracted to Maya but struggles whether to give in to temptation and ignore his teachings of family ties and loyalty or simply let Jimmy and Maya be happy.

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Dinofroz

Pop Corn TV

Samson and Delilah

Mondo TV

Novavision-Meg

Record TV Network

Via Brenta, 11 – 00198 Rome, Italy Tel.: +39 06 86323293 Fax: +39 06 86209836 E-mail: mondotv@mondotv.it Website: www.mondotv.it Suite: 112

12, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris Tel.: +33 (0) 1 75 47 80 70 Fax: +33 (0) 1 75 47 80 74 E-Mail: sales@novavision.fr Website: www.novavision.fr Booth: 220

Rua do Bosque, 1449 - Barra Funda. São Paulo - SP, Brasil. 01136-001 Tel.: + 55 11 3300-4022 Fax: + 55 11 3300-5200 E-mail: emendes@sp.rederecord.com.br Web: www.recordtvnetwork.com

Executives Attending

Executives Attending

Delmar Andrade, International Sales Director Edson Mendes, International Sales Manager

Alessandro Venturi, Sales Manager Theo Kouroglou, Sales Manager

Executives Attending

François Xavier Poirer, CEO Lucy Le Gruiec, Commercial Executive

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Samson and Delilah Dinofroz

(Animation Full HD -26 x 26’) Four childhood buddies find a way of accessing a parallel time dimension, where they find themselves as dinosaurs, in the middle of a never-ending war with dragons! Series Premise: Tom, Eric, John and Bob are four teenage friends. They’re 12 years old and are just regular kids at school. Regular for everyone else, but they share something in common that no one knows about. Something that makes their kid’s life very exciting and makes them not-soregular kids… It all began a lazy summer afternoon, when Tom was bored at home because this year, everyone had gone away on vacation except him and his buddies. A twist of fate had made this situation happen… So that afternoon, Tom and his buddies found a weird BOARDGAME. Tom had no memories playing this game when he was younger, and neither did the others. By rolling the dice on the BOARDGAME, what our buddies didn’t know is that they opened up a gate between the present and the past, and this opened a breach in the time dimension. That was thebeginning of an exciting adventure… Infact in the other time dimension, they were DINOSAURS !! They were able to talk, think and interact with the other dinosaurs - the only difference being their body, a lot more massive and impressive than their human bodies ! They had a belt around their heavy dinosaur-neck, and on this belt was a VIAL in which floats a piece of rock, ROCKFROZ. They’ll soon discover that this ROCKFROZ is the link between earth and the world of the dinosaurs, in the past… This BOARDGAME is also as a reminder for them of what’s happening in the world of DINOSAURS. Everytime the kids are on Earth and minding their own business, something can happen with the BOARDGAME warning to jump into action to save the dinosaurs from the Evil Clutches of NECERON – the king of the DRAGONS. Who said holidays at home were boring? The goal of our time travellers is clear: they have to protect the ROCKFROZ from the DRAGONS, as NECERON will stop it at nothing to get his hands on the ROCKFROZ…

Puppy in My Pocket

(Animation Full HD - 52 x 13’)

In Pocketville there’s a beautiful kitty princess named Ava who matches new friends, children and pets. One day, by the doing of her envious twin sister Eva, she is accidentally sent to the ‘real world’ while our protagonist, Kate, is sent to Pocketville in her place. In princess Ava’s absence, Kate, together with her recently matched pet friend Magic, will make sure that Ava’s duties of matching children and pets continue to be conducted while Eva will try everything she can to stop them so that she can become the new princess!

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Pop Corn TV

The show compiles the very best of fully edited Candid Camera Clips, with the famous and hilarious ZéZé clips, Special Junior gags, and also crazy “Mad Boys” gags. Crazy Hidden Camera is a wide selection for the whole family.

Samson is a courageous man, strong, fearless, an Hebrew who fights many armies of his people enemies, and savage beasts; also, he keeps to himself the mysterious secret of his strength. He was born as the promise of being the rescuer of his people who were oppressed and persecuted. Delilah hears about the triumph of Samson, she is a Philistine woman who has an exuberant beauty and is extremely ambitious. She was chosen by Inarus, prince of Gaza to be another of his courtesans in palace. In search of power, Delilah calls attention for being pretty and soon becomes the favorite among all the courtesans. Samson is unbeatable, wins many battles and brief anger its main enemy, the Philistine. The prince Inarus got infuriated as much as the Hebrew warrior’s victory on his army - so well armed and prepared – that the prince allows Delilah to persuade Samson in order to discover the secret of his strength. Thus, the stories of Samson and Delilah intersect. Strength and beauty come together in a game of greed, seduction and power.

Hilarious Home Video

Esther, the Queen

(Light Entertainment – 400 x 26’) This is Novavision’s show featuring family of Candid Camera Gags as well as Hilarious Home Video clips, bloopers and comedy sketches. A show for the whole family! 300 episodes have been produced in 2010 and 100 more will be in 2011. This show remains with NO dialogue.

Crazy Hidden Camera

(Light Entertainment - 130 x 26’)

(Light Entertainment – 60 x 26’)

Very funny home video clips, compiled in a sweet and hilarious non-dialogue show, meant for family entertainment. Also available as fully edited clips of Home videos.

QUIzZz

(Game Format - 60 x 40’) The ‘QUIzZz’ is a funny short, non dialogue family game. Let’s guess what’s behind the mime and play! Great tool to keep the audience on (during Commercials) and get extra revenues! (The format can be localized).

Let’s Gag and Laugh

(Game format – 40 x 45’)

Targeted to a family oriented audience, the aim of the game is to surprise guessing people’s behavior when trapped by universal gags and to have fun with the candidates miming the answers.

The drama takes place in Persian Empire, where King Ahasuerus called all the virgins of the kingdom so he could choose a new queen for him. When he meets Esther, King Ahasuerus falls in love with her immediately, without knowing the truth about her origin. Esther surrenders to the love of the king and reveals her true feelings for him. They get married and she is crowned queen of the whole Persian Empire. However, not everything is the plot is romance. Prejudice, jealousy and many traps are armed by Haman, the prime minister who convinces the king to exterminate the Jews. When she finds out such brutality to his people, Esther finds courage to tell the King about his Jewish origin and she begs him to have pity and don’t take off the Jews’ life. This is the story of a modest Jewish girl who becomes a Queen and saves the lives of her people. Courage, determination and Esther’s faith are important references in the Jewish culture and she is one of the most remarkable women throughout History.

Another Power The first scenes of the telenovela Another Power were recorded at Palermo and Tonnara di Scopellotwo cities in Italy. One of the most impressive scenes was the terrible explosion of a car where were Tony Castellamare’swife and their twin daughters; after he arrives at the crime scene, he testified the explosion causing the death of his family. Tony knows that the explosion was an attack to take his life because he is involved with the mafia, but at first even he doesn’t know why they want to kill him. Thereat, Tony goes to Brazil to revenge the murder of his family. Not only tragedies and crimes the plot of this telenovela brings us. Tony meets the journalist Ligia, who wants to write a story about his life and they fall in love. However, Ligia lives an ethical crisis for falling in love with a man who supposedly is a criminal. The novel Another Power has in its plot some involving themes, mysteries, mafia, revenge, drug dealing, ambition and much passion.

Isenhart

The One

My Heart Beats for Lola Volcan

SevenOne International

Telefe International

Telemundo Internacional

Medienallee 7 85774 Unterfoehring, Germany Tel.: +49 89 9507 2320 Fax: +49 89 9507 2321 E-mail: sales@71int.com Website: www.71int.com Suite: 224

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2745 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Coral Gables FL 33134, USA Tel.: (305) 774-0033 Fax: (305) 774-7372 E-mail: alejandra.recasens@nbcuni.com Webiste: www.telemundointernacional.com Suite: 121

Executives Attending

Melissa Pillow, Sales Director Central & Eastern Europe Elena Aguirre, Sales and Traffic Coordinator

Executives Attending

Jens Richter, Managing Director Axel Boehm, Regional Sales Director / International Fiction Acquisitions Shakira Hoffmann, Junior Sales Managers

Diana Coifman, International Business Senior Executive Europe & Brazil - Programming, Formats & Production Services

The first profiler tracking down serial killers in the Middle Ages!

Zone City

(Detective Series - 52 x 45’) Varying from the serial killer looking for revenge, a sexual crime in a hotel to the murder of African refugees: ‘Zone City’ is more than just another cop series and a huge rating success in Belgium.

The Last Cop

(Detective Series - 26 x 45’) Everything has changed. Except him… In the late 1980s young cop Mick Brisgau is seriously injured during a mission and ends up in a permanent coma. 20 years later, completely out of the blue, he suddenly wakes up – in a different world. The new prime-time ratings hit series on Sat.1!

You Deserve It

(Game Show, Format)

The game show with a difference: in Dick de Rijk’s new game show, the contestant is not playing for himself… but for someone else, someone deserving it.

My Man Can

(Game Show- 90’)

The game show with a difference: in ‘My Man Can’ 4 women gamble with the abilities their partners possess – and put the men’s courage and skills to the test.

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Melissa Pillow, Sales Director Central & Eastern Europe

Diana Coifman, International Business Senior Executive Europe & Brazil Programming, Formats & Production Services

Jens Richter, Managing Director

Isenhart

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The One

My Heart Beats for Lola Volcan

(Telenovela - Approx. 150 x 1 60’)

(Telenovela - 130 x 60’)

‘The One’ is starred by successful ‘Montecristo’ couple, Pablo Echarri and Paola Krum. It is an idea by Adriana Lorenzon, who is also the screenwriter. Starred by acclaimed Argentine movie and TV artists such as Pablo Echarri, Leticia Bredice, and Lito Cruz, ‘The One’ tells the story of Andrés (Pablo Echarri) an arrogant and ambitious lawyer who, after winning a trial, is awarded a trip to Spain which will change his life forever. He undertakes a merciless competition with the rest of his colleagues to get to be The One as partner in the firm where he works. Mariana, an idealist lawyer to whom he will feel an irresistible attraction is among them. They will inevitably end up falling in love. Each character of ‘The One’ represents a “capital sin”. Besides, it is not only a love story. There are several different subplots and very complex issues are dealt with, such as autism, insanity (through one of the main characters) and another current topic with deep social undertones: the rights of ownership of aboriginal lands.

The love Lola and Andres have for one another knows no boundaries. Hopeful with the idea of loving each other for eternity, they decide to elope to Las Vegas, confronting Andres’ family, who has always opposed their relationship. Little did they know that their decisions would bring about the greatest misfortune of their lives. Lola, in an act of rebellion against her aunt Chabela and her mother Soledad, who also oppose their love, escapes one night and gets a salamander tattooed on her back. The tattoo is a symbol of her love for Andres, who has called her “my salamander” since they met. Marcelo Santacruz, Andres’ father, puts him back in the military school from which he escaped, making sure that this time Andres is watched extra closely. As if this was not enough, Marcelo also schemes to lock Lola in jail – where she will remain for more than five years. During this time of imprisonment, Lola will learn to survive through her spiritual strength, a strength she learned since childhood from her aunt Chabela. She will keep her hope to reunite with Andres alive, not knowing that destiny has other plans for her. Once out of jail, Lola will confront a series of misfortunes that will change her whole existence. Her aunt Chabela dies and her mother suffers with severe depression and needs to be admitted into a psychiatric hospital. Andres, her only remaining life support, is about to marry Debora, his eternal admirer, who hates Lola since they were little girls. Desperate, feeling deceived and without means, Lola decides to accept a marriage proposal from a family acquaintance who acts as her protector. Andres will insist on winning Lola over once again, but it will seem that this couple will never be able to make it so their paths unite… nor fully separate. Out of spite, Lola rejects Andres and marries four times, although none of her husbands will be suitable or lasting, since all will die unexpectedly, not long after saying “I do.” Lola considers Andres her best friend, her first love, and the only man she’s given everything to, but her pride and determination to not depend on others push her to fight against what her heart really wants, causing this love to appear nearly impossible.

A Year to Remember

(Romantic Comedy - Approx. 150 x 60’) The story of ‘Year to Remember’ revolves around a woman who is unhappily married. After a miracle, she will be able to go back in time one year, and have the opportunity to do things differently.

She is unable to understand what is going on, trapped between confusion and disbelief, without understanding if what she is going through is a blessing or a nightmare. She will relive her past year and she will discover that things are not always what they seem, and she will soon realize that fate sometimes is unavoidable, no matter what you do.

Superclumsy

(Children’s/Teen Comedy (52 x 30’ - 2 seasons) Poli Truper is a teenage super heroine who dreams about 3 things: To be a singer, to make his neighbor Felix fall in love with her and to save the world. The problem is that Poli only sings well in her dreams and each time she sees Felix, she forgets about the world and starts to levitate. Worse still, when she uses her super powers, for some reason or other, instead of saving the world, Poli ends up breaking everything. Filo her younger brother, Mía, her best friend and Chin, her nanny and trainer will do the best to help her and guide her, trying to cover all the mess Poli will leave behind.

Rafaela

Emperatriz

Televisa Internacional

The Black Widow

TV Azteca

c/ Ayala no. 27, 4º, Dcha., Madrid 28001, Spain Tel.: +34 (91) 700 0463 Fax: +34 (91) 700 0464 E-mail:info@televisainternacional.tv Website: www.televisainternacional.tv Suite: 318

Executives Attending

Periférico Sur 4121 Tel.: +52 555 251 1410 Fax: +52 555 251 1409 E-mail: sales@comarex.tv Website: www.comarex.tv Stand: 225

Executives Attending

Adela Velasco, Sales Europe & Africa

Fernando Pérez Gavilán, VP of Televisa Internacional Carlos Castro, General Director of Sales Ricardo Ehrsam, General Director Europe and Asia Claudia Sahab, Director for Europe Pedro Font, General Director of Sales Asia, Africa and Middle East Manola Martín, Business Manager Eastern Europe and Nordic Region Silvia García, Director of Sales Asia, Africa and Middle East Cecilia Galeana, Sales Manager in Latin America Hugo Treviño Huerta, Director de Eventos

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Fernando Pérez Gavilán, VP of Televisa Internacional

Venevision International

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(Traditional - 150 x 60’) Rafaela is a young woman who comes from an underprivileged family and managed with great effort to get a Medical Degree.

Just after graduating, she becomes a resident at Dr. Rafael Antúnez´s hospital. Coincidentally, Dr. Antúnez happens to be Rafaela’s father, who once was an irresponsible man and abandoned her mother, Caridad, while she was pregnant with Rafaela.

A Fortunate Family

(Comedy - 150 x 60’)

This is the story of two worlds that collide: the world of the rich and wealthy, and that of the poor. The López family lives in a popular neighborhood in the city, and with a sudden stroke of luck, their lives will change forever. The story begins with bitter disappointment, an act of desperation, a timely rescue, and an incredible reward. Fernanda Peñaloza is the owner of an important cosmetics business and a very wealthy woman, but all her wealth is useless when her doctor tells her that she has an incurable and deadly disease. However, the most painful blow comes when she learns that her nephew Vicente Irabién, her trusted right-hand man in the company, is happily counting the days to her death in order to finally inherit her money and become president of the company. Disappointed and feeling that no one actually cares for her, Fernanda decides to commit suicide. It is then when Pancho López, a modest truck driver who hauls fruit and vegetables, intervenes. He appears on the scene just in time to save Fernanda’s life. Suddenly, the López family is living in a mansion and Pancho is the president of Fernanda’s cosmetics company, knowing nothing about the business. Incredible situations that will make us laugh and cry make up the story; unexpected problems, leaps to fame, strange encounters, dreams and disappointments. All of this, sprinkled with twists of fate, Vicente’s villainous intrigues and the arrows Cupid seems to shoot at random, will cause endless trouble between the two families and everyone around them. A story that everyone will want to watch.

Executives Attending

Daniel Rodríguez, Sales Director for Latin America Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.

Adela Velasco, Sales Europe & Africa

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Daniel Rodríguez, Sales Director for Latin America

Emperatriz

(Drama - 120 x 60’) This is the story of Emperatriz Jurado, a woman who has fallen in love with Armando Mendoza but he has betrayed her and taken her new born daughter. Emperatriz swears to herself that she will take revenge against Armando, get her daughter back and make him pay for all the damage he has done.

Cielo Rojo

Rafaela

121 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 1400 Coral Gables, FL 33134 (USA) Tel.: 305.442.3411 Fax: 305.446.4743 Website: www.venevisioninternational.com Suite: 117

(Drama - 120 x 60’) Alma and Andres were meant for each other, but it seems destiny is intent on keeping them apart. Years after a painful separation their paths cross again and they plan to run away but Alma’s husband Victor prevents her from meeting Andrés who leaves disheartened, convinced that she has chosen her husband over him. When confronted by Victor an alcoholic prone to fits of violence, Alma accidentally kills him in self defense. Overcome by grief and hate, her mother-in-law, Adela, has Alma arrested for murder. A few months later, she gives birth to a baby girl in jail. Knowing full well Andres is the father and not her son, Adela disappears with the baby, which she names Daniela. Meanwhile, Andres marries a former girlfriend, who pretends to be carrying his child when she is really pregnant by another man.

Lucho en Familia

(Comedy / Series - 40 x 60’)

‘Lucho en Familia’ is a comedy which follows the life of a retired wrestler with great family values who has to return to the ring to support his family. Lucho will have to overcome all kind of obstacles to get his family back on their feet.

Bajo el Alma

(Teleseries - 96 x 60’)

‘Bajo el Alma’ is a drama that tells the story of the Cavazos family who has to deal with the troubles of Vitalab, a pharmaceutical laboratory that is their family heritage. Now Diego, will have to fight to get control of his company and to convince Giovanna that he is the love of her life.

When Night Falls

(Suspense/thriller - 20 x 60’)

‘When Night Falls’ is a one-hour thriller series of 24 episodes that explores the world of hidden dangers vibrant in society that come to life when most of us are safely asleep. The series presents stories of those who overstep the limits of daily life as they struggle for survival in an unknown and dangerous world!

The Black Widow

(Telenovela - 120 approx. x 45’) A captivating love story by renowned author Martin Hahn, encompassed in a setting of mystery and suspense, with apparent elements of a police thriller, where passions, revenge and intrigue converge between the credible characters that make up its interesting plot.

Eva Luna

(Telenovela - 120 approx. x 45’) When Eva’s father is killed by a hit-and-run driver, she vows to find the culprit. Her life becomes a nightmare when she starts suspecting the man she loves. But there are sinister forces leading her to believe this lie… and she finds herself involved with the real killer, who’ll do anything to have her for himself.

The Perfect Woman

(Telenovela - 120 approx. x 45’)

This original telenovela tells the story of six totally different women with one thing in common: they all want to be “perfect,” and they’ll do anything to achieve that goal - from extreme dieting to Botox to plastic surgery. A thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking look at today’s obsession with beauty and the quest for eternal youth.

XRC (Xtreme Reality Clips)

(Extreme News Footage – Clips- Library contains approx. 400 hours) ‘XRC’ delivers the most adrenaline-filled news footage coverage available; over 400 hours of high-speed pursuits, destructive crashes, shocking shootouts and cliff-hanging rescues.

Tribulation: The Battle Before the End

(Series Sci-fi/Action – 13 x 60’)

Falco, the police captain, can see the demons that actually motivate murderers to commit their acts. He hides this gift until one day it is revealed to him that the days of the Tribulation have begun and he must decide to fight evil or be destroyed.

See the World

(Series/Travel – 52 x 60’) Visit the most fascinating places on the planet without leaving the comfort of your home.

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Stage

Vision Films

WORLD MEDIA PICTURES

Zodiak Rights

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1525 Lantana Court Weston Florida 33326 Tel.: +1-954-376-6584 Email: sales@worldmediapictures.com Website: www.worldmediapictures.com Suite : 222

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Executives Attending

Juan Antonio Fernández, Vice president

Adam Wright, Executive VP International Sales & Acquisitions

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Executives Attending

Naomi Koh, Vice President of Sales Marta Csizmadia, Sales Executive

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Juan Antonio Fernández, Vice president

Adam Wright, Executive VP International Sales & Acquisitions

Naomi Koh, Vice President of Sales

Amores Como El Nuestro

Restitution

(Thriller)

A true crime writer investigating a murder spree surrounding insurance fraud, uncovers the devastating truth that changes his life and the town forever.

The Last Gamble

(Thriller)

A gambler finds himself living on the edge owing money to everyone which leads him down a desperate path with no way out.

Love’s Kitchen

(Romantic Comedy – 100’) A big city chef gets a new chance at life - and love- when he opens a new restaurant in the countryside.

Hard Times

(Comedy – 90’)

The locals in a small village once known for its famous Holy Well, plan to steal a truckload of Viagra and sell it for survival, but instead fall victim to its side effects.

Night Wolf

(Suspense/Thriller – 90’) A dark creature traps Sarah, her brothers and friends in their isolated countryside home. Can they survive the horror stalking them or is the enemy already amongst them?

Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul

(Documentary – 87’)

Widely acclaimed environmental advocate, photographer, and polar explorer Sebastian Copeland’s dramatic expedition to the North Pole, treks 400+ miles on foot through a magnificent environment that is rapidly vanishing.

Unscripted

(Series - 175 x 30’)

Celebrities candidly tell us their own story in their own words including: Hugh Hefner, Ron Perlman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dloph Lungren, Jane Seymour, and many more.

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(Telenovela - 71 x 60’)

The love story between Fausto (Ismael La Rosa) and Beatriz (Virna Flores), two youngsters living in a neighborhood called “Ciudad Nueva”. Fausto has become a spoiled, impulsive young man, who never thinks twice before acting. Beatriz, on the other hand, belongs to a very conservative family; she understands how important it is to live according to solid principles. Fausto had a tragic childhood, as a result of the relation of his parents with the owner of a ranch in Cajamarca, Don Joaquin Beramendi, who in an explosion of anger and madness decided to burn his farm instead of losing it to a bank to repay a debt. Juan Dioses, father of Fausto (who was only five at the time), died in the fire, trying to rescue his son. Maria Dioses, mother of Fausto, moved to Lima, Peru, with her young son. Don Joaquin, the arsonist, also fled to Lima with his daughter Carolina, who was pregnant with the future Natalia (Daniela Sarfaty), his son in law Ernesto (Paco Varela) and his grandson Victor. Although Joaquin was running away from his crime, he did not know that he would never be able to run away from the ghosts of the past or from the terrible course that Maria threw at him before leaving.

A Tu Salud

(Lifestyle - 52 x 30’ + 104 x 3’) The interesting world of health and the existence of a captive audience willing to receive this vital information, motivated journalist Maria Laura Garcia to develop a media project optimizing the few spaces dedicated by radio, TV and press to this issues. This bold journalist has engaged in an effort to bring all this information to the world, giving access to all audiences to a knowledge that will lead them to a better quality of life. A weekly health TV magazine that offers, in a pleasant, simple way, useful tools that will help the viewers achieve improvements in their health and their looks. Includes information related to traditional medicine, physical activities and alternative medicine.

Sabrosa Pasión Plus

(Light Entertainment - 52 x 60’)

This is the only talk show with interviews to famous personalities of Latin TV in the kitchen, discussing many different topics. Follow each of these spicy interviews, watching at the same time how a delectable dish is cooked. There will be health and diet advice and trips to exotic gastronomic destinations. Carlos Mesber, actor and entertainer, brings us a lot of fun.

Stage

(Entertainment format - 2 x 60’ / 6 x 90’) A fresh new entertainment series that scours the country in search of the best high school musical. Selected via a tough audition process and judged by a panel of theatre professionals, the six schools of successful amateurs are tasked with the challenge of writing and performing their very own musical. Shown over six live broadcasts, the school’s go head to head and compete to get their musical performed live on stage for a month. Putting their own reputation on the line, the winning musical is produced and funded by the countries number one musical director. The pressure is on for the young entertainers to deliver the performance of their lives.

9/11 The Fireman’s Story (Popular Factual - 1 x 60’)

Of the 2,752 people who died in the terrorist attacks on New York on 11 September 2001, 343 were FDNY firemen. This was by far the greatest loss of life by any emergency service in the world in a single day. Many of the dead had stayed in the North Tower even though they had been ordered to get out after the South Tower collapsed. Some refused to leave trapped, injured and disabled civilians they had gone in to rescue. This is why they have always been called This film tells the story of the fireman who died, those who survived and those who still bear the scars.

Sing If You Can

(Entertainment Format - 60’) How easy is it to sing…. when it’s minus 60 degrees? What about performing on stage with 500 wasps buzzing around you? Is it possible to get a group to sing in unison while its members are standing on an electrified floor? ‘Sing If You Can’ is an hour of amazing, studio entertainment, where the contestants give their all to sing popular tunes, regardless of the circumstances! Each week two teams battle as individuals, in duets or as a group, with varying degrees of talent and experience, to perform the biggest hits around while under extreme pressure! The top team gets the opportunity to perform on the ‘Money Spinner’ for a chance to win big.

Summer Crush

(Drama - Series 4: 26 x 30’ + Series 5: 40 x 30’) Alex meets Alice on the day of his 18th birthday in La Rochelle. It’s love at first sight for both of them, but the next day, Alice suddenly vanishes. Unwilling to give up on his new love he persuades his friends Eva and Leo to help him find her, and their search quickly leads them to the beautiful Pacific islands of New Caledonia. This stunning setting provides the backdrop for a series of incredible adventures featuring the friends and the tribal natives who teach their guests about the history and culture of the islands. With a road movie feel, this is an innovative and exotic series driven by the energy of its young cast!