Spain’s TV market saw 82 new fiction series commissions over September 2022 to August 2023, 61% of them aimed at exclusive online release, compared to 52% the year before, according to TV research firm The Wit.
A few years ago, online was an afterthought. Now, to various degrees and in different ways, it is replacing linear as operators’ major concern.“Linear operators are refocusing their productions with the perspective of reaching a younger audience,” says the Wit’s Caroline Servy.
The clout of platforms within the industry has progressed very quickly.Atresplayer, the platform run by leading broadcaster Atresmedia, has increasingly become an energetic driver behind the local TV production sector since its 2013 launch. Public broadcaster Rtve is venturing into co-production as it has committed to provide exclusive and original content to its Rtve Play platform.
On Aug. 1, Movistar Plus, Telefónica’s pay TV/VOD operator, bowed a new souped-up version of its basic tier as a streaming service.
A few years ago, online was an afterthought. Now, to various degrees and in different ways, it is replacing linear as operators’ major concern.“Linear operators are refocusing their productions with the perspective of reaching a younger audience,” says the Wit’s Caroline Servy.
The clout of platforms within the industry has progressed very quickly.Atresplayer, the platform run by leading broadcaster Atresmedia, has increasingly become an energetic driver behind the local TV production sector since its 2013 launch. Public broadcaster Rtve is venturing into co-production as it has committed to provide exclusive and original content to its Rtve Play platform.
On Aug. 1, Movistar Plus, Telefónica’s pay TV/VOD operator, bowed a new souped-up version of its basic tier as a streaming service.
- 10/16/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Former top Vis exec Laura Abril has been appointed EVP of scripted and global business development at Buendía Estudios, producer of “Veneno,” “Cardo” Season 1 and “Offworld,” in a move which signals the large international ambitions of one of Spain’s key production powerhouses.
Abril will report to Ignacio Corrales, Buendía Estudios CEO.
Rising through the ranks at Viacom from 2009, Abril crowned her career at the studio as the highest-ranking international TV executive in Spain named in 2019 as head of ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis) for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Launched in August 2020, Buendía Estudios has already scored heavily in creative terms, producing a Variety Best International TV Show in 2020 (“Veneno”), 2021 (“Cardo” Season 1) and 2022 (“Offworld”). In volume, in 2022, it produced seven series for streaming services, more than any other production house in Spain, according to a study by Madrid-based consultancy Geca.
Six of these were, however, for either Atresplayer Premium,...
Abril will report to Ignacio Corrales, Buendía Estudios CEO.
Rising through the ranks at Viacom from 2009, Abril crowned her career at the studio as the highest-ranking international TV executive in Spain named in 2019 as head of ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis) for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Launched in August 2020, Buendía Estudios has already scored heavily in creative terms, producing a Variety Best International TV Show in 2020 (“Veneno”), 2021 (“Cardo” Season 1) and 2022 (“Offworld”). In volume, in 2022, it produced seven series for streaming services, more than any other production house in Spain, according to a study by Madrid-based consultancy Geca.
Six of these were, however, for either Atresplayer Premium,...
- 2/27/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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