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Conecta Fiction: More Co-Production, Cost Contention and the ‘Severely Overstated’ Death of Peak TV
Spain's Conecta Fiction showcased last week a vibrant and evolving international TV industry which still confronts its major bugbear: Spiralling costs.
Global streamers are acquiring just local rights – Max for example on Iberian eco-thriller “Lume” and Spain’s “Favoritix” – opening doors for producers to look to them to occupy a traditional pay 1 window, covering a sufficient chunk of budgets. It makes the lowest cost of one minute of TV in Western Europe, has talent and a supportive government, “an alternative to American/Brazilian markets [for companies] looking to produce great content in a more cost-effective way,” Glaz’s Carolina Alckmin told Variety. *Greta Molas, creator of the original Argentine version of The Cleaning Lady,” has signed with Madrid-based Hispánica Audiovisual and Uma Films, in Córdoba, Argentina to develop “Escorts” set in a world of luxuried sex-workers, and organized crime.
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