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France Embraces Spanish TV, But for How Long?
The removal of Domingo Corral as Movistar Plus+’ director of fiction and entertainment shrouds the operator’s future in uncertainty.
At France’s Series Mania in April, now firmly consolidated as Europe’s biggest TV festival, Spain scored a historic double, scooping its two top awards, Competition’s Grand Prize with “Querer” and its International Panorama major sidebar with “Celeste.” “There has been massive investment from the global streamers in recent years, in part because of the potential of Spanish-speaking markets, and that has pushed competition, producers and talent and the average quality of shows,” says Francesco Capurro, Series Mania Forum director. Begun by HBO over 1999-2002, global streamers when they launched aimed to amplify that phenomenon, creating a feeding frenzy for scripted premium TV which many big Spanish groups – Movistar Plus+, The Mediapro Studio, Atresmedia – have responded to with energy.
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