RTVE: content diversification and new businesses

La Caza Tramuntana

After a great reception to its international programs and TV channels at Digital MIPTV, RTVE is attending one more time LA Virtual Screenings with a full line up of Spanish dramas, which are gaining new international markets. Among them, are the judicial investigation thriller Ana Tramel. El juego and the daily series Dos Vidas, two of the last productions from the public Spanish Corporation.

Estoy Vivo / I’m Alive

Based on the novel Ana from Roberto Santiago, the first series is starred by Goya Awards winner Maribel Verdú who plays the role of this brilliant criminal lawyer. A call from her brother Alejandro hers, whom she has not seen for years, makes her get going again. He has been accused of murdering the director of the Gran Castilla casino. Surrounded by a small trustworthy team, she will have to face a huge corporation in the gaming industry. Natalia Verbeke, Unax Ugalde and Israel Elejalde complete the cast.

The second production tells the story of two nonconformist women, grandmother and granddaughter, willing to change the world and fulfill their dreams. The story of two lives that connect at unexpected times and at different times, is set in today’s Spain and in the colony of Spanish Guinea in the 1950s. In addition, RTVE is also presenting the latest seasons of the series I’m Alive (S4), Cuentame cómo paso (S21) and La Caza. Tramuntana.

El Ministerio del Tiempo T4

More than 1500 buyers from all over the world will be able to access RTVE’s virtual booth and screen the latest blockbusters from La 1, which gaining several deals around the world. Key agreements have been announced recently, including packages with various platforms from Russia, CIS, Finland and Nordic countries, as well as US Hispanic. Also noteworthy is the sale of La Otra Mirada, Malaka, Néboa and La Caza. Monteperdido to the US and English-speaking Canada.

Regarding entertainment formats, the sales of Donde comen dos to Argentina and Final Code to France stand out. Documentaries is another big genre at RTVE, including AI-Inteligencia Artificial, La vida secreta de las momias, Mario y los Perros, Jardines con Historia, Lagun y La resistencia a ETA, Escala Humana or De Parque en Parque that show the quality and diversity of the public group’s production. RTVE has recently sold The Guanches Mummies to Italy, Brain Hunter to Serbia and Spanish World Heritage Cities to China. Another business segment that has aroused great interest has been that of the new youth formats, both fiction and entertainment, created by RTVE for its Playz platform, some of which will soon be seen in Italy.