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Kanal D Drama, the first independent streaming service dedicated exclusively to Turkish dramas in Spanish, will board the Roku platform for key Latin American markets in the next few days.

The service is already available on Amazon Fire and will soon be also available on the Samsung Smart TV platform in the region.

The streaming service launched in Latin America, the U.S. and Spain in the fall, and offers more than 4,000 hours of Turkish melodramas and series dubbed into neutral Spanish. It is downloadable from the Apple Store and Google Play for smartphones and tablets and is already available on Roku in the U.S. The launch comes at a time when Turkish dramas, known as ‘Dizi,’ continue to be wildly popular, boosting ratings of networks in Latin America, the U.S. and Spain.

In the U.S., Univision’s sister channel UniMas has seen a ratings boost with ‘Dizi,...

In July 2020, Netflix canceled production on Turkish series “If Only” after Turkish authorities refused to grant it a shoot permit on the eve of it going into production.

The bone of contention, the original series’ creator and screenwriter Ece Yörenç told the Financial Times, was the presence in the screenplay of a character who was gay. Rather than capitulate to the sensed demand of Turkish authorities to excise this character, Netflix and Yörenç took the joint decision to cancel the shoot.

On Thursday, nine months after the cancelation, Netflix Spain announced a Spanish adaptation of “If Only,” “Si lo hubiera sabido,” written by Spain’s Irma Correa, who has already helped adapt Yörenç’s “Fatmagul” as Spanish TV series “Alba,” produced by Boomerang for Atresmedia.

Correa will serve as the Spanish adaptation’s showrunner, Yorenç as a consultant.

Once more produced by Boomerang, the Spanish adaptation of Yörenç’s original...