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Una nueva serie de Disney+ que llega en junio. © Disney+

Disney+ ha compartido el primer tráiler de su nueva serie original Ladrones: la tiara de Santa Águeda, dirigida por Inma Torrente (Valeria) y con Alejandro Bazzano (La casa de papel) a cargo de dos episodios.

Ladrones: la tiara de Santa Águeda sigue a Amber (Alonso), una de las más brillantes ladronas del mundo que, tras un robo fallido en Las Vegas, prepara su próximo golpe. Esta vez será en Isla Esperanza, un lugar paradisíaco perdido en medio del Pacífico. Su objetivo es la tiara de Santa Águeda, una joya valorada en 240 millones de dólares que la hija del magnate petrolero mexicano Emilio Villegas (Etxeandia) lucirá durante su boda. Para preparar el robo, Amber lleva tres años infiltrada en la familia Villegas como institutriz. Pero su milimétrico plan se esfuma cuando aparece en la isla Rui (Álex González), un descarado y...

Un robo imposible en una isla paradisíaca. © Disney Plus+

Disney+ ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de su nueva serie original Ladrones: la tiara de Santa Águeda, dirigida por Inma Torrente (Valeria) y con Alejandro Bazzano (La casa de papel) a cargo de dos episodios.

Ladrones: la tiara de Santa Águeda sigue a Amber (Alonso), una de las más brillantes ladronas del mundo que, tras un robo fallido en Las Vegas, prepara su próximo golpe. Esta vez será en Isla Esperanza, un lugar paradisíaco perdido en medio del Pacífico. Su objetivo es la tiara de Santa Águeda, una joya valorada en 240 millones de dólares que la hija del magnate petrolero mexicano Emilio Villegas (Etxeandia) lucirá durante su boda. Para preparar el robo, Amber lleva tres años infiltrada en la familia Villegas como institutriz. Pero su milimétrico plan se esfuma cuando aparece en la isla Rui (Álex González), un descarado y...

Disney+ Spain has unveiled what it touts as the first original daily melodrama series produced by a premium streaming platform in Europe, “Return to Las Sabinas” (“Regreso a Las Sabinas”).

The announcement was the first order of the day at the Madrid confab, Iberseries & Platino Industria, which kicked off on Oct.1.

Like the traditional telenovela, it will be stripped daily but unlike the popular genre, will run for only 70 45-minute episodes instead of the 100-plus episodes typical of the original format that originated in Latin America.

Shot in and around Barcelona, the story follows sisters Gracia and Paloma who return to their childhood home in Las Sabinas to care for their father. Gracia reconnects with her first love, Miguel, who is now engaged to Ester. However, his brother Tano, is still in love with her and refuses to back down.

Paloma takes over the family lands and clashes with landowner Paca Utrera,...

The Walt Disney Co.’s streamer is gearing up to launch a very different type of streaming content with Regreso a Las Sabinas (Return to Las Sabinas), a 70-episode daily series from Spain that kicks off with the first five episodes on Oct. 11. The remaining episodes will be released one a day Monday to Friday starting on Oct. 14.

Sofia Fábregas, vp of original production at Disney+, Walt Disney Co. Spain, discussed the experiment of bringing such an ambitious melodrama production to the streaming world in during an event in Madrid on Tuesday. After all, the Disney+ show is the first daily streaming series made in Spain.

The need for streamers to keep viewers engaged by offering fresh content regularly could well explain the series. But the show also took two and a half years to make, and more episodes means more money spent. So Fábregas and her team’s decision came down to core values.

Disney+ shared some early footage from its upcoming original Spanish series Return To Las Sabinas (Regreso a Las Sabinas) this morning at Iberseries and Platino Industria in Madrid.

The series drops on Disney+ on October 11 and is one of the streamer’s first forays into the production of daily series. The first five episodes of Return To Las Sabinas will drop on October 11 while the remaining episodes will air one each day from Monday to Friday starting October 14.

The series, which consists of 70 episodes, was created by Eulàlia Carrillo and is directed by Jordi Frades, who was on the ground here at Iberseries and Platino Industria with Sofía Fábregas, VP of Original Production, Spain.

“We thought why is nobody doing this? Why is there no daily programming on any of the platforms,” Fábregas told the crowd in Madrid of the premise behind the series. “We thought who could do this?...

Exclusive: Disney+ has boarded Shared Custody, the comedy-drama series that marks Champions maker Javier Fesser’s first directing gig in TV.

We can reveal that the streamer will launch Shared Custody in January 2025, with filmmaker Fesser directing the eight-episode series, which was announced over two years ago and explores what happens when parents separate. Fremantle-backed producer The Immigrant is making the show, which is written and created by Juanjo Moscardó Rius, who created the Goya-nominated A Shitty Therapy, and María Mínguez (Vivir dos Veces).

In Shared Custody, parents Cris and Diego have just separated by mutual agreement. Their intention is to be mature, responsible and friendly adults for the sake of their five-year-old daughter, but neither of them can afford to live alone and take care of her. Cris’ work is very absorbing and Diego does not have a fixed salary,...

Disney+ unveiled new originals out of France, Germany and Spain at Series Mania, with period drama and a pair of true crime projects added to a 70-part Spanish novella that will be stripped through the week.

Episodes of Spanish series Return to Las Sabinas will drop Monday to Friday across its run. The daily drama hails from Banijay prodco Diagonal TV.

Sofia Fabregas, VP of Original Production, Spain, took to the stage at Series Mania here in Lille, France, to announce a true crime documentary project, Lucrecia: A Murder In Madrid, at a Disney+ showcase. The doc will explore the racist 1992 murder of Lucrecia Pérezs in a Madrid night club. Justin Webster (El Pionero) is the co-writer and executive producer alongside Sumpta Ayuso (The Madrid Connection).

Kevin Deysson, Disney’s Director of Original Programs for France, announced a new series from Itinéraire productions, which made the BAFTA-nominated French Original Oussekine for the subscription streaming platform.

Seismic shifts in the world’s entertainment industry have thrown a global spotlight on Spain’s film and TV industry as never before.

Foreign productions are flocking to Spain, spending €263 million (266 million) in 2021, double the 2016-19 average, according to a ProFilm study. International inward investment in national productions has also grown on an unprecedented scale.

All the big streamers have beached in Spain. Reed Hastings cut the tape on Netflix’s first European Production Hub, in Madrid’s Tres Cantos, in 2019. Viacom Intl. Studios (Vis) Emea and Asia and AMC Networks Intl. Southern Europe have set up production operations in Spain. Other players — Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max and Starzplay — run offices in the country.

Capitalizing on such a massive presence, in March 2021 the federal government announced an Avs Hub plan aimed at sinking 1.6 billion into the entertainment industry. It is designed to turn Spain into one of the...

Drama, comedy, sci-fi and documentary projects greenlit.

Disney+ has unveiled its first slate of 10 European originals, including drama, comedy, sci-fi and documentary projects from France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

It has greenlit projects from creators and producers including Juliette Howell, Stephen Butchard, Quoc Dang Tran and Jörg Winger, and includes the first titles for new entertainment brand Star, which will launch on the streaming platform on February 23.

The move follows the studio’s announcement in December that it would commission 50 productions in Europe by 2024. A UK title has yet to be revealed but Disney said it had “a raft...

Exclusive: Disney+’s European originals strategy is out of the launch bay after the Star Wars and Marvel streamer fired up the jetpack on a slate of 10 shows, including the first projects for international general entertainment brand Star.

Disney announced at its investor day last December that Disney+ will greenlight 50 international projects by 2024. The Mouse House is already a fifth of the way towards meeting this target as it looks to complement shows like The Mandalorian and WandaVision with thoroughbred local content for its 95 million subscribers in 58 territories.

Spearheaded by Diego Londono, Disney’s EVP of media networks and content in Emea, and Liam Keelan, VP of original content in the region, Disney+ has commissioned its first projects out of France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. Deadline hears that a UK slate is also close to being announced, as Disney lavishes $16 billion on content over the next three years.

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One of the most anticipated of Spanish TV fiction titles for 2021, Movistar Plus’ Original Series “Antidisturbios” (“Riot Police”), the first full TV series created by filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, was the subject of an international presentation on Tuesday at Conecta Fiction Reboot.

Part of the 4th Latin America-Europe TV co-production meeting, running June 15-18 in Pamplona, Spain, the event has been forced online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. An on-site edition is scheduled to return to Pamplona’s Baluarte Congress Center over Sept. 2-3.

Suggesting a strategic aim of strengthening its position not only as a global producer but also as a distributor of at least its key original TV dramas, Telefonica’s Movistar Plus is for the moment directly handling international sales on Sorogoyen’s “Riot Police,” the action thriller mini-series produced for Movistar by Sorogoyen’s Caballo Films and The Lab.

Previous Movistar Plus Original Series have been handled...