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NBCUniversal programming such as “Today,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Real Housewives” and “Top Chef” are launching on Fubo as part of a new content licensing deal.

The media giant is partnering with the streamer on a total of 18 new Fast channels. Four Telemundo channels will launch in Fubo’s Spanish-language Latino plan and all English-language channel plans, including the Free plan, while the remaining 14 additional channels will be coming soon to all of Fubo’s English-language plans, including Free.

“We’re thrilled to bring Fubo customers a full suite of channels that lets them enjoy NBCU’s legendary content catalogue across a wide variety of genres,” Fubo content strategy and acquisition senior vice president Todd Mathers said in a statement. “From sports to entertainment and news programming, our English and Spanish-speaking customers can stay entertained and informed with NBCU’s deep archive.”

“This collaboration will enable us to connect with...

The new channels include sports options, Spanish-language networks and more

Fubo is consistently on the lookout for new programming options that will add to its customers’ user experiences without adding to their monthly subscription price. The live TV streaming service offers more than 90 top cable channels in its base Pro package, and starting this week subscribers will find a lineup of more than 15 new free ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channels available on the service from NBCUniversal.

Key Details: A total of 18 new Fast channels from NBCU are now available on Fubo. The channels are available on all English-language Fubo plans, including its Free tier. The channels include selections in the sports, news, and reality TV categories, and more. 7-Day Free Trial $94.99+ / month fubo.tv

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Fubo is bringing on 18 total new Fast channels from NBCU. Each of these channels...

Prime Video has revealed the premiere date for “Betty’s” iconic comeback in the highly anticipated series Betty La Fea, The Story Continues, coming to Prime Video on July 19, 2024.

The new series is the sequel to the Colombian telenovela that inspired ABC’s Ugly Betty. It will stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The dramedy, based on the highly acclaimed telenovela Yo soy Betty, la Fea will feature the onscreen duo from the original series, Ana María Orozco (Cochina Envidia) and Jorge Enrique Abello (Last One Laughing Colombia-lol Co).

Also returning are original cast members Julián Arango (Rigo), Natalia Ramírez (Manes), Lorna Cepeda (Amas de casa desesperadas), Luces Velásquez (Sin senos sí hay paraíso), Marcela Posada (Todos quieren con Marilyn), Mario Duarte (Francisco el matemático), Julio Cesar Herrera (Sin senos sí hay paraíso), Ricardo Vélez (El último matrimonio feliz), Alberto León Jaramillo (La vida después del reality...

I.E. Entertainment, the global distribution outfit founded and run by industry veterans Indra and Erlina Suharjono, has come on board to handle worldwide sales for Cathay Film Company’s “Coolie.”

The TV miniseries is inspired by the little-known history of enslaved Chinese ‘coolies’ in Cuba in the 1860s. It begins shooting this week in the Dominican Republic and will also include locations in Panama.

I.E. Entertainment will introduce “Coolie” to buyers for the first time at the Asia Television Forum & Market (Atf), which runs this week in Singapore.

The eight-episode English and Chinese language drama series is a global production from Meileen Choo’s Singapore-based Cathay Film Company and features a multinational ensemble cast from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cuba and Colombia.

Arvin Chen is directing. In-Ah Lee (“Land of Plenty,” “Don’t Come Knockin’” “The Way I Spent the End of the World”) is the series’ executive producer. Ed Buhr...

In a glittering event at Madrid’s Florida Park, Spain’s Secuoya Studios brought out its big guns, led by its president James Costos and Secuoya Content Group CEO Raúl Berdonés, to tout the fast-growing company’s slate, led by its 10-episode series “Zorro,” its most ambitious production.

The series pilot will be unveiled at Mipcom in a special screening on Oct. 15, noted Berdonés, who added that the two-year-old company has made a strong commitment to sustainable production.

“Zorro,” starring Miguel Bernardeau and Renata Notni, will be exclusively available on Prime Video in Latin America, the U.S., Spain, Andorra, and Portugal in the first half of 2024, followed by its broadcast on Spain’s Tve. Mediawan handles international distribution.

Attendees of the 3rd Iberseries & Platino Industria were treated to a sneak peek two days before.

Speaking of the company’s slate, Berdonés remarked: “This ambitious, innovative, distinctive, and diverse content...

It seems you can’t throw a rock without hitting a free ad-supported TV (Fast) channel from NBCUniversal these days. The company has done an excellent job distributing its streaming channels across the Fast landscape, and this week Google TV and Android TV are getting in on the party.

A total of four new NBCU Fast channels are now available on Android TV and Google TV devices. Users will see the channels in the Live tab on Google TV as soon as they pull their device out of the box, with no downloads required. The additions have helped to bring the integrated Fast channel count on Google TV devices to over 100.

The new channels available now on Google TV and Android TV devices are:

“Murder, She Wrote”: The classic detective series starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer who is called upon to solve actual crimes in her small town.

February is for lovers. But with its list of new releases for February 2023, Netflix is unveiling another season of arguably its least romantic show.

That’s right: Joe is returning in You season 4 part 1 on Feb. 9. This time around our central stalker played by Penn Badgley is across the pond in jolly old England, living an unassuming life as a bearded professor and looking for his next target. If you don’t get your fill of You this month, stay tuned for the second part of season 4 in March.

You will be joined in February by a third season of another buzzy Netflix original. The kids of Outer Banks return on Feb. 23 to find their literal and metaphorical treasure once and for all. Other originals this month include rich dog docuseries Gunther’s Millions on Feb. 1 and animated family title My Dad the Bounty Hunter on Feb. 9.

Netflix is also bringing...

Love is in the air on Netflix in February, from new romcoms like the Reese Witherspoon-starring “Your Place or Mine” to the return of murderous stalker Joe Goldberg in “You” Season 2 part 1.

Penn Badgley has long dispelled any misnomers of his “You” character being a romantic, but Joe himself still believes that’s who he is at his core. After killing his wife and faking his own death, Joe sets off for Europe so he can find Marianne (Tati Gabrielle), the woman he convinced himself he’s in love with before she learned the truth and fled. But breaking old habits has never been easy for old Joe, who quickly gets caught up in a most dubious clique of London high society that has its own struggles with lust, power, and the occasionally fatal crime.

Here’s everything coming to Netflix in February 2023.

February 1

“Bad Boys”

“Bad Boys II...

Audiences love a good procedural drama. Fox’s “9-1-1” and CBS’ “NCIS” both scored top spots among Monday night’s primetime ratings.

“9-1-1” earned the title of highest-rated (as did the network overall). The Ryan Murphy series secured a 0.7 demo rating and 5.1 million total viewers in the 8 p.m. slot.

In terms of viewers, “NCIS” was the clear winner with 7.3 million people tuning in at 9 p.m.. The O.G. series as well as its spinoff, “NCIS: Hawai’i” were back with new episodes on Monday after a week of re-airings. The network also dominated viewership overall, averaging about 6 million viewers throughout primetime.

“American Idol” only aired for one hour instead of two, which didn’t impact its numbers too much. The singing competition still drew a 0.68 demo rating and 5.9 million total viewers. In the second hour of primetime, ABC aired a new episode of “Shark Tank,” which also fared well with...

The 100th episode of “This Is Us,” titled “Katoby” (as in Kate + Toby), helped the concluding NBC drama come out on top in primetime on Tuesday in terms of single show ratings, scoring a 0.77 in the key 18-49 demo. NBC’s full primetime lineup, however, didn’t perform strong enough to secure the overall ratings win.

That title went to CBS, which returned with new episodes of Dick Wolf’s “FBI” franchise this week after airing reruns last week. CBS was also the most-watched network of the night, averaging over 6 million total viewers and rising as high as 7.4 million for the 8 p.m. airing of the O.G. series.

CBS was first in ratings across the primetime hours with a 0.56 rating for the night in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 6.2 million, according to official numbers.

“FBI” kicked off primetime with a 0.63 rating and 7.4 million total viewers at 8 p.

“Chicago Fire” returned to NBC with a new episode on Wednesday night, and set primetime ablaze by netting over 7 million total viewers.

The 9 p.m. series, part of NBC’s One Chicago block, also received a favorable 0.81 rating in the 18-49 demo. The 8 p.m. airing of “Survivor,” however, scored slightly higher, earning a 0.88 rating.

Still, NBC’s entire One Chicago lineup performed strong enough that the network overtook CBS for most-watched and highest-rated overall.

ABC News aired a primetime special about the Kardashian family during the first hour of primetime, which did pretty average and walked away as the network’s best offering of the night, with a 0.46 rating and 2.8 million viewers.

NBC was first in ratings across primetime with a 0.73 in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demo and in total viewers with an average of 6.6 million, according to official Nielsen numbers.

“Chicago Med” kicked things off with a 0.66 rating and 6.6 million total viewers at 8 p.

Korean-made series have continued to dominate viewership on Netflix, following on from the breakout successes of “Squid Game” and “Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha” in 2021.

For ten of the 13 weeks in the first quarter so far this year, Korean shows have held top spot in Netflix’s global non-English series ranking.

Romantic comedy “Business Proposal” is currently the top non-English series for the third week in a row, and is Netflix’s third-ranking series of all origins, behind only “Bridgerton” (seasons 1 and season 2) with over 32 million watch hours.

“Business Proposal” has played particularly strongly in Asia, ranking as the top series in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam and in second place in India and Sri Lanka in the last week. The recent season one finale of “Business Proposal” stirred social media reactions praising its fast-paced storytelling and charming ensemble cast.

Others in the most recent week’s...

With the return of “Reina del Sur” and “Pasión de Gavilanes,” the Tokyo Olympics and next year’s FIFA World Cup, and two new reality series, Telemundo is revving up both its linear and streaming programming with more than 1,000 hours of original content.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises unveiled its 2021-22 lineup of unscripted and scripted content Wednesday, which brings not only the rating powerhouse “Reina del Sur” for its third season, but also the network’s first-ever period drama “Malverde: El Santo Patrón,” a World War II-era tale starring Latin Grammy–winner Pedro Fernández. On the sports side, Telemundo Deportes will air more than 300 hours of coverage of the 2021 Olympics from Tokyo this summer and the most extensive coverage ever of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Family-friendly sports reality competition show “Exatlón Estados Unidos,” another rating behemoth for the network, will also continue its successful run with a sixth season.

“As...

“Los Internacionales,” the latest fruit of an ongoing title-by-title production alliance between ViacomCBS International Studios and The Mediapro Studio, will launch May 20 in 11.15 pm primetime on Argentine broadcast network Telefe.

One day later, Cablevision, Argentina’s No. 1 cable operator. will make all eight episodes available on its Svod service Flow, which also produces the series, along with Miami-based Olympusat.

Set in Bogotá and Buenos Aires in 2002, the true facts thriller, mixing a to-catch-a-thief scenario and a corruption in high-places subplot, marks the third production between Vcbsis and The Mediapro Studio in the space of three years, after esports teen drama “NooBees,” now on Season 2, and Telefe primetime’s “Victoria Small,” in which series showrunner and Tms exec Daniel Burman portrays modern-day maternity with whimsical liberal irony.

Directed by Martín Hodara (“Black Snow”), Pablo Vázquez and Pablo Ambrosini (“Graduados”), the series also represents one of the biggest new plays on ViacomCBS...

Netflix giveth and Netflix taketh away. Everyone who uses streaming services will know that as rights deals expire, movies come and go from various platforms. However, May looks to be an especially tough month for Netflix, with a lot of amazing films departing. This includes classics like Goodfellas, The Dirty Dozen, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Blade Runner: The Final Cut.

But surely the most missed will be Frank Darabont’s beloved The Shawshank Redemption. The pic is comfortably at the top of the IMDb Top 250 and its story of being confined and dreaming of escape has to appeal to viewers stuck inside due to Coronavirus lockdown.

Here’s the full list of what’s leaving:

A Cinderella Story (2004)

A Little Princess (1995)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

American Experience: The Circus (2018)

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)

Boys Over Flowers (TV Series)

Crash (2004)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Driving Miss Daisy...

Update: Zdf Enterprises, Fisher King, BeIN and Netflix deals; Fmi acquires War Child doc sales rights.

The blurring of the lines between film and TV as well as the platforms on which both features and series are distributed was a recurrent theme at Mipcom on Tuesday.

At a panel on the the crossover of talent from film to TV, speakers See-Saw Film‘s COO Hakan Kousetta, eOne Television president of global scripted programming Pancho Mansfield and Wme Img partner Chris Rice were unanimous that there was no turning back the trend.

“We’ve stopped looking at them as different,” said Rice, who helped package the BBC’s The Night Manager and Canal Plus, Sky Italia and HBO’s The Young Pope. “Virtually ever actor and director has come round to this. It’s a great time to tell stories.”

Kousetta said See-Saw Films had expanded into TV from a feature film base “accidentally” after Australian Oscar and Cannes...

Zdf Enterprises, Fisher King, BeIN and Netflix deals; Fmi acquires War Child doc sales rights.Zdf Enterprises and Fisher King Ltd sign first-look deal

Zdf Enterprises and Fisher King Ltd, the award-winning Finnish production company of producer Matti Halonen and director Miikko Oikkonen have signed a first-look deal. Under the accord, Zdf Enterprises will have exclusive, first-look rights to all scripted content developed by Fisher King, to serve as a financier and handle worldwide distribution.

The first project selected under the project is the character-driven thriller series Watchdog set against the backdrop of contemporary European legal, financial and insurance institutions with Helsinki, London and The Hague as key locations.

Fisher King’s previous dramas include Bordertown which premiered on Finnish broadcaster Yle on Oct 16, capturing 26% of the territory’s audience.

Eao report

European feature films account for 31% of all films broadcast in Europe, according to a new report released by the European Audiovisual Observatory at Mipcom.

Breaking...

Media Luna's lineup of predominantly women-centric and Spanish language films is very attractive for Ficg's upcoming market this March 6 - 16th.

"Flocking" by Beata Gårdeler won the Crystal Bear for Best Feature at Berlinale 2015

Synopsis: The small village community is convinced that the young Jennifer is lying, when she claims to have been raped by classmate Alexander. Evidence and court decisions mean nothing, where grown-up people lay down their own rules and laws to stick with the flock.

(Sweden 2015; Drama/Thriller) Based on true stories.

"Two Women" by Vera Glagoleva. Starring Ralph Fiennes ("The Grand Budapest Hotel," "The English Patient") and Sylvie Testud ("La Vie en Rose," "Lourdes")

Synopsis: Natalya is married to a land baron. Her feelings for her son’s attractive new tutor will confront her with her own daughter and turn her devoted life into a complex web of unappreciated love, lust and jealousy. (Russia, France, Latvia 2014; Drama)

"3 Beauties"(3 Bellezas) by Carlos Caridad-Montero (Venezuela 2014; Comedy) Miss Venezuela. When obsession for beauty and cosmetic surgery is taken too far.

Synopsis:Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true. Including destroying her own family.

"No Thank You" by Samuli Valkama (Finland 2014; Comedy) - Based on the Anna-Leena Härkönen bestseller, “Ei Kiitos”, published by Otava, the novel now exceeds 110.000 printed exemplars and "No Thank You" became a Box Office hit in Finland!

Synopsis: Heli’s husband is not in the mood. After many years of marriage a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy for him. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won’t help, Heli turns to increasingly direct action — in vain! Then she meets the attractive Jarno, a stunning young man. Soon she will discover what she wants, and what she doesn’t want in life.

"The Mud Woman" (La Mujer de Barro) by Sergio Castro San Martín (Chile & Argentina 2015; Drama) Starring Catalina Saavedra (Best actress at Sundace Film Festival for “The Maid”) World Premiere at Berlinale Forum 2015.

Synopsis: Maria and her daughter Teresa leave near the border between Chile and Argentina. Ten years have passed, since she last worked in the vineyard's harvest season. Now Maria has to earn some extra money and decides to return at the plantation… not knowing she will have to face her unsolved past.

"Baby Steps" by Barney Cheng (USA, Taiwan 2015; Comedy/Drama) From Oscar-winning producer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "The Wedding Banquet" by Ang Lee. Starring the award-winning actress Ah-Leh Gua ("The Wedding Banquet" and" Eat Drink Man Woman").

Synopsis: Danny and his boyfriend long to have a baby. The complex world of international surrogacy is further complicated by Danny's well-meaning but extremely meddlesome Mother who wants to control every aspect of the process all the way from Taipei.

"Internet Junkie" by Alexander Katzowicz (Argentina, Mexico & Israel 2015; Dark Comedy/Erotic) Starring Antonio Birabent ("Wild Tango"), Angela Molina ("That Obscure Object of Desire," "The Things of Love") and special appearance of Arturo Ripstein (Director of "No One Writes to the Colonel," "The Queen of the Night")

Synopsis: Inside the virtual world... A soldier looking for lovers, a teenager searching for porn, a mother in need of friends, a graduated looking for a job, women waiting to find the love of their life and the best –or any- lover in the area... outside the virtual world no one is what they seem.

"Get Married If You Can" (Casese Quien Pueda) by Marco Polo Constandse (Mexico 2014; Comedy) Box Office hit in Mexico! - Third highest-grossing film of all time – Starring Martha Higadera ("Street Kings," "Amar te duele"), Luis Gerardo Méndez ("Cantinflas") and Michel Brown ("Pasión de Gavilanes" – TV)

Synopsis: Ana is obsessed with her big dream wedding. Daniela is focused on her career, no time for marriage. When Ana finds out her fiancé is cheating on her and Daniela falls in love with her best friend they discover that the only true path to marriage is love.

"Sweet Girls" by Jean-Paul Cardinaux & Xavier Ruiz (Switzerland 2015; Dark Comedy) Generational clash, when a hopeless young generation meet an aged population.

Synopsis: Elodie and Marie are two teenagers that face the lack of opportunities offered by the housing crisis. They come up to an extreme solution: empty the apartments unjustly occupied by “the old people” who, at her eyes, are responsible of the current social imbalance. In this journey, they will discover that there are human beings, just as lost and forgotten by society as they are.

"Perfect Obedience" (Obediencia Perfecta) by Luis Urquiza (Mexico 2014; Drama) Based on a true story, the scandal related to the priest Marcial Maciel, the Head of "The Legion of Christ” (Los Legionarios de Cristo). Montreal (Best Film), Cine Ceará (Best Director, Best Actor)

Synopsis: A young seminarian will endure a hard spiritual journey to reach Perfect Obedience. His mentor, captivated by his fragility and innocence, will guide him to complete psychological and physical surrender.

"Buzzard" by Joel Potrykus (USA 2014; Dark Comedy, Drama) Joel Potrykus won Best Emerging Director and Special Mention for Best First Feature at Locarno 2012 for his film “Ape”. At this year’s Locarno, he won Special Mention from the Independent Juries and Prices in 2014 for his new feature “Buzzard”.

Synopsis: Marty is a small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him to leave his lousy temp job and hide out in his co-worker's basement. Until eventually he flees to Detroit with nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper.

"Unlucky Plaza" by Ken Kwek (Singapore 2014; Thriller, Dark Comedy) Ken Kwek’s previous compilation of shortfilms “Sex.Violence.FamilyValues - three dirrty stories from the world's cleanest city-“ was banned by the Singapore and Malaysia government in 2012. World Premiere Toronto 2014.

Synopsis: Sky has a debt to the mafia and hopes to convince his wife to sell her parent’s flat. Looking for a way out, she rents the flat to an evicted single father, while unintentionally setting into motion a series of unfortunate events.

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MADRID -- Madrid-based production house Morena Films said Monday it has added to its slate a thriller starring Victoria Abril, a Sideways-style road picture and a romantic comedy directed by Chus Gutierrez. The thriller, Expain, will be directed by Xavi Rivera and tells of two women and their unusual trip along Spain's Mediterranean coast. The film will shoot on location in Madrid and England at the end of the year. The road movie Blinkers is a co-production between Morena and Spanish commercial network Telecinco's production wing Estudios Picasso and will be directed by Alvaro Fernandez Armero. The film revolves around two professional soccer referees suffering a midlife crisis. Shooting is expected to begin in August. The project is budgeted at €3 million ($3.6 million) with cast to be decided. Gutierrez will direct the romantic comedy Trust Me, about a man who falls in love with a Colombian woman the night before he is to marry someone else. The co-production with Colombian producer Tucan has been picked up by Spanish pubcaster TVE. Trust Me will use a Spanish and Colombian cast, capitalizing on the fervor in Spain surrounding the Colombian stars of telenovela Pasion de Los Gavilanes. The film's budget is set at €2.5 million ($3 million) with shooting in Barcelona to begin in the summer. Additionally, Morena is in postproduction on Arturo Ripstein's Sadoma's Carnival, a co-production with Miguel Mecoichea, and is shopping around for an A-list director for its Brazilian beat music project Fusion, which Spike Lee backed out of.

MADRID -- After years of being looked down on as cheap daytime filler imported from the former colonies, Latin American soaps are capturing the attention of Spanish TV audiences young and old in huge numbers. Commercial network Antena 3's telenovela Pasion de Gavilanes, produced by Colombia's RTI, Caracol and Telemundo, is spearheading the new trend in Spanish daytime television, topping the daytime ratings. To help marketers and broadcasters try to figure out the reasons for the telenovela's sudden success in Spain, and to some extent in other European countries, the two-day 3rd World Summit for Telenovelas and Fiction opened here Thursday.