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Exclusive: TelevisaUnivision’s streamer, ViX, is setting sail for Europe.

The service will launch in Spain in January 2025, we can reveal, and be available on Atresplayer, Atresmedia’s streaming platform.

ViX will be offered on Atresplayer with no ads, and offer customers in Spain a library of 15,000 hours of content, live sport from several Liga Mx teams in Mexico and an extensive library of Spanish-language telenovelas, comedies and dramas such as La Mujer del Diablo, El Gallo de Oro, El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar, Más Allá de Ti and Pacto de Sangre and films including ¿Quieres ser mi Hijo? and Bendita Suegra.

“This partnership with Atresmedia marks a pivotal step in ViX’s expansion strategy, reinforcing our commitment to delivering unparalleled premium content across global Spanish-speaking markets,” said Rafael Urbina, President of Streaming and Digital at TelevisaUnivision. “We are excited to introduce ViX to new audiences in Spain and...

Life swings between triumph and failure in the enthralling “El Gran Salto” produced by Atresmedia TV in collaboration with Banijay’s Diagonal TV, the force behind shows such as “Isabel” and “La Catedral del Mar.”

Spanish star Óscar Casas stars as Olympic Gold Medalist gymnast Gervasio Deferr. The series is written by “Bye” scribe José Rodríguez and based on the Olympian’s own book of his struggles.

“Success is like a pendulum; it goes back and forth and is very delicate because if you don’t control it, it can screw up your life,” Deferr’s coach advises in the series opener.

This metaphor sets the tone for a five parter, which chronicles Deferr’s Olympic victories and profound personal struggles. Taking the reins is Catalan Director Roger Gual, “The idea from the beginning was to show the two sides of sports: success and failure. In Gervasio’s case, success came very early,...

“Artistock Game” Cj Enm

The new shiny-floor music show from Korean powerhouse Cj Enm. Viewers receive virtual game money to invest in a choice of 48 artists ranging from the indie scene to K-pop. Only one winner with the highest stock price remains at the end. Broadcast in Korea by Cj Enm-owned pay TV channel Mnet.

“A Better Place” Studiocanal

A social-issue thriller from Komplizen Serien, the TV arm of “Spencer” producer Komplizen Film, and Studiocanal Series, its first German show. In Rheinstadt, a gray-skied post-industrial city, its progressive mayor and a criminal law expert close a local correctional facility, reintegrating its inmates into society. The fates of the ex-cons steadily intertwine with that of Rheinstadt itself. This eight-episode series is backed by European heavyweights Canal + and Ard.

“The Big Jump” Atresmedia Intl. Sales

One of Atresmedia’s biggest bets at Mipcom, this biopic series follows Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr...

Madrid’s 4th Iberseries & Platino Industria’s conferences were packed, foot traffic at Madrid’s Matadero, a former slaughterhouse, was heavy. Delegates came as the industry has been facing a well documented perfect storm of rising costs and an invested pull back from streamers and broadcasters, hit respectively by cost-contention and plunging ad sales.

Yet the mood at Iberseries, which wrapped Friday, was “hopeful,” said Fremantle’s Manuel Martí. Takeaways from this year’s edition, which ran Oct. 1-4:

Spain Stands Strong

“The big slow-down hasn’t yet got to Spain,” Banijay Iberia CEO Pilar Blasco commented on an Iberseries & Platino panel. Spain’s shoot incentives are among Europe’s biggest – €10 million-€18 million ($10.9 million-$19.7 million) per TV episode. Spain had more and bigger first-half non-English Netflix hits than any other country in the world. In contrast, through September, first-run scripted series production is down in every major market in Latin America,...

La serie se estrenará en la plataforma de streaming este año. © Atresplayer

“El Gran Salto”, la nueva serie original de Atresplayer protagonizada por Óscar Casas como el campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, se proyectará en el Festival de San Sebastián en septiembre.

La serie, compuesta por cinco episodios de 50 minutos, narra una de las historias más apasionantes del deporte español: la vida del campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, su camino hacia el éxito olímpico y su caída a los infiernos. Deferr ganó dos medallas de oro olímpicas en salto en Sydney 2000 y Atenas 2004, y una de plata en suelo en Pekín 2008. De personalidad muy compleja y autoexigente, no supo gestionar bien el delicado equilibrio éxito-fracaso, lo que le arrastró a una espiral de autodestrucción y desfases, que le distanciaron de su familia y amigos, hasta que finalmente abandonó la competición deportiva. A lo largo de los cinco episodios, veremos la dualidad entre...

La serie se estrenará este año. © Atresplayer

“El Gran Salto”, la nueva serie original de Atresplayer protagonizada por Óscar Casas como el campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, ha finalizado su rodaje y hace públicas sus primeras imágenes.

La serie, compuesta por cinco episodios de 50 minutos, narra una de las historias más apasionantes del deporte español: la vida del campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, su camino hacia el éxito olímpico y su caída a los infiernos. Deferr ganó dos medallas de oro olímpicas en salto en Sydney 2000 y Atenas 2004, y una de plata en suelo en Pekín 2008. De personalidad muy compleja y autoexigente, no supo gestionar bien el delicado equilibrio éxito-fracaso, lo que le arrastró a una espiral de autodestrucción y desfases, que le distanciaron de su familia y amigos, hasta que finalmente abandonó la competición deportiva. A lo largo de los cinco episodios, veremos la dualidad entre dos momentos vitales de Deferr:...