After an opening performance by a guitar-picking Jimmy Fallon — who sung about, among other things, how “next year I’ll be a hologram” — the NBCUniversal upfront got underway Monday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
So you didn’t make it to the home of the Rockettes? Here’s what you missed:
-NBCUniversal Chairman Mark Lazarus briefly took the stage to crow “while others have been spinning, we’ve spent the last year investing in our content, tech and overall experience.” “No one else can do what we do,” he added.
-Talent like Jabari Banks and Jesse L. Martin talked up content like The Irrational and Bel-Air before tossing to a breathless video package touting NBCUni content that was hosted by Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
-NBCUniversal Studio Group Chair and Chief Content Officer Donna Langley chatted about how she’s “excited to build up our story legacy across film,...
So you didn’t make it to the home of the Rockettes? Here’s what you missed:
-NBCUniversal Chairman Mark Lazarus briefly took the stage to crow “while others have been spinning, we’ve spent the last year investing in our content, tech and overall experience.” “No one else can do what we do,” he added.
-Talent like Jabari Banks and Jesse L. Martin talked up content like The Irrational and Bel-Air before tossing to a breathless video package touting NBCUni content that was hosted by Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
-NBCUniversal Studio Group Chair and Chief Content Officer Donna Langley chatted about how she’s “excited to build up our story legacy across film,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Telemundo is bringing a wave of new reality shows, drama series and events to its programming lineup for the 2024-25 season as the NBCUniversal outlet seeks to build on its momentum as the most-watched Spanish-language TV network in primetime.
Telemundo has logged two consecutive months of drawing the largest audience in Spanish-language TV in primetime, topping the long-established Univision. Telemundo is preparing to make its pitch on May 13 to advertisers and media buyers at an evening event, separate from the larger NBCUniversal programming presentation to be held the same day at Radio City Music Hall.
“As the number one Spanish-language broadcast network in primetime, we are proud to unveil a programming slate for the next season that continues to innovate and redefine Hispanic media,” said Luis Fernandez, chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. “Latinos represent the single largest growth opportunity for businesses in America. They are young, wielding a tremendous purchasing...
Telemundo has logged two consecutive months of drawing the largest audience in Spanish-language TV in primetime, topping the long-established Univision. Telemundo is preparing to make its pitch on May 13 to advertisers and media buyers at an evening event, separate from the larger NBCUniversal programming presentation to be held the same day at Radio City Music Hall.
“As the number one Spanish-language broadcast network in primetime, we are proud to unveil a programming slate for the next season that continues to innovate and redefine Hispanic media,” said Luis Fernandez, chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. “Latinos represent the single largest growth opportunity for businesses in America. They are young, wielding a tremendous purchasing...
- 5/9/2024
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Telemundo has revealed its upcoming 2024-25 multiplatform programming offerings including a slate of reality TV shows, scripted dramas, live events and specials, news and sports.
Select offerings broken down by categories can be found below.
Unscripted
Telemundo’s Spanish language Celebrity Big Brother-inspired series La Casa de Los Famosos returns for a fifth season, alongside last summer’s breakout hit Los 50 and new seasons of Top Chef VIP and the network’s longest-running reality competition, Exaltón Estados Unidos. New titles include La Isla: Desafío Extremo, a survival reality show featuring a mix of celebrities and fans and Sin Fronteras (w/t), a new global ‘banda’ competition.
Scripted
For fans of the highly-rated drama series El Señor de los Cielos—currently airing its ninth season starring Rafael Amaya— the franchise is expanding. La Dinastía Casillas (w/t) will follow a new generation led by Rutila, Ismael and the heirs of...
Select offerings broken down by categories can be found below.
Unscripted
Telemundo’s Spanish language Celebrity Big Brother-inspired series La Casa de Los Famosos returns for a fifth season, alongside last summer’s breakout hit Los 50 and new seasons of Top Chef VIP and the network’s longest-running reality competition, Exaltón Estados Unidos. New titles include La Isla: Desafío Extremo, a survival reality show featuring a mix of celebrities and fans and Sin Fronteras (w/t), a new global ‘banda’ competition.
Scripted
For fans of the highly-rated drama series El Señor de los Cielos—currently airing its ninth season starring Rafael Amaya— the franchise is expanding. La Dinastía Casillas (w/t) will follow a new generation led by Rutila, Ismael and the heirs of...
- 5/9/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
In an exclusive interview with Variety, Ronald Day, Telemundo’s president of entertainment & content strategy, drilled down on what has made action-packed series “Lord of the Skies” (“El Señor de los cielos”), the company’s longest-running Super Series franchise and a bonafide hit.
With Season 9 set to premiere Feb. 13, “Lord of the Skies” has earned its street cred across a spectrum of young adults, split evenly among males and females. Per Nielsen, its eighth season “ranked as the #1 drama series in primetime, regardless of language, 6 out of 9 nights since its premiere, among adults 18-49, and on 8 out of 9 nights among adults 18-34.”
Season 9’s trailer, loaded with explosive scenes and showcasing the first time the series shot in Mexico’s Chinatown, clocked more than a million hits in 24 hours, he noted.
Drug lord Aurelio Casillas, played by Mexico’s Rafael Amaya, is “relatable,” observed Day. Despite his ruthless nature, “he...
With Season 9 set to premiere Feb. 13, “Lord of the Skies” has earned its street cred across a spectrum of young adults, split evenly among males and females. Per Nielsen, its eighth season “ranked as the #1 drama series in primetime, regardless of language, 6 out of 9 nights since its premiere, among adults 18-49, and on 8 out of 9 nights among adults 18-34.”
Season 9’s trailer, loaded with explosive scenes and showcasing the first time the series shot in Mexico’s Chinatown, clocked more than a million hits in 24 hours, he noted.
Drug lord Aurelio Casillas, played by Mexico’s Rafael Amaya, is “relatable,” observed Day. Despite his ruthless nature, “he...
- 1/23/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Viewers watching La Usurpadora The Musical in theaters this weekend are going to have a hard time not singing along to the film’s re-imagining of Nineties classic songs. On Friday, the bilingual film, which is based on the iconic Nineties telenovela of the same name, premieres in theaters — and its soundtrack features a selection of the nostalgic Latin pop hits.
Rolling Stone has an exclusive first look at one of the film’s musical numbers: a mashup of Ricky Martin’s “Vuelve” and Ana Gabriel and Vikki Carr’s “Cosas del Amor,...
Rolling Stone has an exclusive first look at one of the film’s musical numbers: a mashup of Ricky Martin’s “Vuelve” and Ana Gabriel and Vikki Carr’s “Cosas del Amor,...
- 4/6/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Even though it’s been decades since it first premiered, La Usurpadora remains one of the campiest, most beloved classics in the telenovela canon. Its 102-episode run was full of jaw-dropping plot twists and shocking surprises that gripped audiences from the moment the Spanish-language drama premiered in February 1998 (in Mexico, three out of every four people reportedly watched the show, which was broadcasted in more than 125 countries.)
The story followed two long-lost twins — one rich and evil, one poor and saintly, both played by actress Gabriela Spanic — and involved no...
The story followed two long-lost twins — one rich and evil, one poor and saintly, both played by actress Gabriela Spanic — and involved no...
- 4/6/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez and Lucas Villa
- Rollingstone.com
When we think of telenovelas, we're quick to get nostalgic about the ones we grew up watching with our moms and abuelas. We tend to associate them with being an older-generation thing, with their overdramatic and also very predictable love narratives. But that doesn't mean there aren't young Latinx folks out there who don't tune in. It makes sense, considering there are audiences who do consume content and entertainment both in English and Spanish. In fact, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises established the term "200ers" to describe them, referring to a demographic of Latinxs who identify 100 percent as American and 100 percent as Latinx and "share the values of both cultures, are bilingual, and flawlessly jump between cultures." This would explain why Emmy Award-winning telenovela "El Señor de los Cielos," with its eighth season returning to Telemundo on Tuesday, Jan. 17, has become a cross-generational hit over the years, appealing to a wider Latinx audience than ever thought possible.
- 1/18/2023
- by Johanna Ferreira
- Popsugar.com
Major Latino Hollywood studio Pantelion Films is starting production on what it describes as its “most ambitious undertaking to date”: “La Usurpadora, the Musical.”
Given Pantelion was the distributor of “Instructions Not Included,” the highest grossing Spanish-language film of all time in the U.S., as well as producer of “No Manches Frida,” its highest grossing Spanish comedy, that claim to ambition means something, singling out “La Usurpadora, the Musical” as one of the big Spanish-language releases of 2022.
Produced by Pantelion Films and The Lift Entertainment, the movie marks a modern musical adaptation of one of the most succesful telenovelas of all time, “La Usurpadora,” a 1998 Televisa classic that hit huge ratings and was exported to 125 countries.
Directed by Santiago Limón,, “La Usurpadora, the Musical” teams music producer Sebastian Krys, winner of eight Grammy awards and 12 Latin Grammy awards, choreographer Priscilla Hernández, creator of the Day of the Dead parade in “James Bond: Specter,...
Given Pantelion was the distributor of “Instructions Not Included,” the highest grossing Spanish-language film of all time in the U.S., as well as producer of “No Manches Frida,” its highest grossing Spanish comedy, that claim to ambition means something, singling out “La Usurpadora, the Musical” as one of the big Spanish-language releases of 2022.
Produced by Pantelion Films and The Lift Entertainment, the movie marks a modern musical adaptation of one of the most succesful telenovelas of all time, “La Usurpadora,” a 1998 Televisa classic that hit huge ratings and was exported to 125 countries.
Directed by Santiago Limón,, “La Usurpadora, the Musical” teams music producer Sebastian Krys, winner of eight Grammy awards and 12 Latin Grammy awards, choreographer Priscilla Hernández, creator of the Day of the Dead parade in “James Bond: Specter,...
- 12/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
On Thursday, Telemundo released its first behind-the-scenes look at “Malverde: El Santo Patrón” (“Malverde: The Patron Saint”), the ambitious upcoming series starring Latin Grammy Award winner Pedro Fernández and Mexican actor Carolina Miranda.
“Malverde: El Santo Patrón” follows a boy, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1870, who will ultimately become a legendary figure and a religious icon. Malverde becomes a protector of the people, as well as the innocent, the poor and the dispossessed.
The above clip reveals what the 215,000 square-foot backlot built atop Mexican national park Cumbres del Ajusco looked like before and after, and what it took to recreate the world of the iconic Mexican character, set in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The town of San Blas de Baca consists of 11 buildings with 77 sets, designed by Telemundo’s Valeria Fińana and award-winning production designer Gloria Carrasco.
“To tell such an iconic story like ‘Malverde,’ we had to...
“Malverde: El Santo Patrón” follows a boy, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1870, who will ultimately become a legendary figure and a religious icon. Malverde becomes a protector of the people, as well as the innocent, the poor and the dispossessed.
The above clip reveals what the 215,000 square-foot backlot built atop Mexican national park Cumbres del Ajusco looked like before and after, and what it took to recreate the world of the iconic Mexican character, set in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The town of San Blas de Baca consists of 11 buildings with 77 sets, designed by Telemundo’s Valeria Fińana and award-winning production designer Gloria Carrasco.
“To tell such an iconic story like ‘Malverde,’ we had to...
- 7/22/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
Telemundo has unveiled its latest slate of 900 hours of original content including a new drug lord drama starring Majida Issa and Mark Tacher.
NBCUniversal’s Hispanic network is launching a slew of new shows and renewals, including an update on its adaptation of gameshow The Wall, ahead of NBCU’s Upfront presentation on Monday.
This marks its first slate since the departure of president Luis Silberwasser.
Operación Pacífico is the broadcaster’s latest Super Series, a slate of action-orientated telenovelas that have reinvented the genre with shorter runs. The show is inspired by the true story of federal agent Amalia Ortega.
Elsewhere, it has renewed El Señor de los Cielos for a seventh season and is launching limited series No Te Puedes Esconder. In reality, it is “recharging” shows including The Voice (La Voz) and Exatlon as well as premiering The Wall.
“Hispanics are no longer just a demographic story.
NBCUniversal’s Hispanic network is launching a slew of new shows and renewals, including an update on its adaptation of gameshow The Wall, ahead of NBCU’s Upfront presentation on Monday.
This marks its first slate since the departure of president Luis Silberwasser.
Operación Pacífico is the broadcaster’s latest Super Series, a slate of action-orientated telenovelas that have reinvented the genre with shorter runs. The show is inspired by the true story of federal agent Amalia Ortega.
Elsewhere, it has renewed El Señor de los Cielos for a seventh season and is launching limited series No Te Puedes Esconder. In reality, it is “recharging” shows including The Voice (La Voz) and Exatlon as well as premiering The Wall.
“Hispanics are no longer just a demographic story.
- 5/9/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In what could only be seen as further evidence of the increasing globalization of content, plus Viacom’s drive to produce for and with third-party companies, Nickelodeon Latin America, a Viacom International Studios (Vis) unit, has kicked off production on its Latino fictional music series 60-episode “Club 57” in Italy.
Nickelodeon Latin America’s first co-production with Iginio Straffi’s Rainbow Group, “Club 57” boasts a pan-regional cast and began taping mid-September on location in Puglia, Italy to later continue production at the Viacom studios in Miami, Florida.
“Club 57” revolves around teens Eva and her brother Ruben who accidentally travel to 1957. Not unlike the 1985 hit “Back to the Future,” Eva falls in love and decides to stay, but her decision triggers a butterfly effect that would change their lives for the worse, not improve them.
Combining music, dance and time-traveling adventures, Eva must now find a way to return to the...
Nickelodeon Latin America’s first co-production with Iginio Straffi’s Rainbow Group, “Club 57” boasts a pan-regional cast and began taping mid-September on location in Puglia, Italy to later continue production at the Viacom studios in Miami, Florida.
“Club 57” revolves around teens Eva and her brother Ruben who accidentally travel to 1957. Not unlike the 1985 hit “Back to the Future,” Eva falls in love and decides to stay, but her decision triggers a butterfly effect that would change their lives for the worse, not improve them.
Combining music, dance and time-traveling adventures, Eva must now find a way to return to the...
- 10/12/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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