The Portuguese TV fiction sector is experiencing growth as it garners international visibility through co-productions and alliances with streamers and foreign broadcasters.
With a small domestic market – some 10 million inhabitants – Portuguese TV production is making a virtue of necessity. The region possesses a diversity of TV fiction offerings, ranging from commercial telenovelas to an increasing number of premium TV dramas, and is rapidly opening up to international partnerships.
In 2015, local indie producers got into TV fiction series via public broadcaster Rtp, a driving force behind the sector. That was then followed by private TV operators and later by global streamers.
“Portugal has changed a lot in the last few years,” says José Eduardo Moniz, general manager at Tvi, the country’s top private broadcaster.
“The transposition into Portugal of the European Union’s Audiovisual and Media Services Directive created the conditions for investment in local production,” argues Pedro Lopes, content...
With a small domestic market – some 10 million inhabitants – Portuguese TV production is making a virtue of necessity. The region possesses a diversity of TV fiction offerings, ranging from commercial telenovelas to an increasing number of premium TV dramas, and is rapidly opening up to international partnerships.
In 2015, local indie producers got into TV fiction series via public broadcaster Rtp, a driving force behind the sector. That was then followed by private TV operators and later by global streamers.
“Portugal has changed a lot in the last few years,” says José Eduardo Moniz, general manager at Tvi, the country’s top private broadcaster.
“The transposition into Portugal of the European Union’s Audiovisual and Media Services Directive created the conditions for investment in local production,” argues Pedro Lopes, content...
- 6/18/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Toledo, Spain — At this month’s Annecy, France’s Canal+, France Télévisions and even Gulli delighted the business by unveiling new production slates which boasted some of the boldest projects being brought to market at the French festival.
At one and the same time, major European broadcasters, the BBC and France Télévisions again, were talking up their streaming services at Annecy.
These used to be treated as a complement to their linear offering. Now it’s increasingly the other way round.
Annecy, of course, is animation. But could the same market forces be at work in live action TV and in Spain?
More than a hint of a step-by-step revolution at work at Rtve, Spain’s public broadcaster, was sensed at an upbeat showcase on Wednesday.
Moderated by José Pastor, Rtve’s director of film and fiction, the show-case, Rtve Co-Productions on Board, featured three shows, “Allende, the Thousand Days,...
At one and the same time, major European broadcasters, the BBC and France Télévisions again, were talking up their streaming services at Annecy.
These used to be treated as a complement to their linear offering. Now it’s increasingly the other way round.
Annecy, of course, is animation. But could the same market forces be at work in live action TV and in Spain?
More than a hint of a step-by-step revolution at work at Rtve, Spain’s public broadcaster, was sensed at an upbeat showcase on Wednesday.
Moderated by José Pastor, Rtve’s director of film and fiction, the show-case, Rtve Co-Productions on Board, featured three shows, “Allende, the Thousand Days,...
- 6/28/2023
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
AMC Networks Intl. Latin America has acquired Rtve hit, Spanish-Portuguese thriller “Sequía,” which will be broadcast throughout the region on its Europa Europa channel.
The story centers on the mystery behind two mummified corpses – apparent murder victims — that are discovered when a long submerged village emerges from the drying Campomediano reservoir along the Spanish-Portuguese border during a prolonged drought (“sequía” in Spanish).
While a Spanish inspector and investigative reporter suspect the bodies may be linked to environmental protests that took place to prevent the creation of the reservoir, a Portuguese detective is secretly investigating the possibility that one of the deceased could be the heir to the Souza Cardoso fortune who disappeared years ago.
Weaving between two time periods, the late 1990s and the present, when secrets begin to be revealed, the story follows two influential families in Spain and Portugal who inhabit beautiful areas of both countries as well...
The story centers on the mystery behind two mummified corpses – apparent murder victims — that are discovered when a long submerged village emerges from the drying Campomediano reservoir along the Spanish-Portuguese border during a prolonged drought (“sequía” in Spanish).
While a Spanish inspector and investigative reporter suspect the bodies may be linked to environmental protests that took place to prevent the creation of the reservoir, a Portuguese detective is secretly investigating the possibility that one of the deceased could be the heir to the Souza Cardoso fortune who disappeared years ago.
Weaving between two time periods, the late 1990s and the present, when secrets begin to be revealed, the story follows two influential families in Spain and Portugal who inhabit beautiful areas of both countries as well...
- 5/24/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish public broadcaster Rtve has struck a VOD deal with Walter Presents to bring noir thriller series “Sequía” (“The Drought”) to the U.S, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada.
The suspense series is co-produced by Spanish and Portuguese public broadcasters Rtve and Rtp, in collaboration with Atlantia Media and Coral Europa.
“The Drought” is set in a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border that re-emerges from a huge dam built in the 1990s after a severe drought. Two skeletons are also unearthed, revealing evidence of a bloody crime.
The action switches between the 1990s and the present day, against the backdrop of climate crisis and corporate skullduggery.
Actors Elena Rivera (“Inés del Alma Mía”), Rodolfo Sancho (“The Department of Time”), Marco D’Almeida (“Fatima”) and Miguel Ángel Muñoz (“Presunto culpable”) take the leading roles in the series.
Walter Presents, the video-on-demand service dedicated to hand-picking prestigious foreign-language dramas from around the world,...
The suspense series is co-produced by Spanish and Portuguese public broadcasters Rtve and Rtp, in collaboration with Atlantia Media and Coral Europa.
“The Drought” is set in a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border that re-emerges from a huge dam built in the 1990s after a severe drought. Two skeletons are also unearthed, revealing evidence of a bloody crime.
The action switches between the 1990s and the present day, against the backdrop of climate crisis and corporate skullduggery.
Actors Elena Rivera (“Inés del Alma Mía”), Rodolfo Sancho (“The Department of Time”), Marco D’Almeida (“Fatima”) and Miguel Ángel Muñoz (“Presunto culpable”) take the leading roles in the series.
Walter Presents, the video-on-demand service dedicated to hand-picking prestigious foreign-language dramas from around the world,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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