Spain’s Mediacrest Brings Eco-Reality Format ‘The Village’ Onto the International Market (Exclusive)
Spain’s fast-growing production house Mediacrest Entertainment is launching high-concept eco-reality contest format “El pueblo” (“The Village”), which will have its international market premiere at this week’s MipTV trade fair.
Designed as a primetime reality show, “El pueblo” has been structured as a social experiment, charting five families’ attempt to settle in an abandoned village, guided by the principles of sustainability and globally connected self-sufficiency.
The families’ will create their own rules, events and traditions, will initiate agriculture and livestock initiatives and start trading with nearby towns, sand later with the world. The twist: Only one winning family finally gets to stay in the village.
“Our goal is to provide the audience with content not only attractive in terms of television, but also that makes a social contribution,” said Daniel Domenjó, entertainment & factual business manager at Mediacrest.
“We believe the format is closely linked to the needs, concerns and...
Designed as a primetime reality show, “El pueblo” has been structured as a social experiment, charting five families’ attempt to settle in an abandoned village, guided by the principles of sustainability and globally connected self-sufficiency.
The families’ will create their own rules, events and traditions, will initiate agriculture and livestock initiatives and start trading with nearby towns, sand later with the world. The twist: Only one winning family finally gets to stay in the village.
“Our goal is to provide the audience with content not only attractive in terms of television, but also that makes a social contribution,” said Daniel Domenjó, entertainment & factual business manager at Mediacrest.
“We believe the format is closely linked to the needs, concerns and...
- 4/17/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
A post-lockdown trend, unscripted commissioning has shot up from 32% of global commissions in fourth quarter 2019 to match scripted with 52% in 2022 Q4, according to Ampere Analysis.
The spike in Spain is even stronger: 2022 Q3 saw 166 unscripted titles announced, compared to 40 scripted, 1Q 2023 96 vs. 23.
As elsewhere, with fiction production costs soaring, unscripted has found a bigger demand among Spanish streamers and broadcasters, looking for less budget-heavy fare.
“Probably the pandemic oversized fiction. Now audiences are looking for a good time, opting for entertainment formats with less dense narratives,” argues Daniel Domenjó at Mediacrest, producer of Tve’s hit daily game show “El cazador” and new reality format “El pueblo.”
“Interest in non-fiction content has increased due to operators’ need to vary their offer,” argues Atresmedia Sales’ José Antonio Salso.
Scripted and unscripted contents today straddle free-to-air and streaming TV.
While linear TV operators back realities, talent and game shows and magazines, platforms push docu-series,...
The spike in Spain is even stronger: 2022 Q3 saw 166 unscripted titles announced, compared to 40 scripted, 1Q 2023 96 vs. 23.
As elsewhere, with fiction production costs soaring, unscripted has found a bigger demand among Spanish streamers and broadcasters, looking for less budget-heavy fare.
“Probably the pandemic oversized fiction. Now audiences are looking for a good time, opting for entertainment formats with less dense narratives,” argues Daniel Domenjó at Mediacrest, producer of Tve’s hit daily game show “El cazador” and new reality format “El pueblo.”
“Interest in non-fiction content has increased due to operators’ need to vary their offer,” argues Atresmedia Sales’ José Antonio Salso.
Scripted and unscripted contents today straddle free-to-air and streaming TV.
While linear TV operators back realities, talent and game shows and magazines, platforms push docu-series,...
- 4/14/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Should you reside in either Los Angeles or Orlando, you're lucky enough to call Universal's Halloween Horror Nights neighbor. I've attended both — spooky season isn't complete without a Horror Nights excursion. While living as an East Coaster, Universal Orlando was my first encounter with Universal's epic Halloween celebration filled with scare actors, delicious cauldron treats, and screams aplenty. It's been on my mind ever since.
Universal Hollywood is now practically in my backyard, yet I'm left yearning for Orlando's grand horror-fueled immersion every Horror Nights. Hollywood feels like the younger sibling paid less attention, while Orlando boasts and bellows Halloween excellence you can practically hear across the country.
Hollywood is the scrappier Horror Nights by necessity alone; Orlando spans roughly 541 acres, while Hollywood crams into a 400-acre space. Orlando's transformation into a playground for mutant candy armies and harvested masters of ceremonies is all-enveloping, while Hollywood opens some mazes...
Universal Hollywood is now practically in my backyard, yet I'm left yearning for Orlando's grand horror-fueled immersion every Horror Nights. Hollywood feels like the younger sibling paid less attention, while Orlando boasts and bellows Halloween excellence you can practically hear across the country.
Hollywood is the scrappier Horror Nights by necessity alone; Orlando spans roughly 541 acres, while Hollywood crams into a 400-acre space. Orlando's transformation into a playground for mutant candy armies and harvested masters of ceremonies is all-enveloping, while Hollywood opens some mazes...
- 9/16/2022
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
Movie titles produced by top Spanish broadcast network Mediaset España used to spark buzz at the Cannes film market every year, befitting a driving force of the Spanish film industry.
This year, however, like many other top European film production houses, Mediaset España is waiting on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to take the next steps in its theatrical release plans.
Films such as Jaume Balaguero’s TF1 Studio-sold “Way Down,” one of the company’s most anticipated titles of the year, is scheduled for a theatrical release this fall; and comedy “Operación Camarón,” handled internationally by Filmax, delayed its Spanish release from March 13 to Sept. 11.
“These are films for which we have strong audience expectations, and we want to protect them until we find the best scenario,” Mediaset España CEO Paolo Vasile said.
Although this year at Cannes virtual market there is no Mediaset España spotlight,...
This year, however, like many other top European film production houses, Mediaset España is waiting on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to take the next steps in its theatrical release plans.
Films such as Jaume Balaguero’s TF1 Studio-sold “Way Down,” one of the company’s most anticipated titles of the year, is scheduled for a theatrical release this fall; and comedy “Operación Camarón,” handled internationally by Filmax, delayed its Spanish release from March 13 to Sept. 11.
“These are films for which we have strong audience expectations, and we want to protect them until we find the best scenario,” Mediaset España CEO Paolo Vasile said.
Although this year at Cannes virtual market there is no Mediaset España spotlight,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Rolling off the success of “El Pueblo” on both Spain’s Amazon Prime Video and Telecinco, the main commercial channel of top Spanish broadcast network Mediaset España, the U.S. online giant has clinched pay/TV and Svod rights to four Mediaset España dramas and two docu series.
The deal was sealed between Amazon Prime Video and Mediterráneo Mediaset España Group, the broadcaster’s sales and distribution arm.
Announced Tuesday in Madrid, the agreement takes in the second season of rural relocation comedy series “El Pueblo,” whose Season 1 bowed May 14 last year on Amazon Prime Video, and then on Jan. 15 on Telecinco, to buoyant audience results.
“El Pueblo” turns on a group of urbanites who flee the city for different reasons – existential and economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose – and the conflict in the way of living between them and their new rural neighbors.
The deal was sealed between Amazon Prime Video and Mediterráneo Mediaset España Group, the broadcaster’s sales and distribution arm.
Announced Tuesday in Madrid, the agreement takes in the second season of rural relocation comedy series “El Pueblo,” whose Season 1 bowed May 14 last year on Amazon Prime Video, and then on Jan. 15 on Telecinco, to buoyant audience results.
“El Pueblo” turns on a group of urbanites who flee the city for different reasons – existential and economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose – and the conflict in the way of living between them and their new rural neighbors.
- 2/4/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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