Making additional inroads into markets in Central and Jap Europe and past, Studiocanal, one in every of Europe’s high production-distribution-international gross sales powerhouses, has clinched additional gross sales on premium day by day drama “The Vow” (“La Promesa”), closing Poland and two Baltic States, in addition to France.
Produced by Spain’s Bambú Producciones (“Velvet,” “Cable Women”), a Studiocanal firm, Studiocanal and nationwide Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, “The Vow” has been acquired by Polish pubcaster TVP Poland, state-backed community ERR Estonia and state-owned LTV Latvia.
In further new gross sales, Dubai TV has closed rights to MENA territories. French free-to-air channel C8, owned like Studiocanal by the Canal+ Group, will start airing the sequence in July.
Mediaset Italy has now acquired all three seasons of “The Vow,” as has Dori Media Israel and Finnish state community YLE.
HRT Croatia and LTV Lithuania and industrial community KTV Kosovo, which have broadcast Season 1, have signed up for additional seasons.
Created by Josep Cister Rubio (“Acacias 38,” “Dos Vidas”) and written by Cister Rubio, Susana Prieto, Ruth García and Carmen Llano, “The Vow” begins in 1913 as Jana, a maid on the declining however nonetheless ruthless home of Luján seeks revenge for the homicide of her mom. What Jana doesn’t anticipate, nonetheless, is that she is going to fall in love with Manuel, son of the Depend of Lujan, who swears his love for her however can’t publicly decide to her, given the category gulf.
Offers are introduced on the primary day of NATPE Budapest, and simply after the conclusion of Spain’s Conecta Fiction.
Additionally they come after “The Vow” has punched sterling scores efficiency the world over. In Spain, the place it launched on Jan. 12, 2023 on RTVE’s La1, its 14.2% share on June 5 this month was the second finest within the sequence’ historical past and 5.1 proportion factors over La1’s channel common in Might.
In Latin America, the place RTVE offered “The Vow” to HBO Max, because of No. 1 or No. 2 performances in close to all territories, the sequence ranked No. 4 amongst all Max sequence worldwide on June 23.
Headed by Ramón Campos, Bambú Producciones has launched a number of milestone revolutions in Spanish TV: the introduction of a U.S. tempo iton free-to-air Spanish primetime exhibits (“Desaparecida,” 2007); direct sale of a Spanish unique to Latin America with out want for dubbing into impartial Spanish (“Gran Lodge,” 2011-13); the creation of free-to-air sequence which channel the fixed twists and turns and surprises of melodrama in exhibits of premium manufacturing values of cable TV (“Velvet,” 2014-16 ).
In “The Vow,” empowered by muscular financing from RTVE and Studiocanal, Bambú has produced a premium day by day drama not solely typically shot on location however very just lately together with scenes set in WW1.
Manufacturing of “The Vow” Season 3 is in progress, starring Ana Garcés, Arturo Sancho (“Heirs to the Land)”, Eva Martín (“Amar es para siempre”), Manuel Regueiro (“Acacias 38”) María Castro (“Seis Hermanas”) and Antonio Velázquez (“Cable Women,” “Tierra de lobos”).
“Central & Jap Europe continues to be a vibrant marketplace for day by day sequence, with ‘The Vow’ interesting to many and attracting loyal audiences throughout the area,” stated Sarah Mottershead, VP gross sales, Studiocanal.
“It’s a compelling, prime quality manufacturing embracing romance, thriller and household relationships all set in opposition to an exquisite backdrop with shiny interval particulars,” she added. “These qualities, mixed with distinctive writing and performing expertise, make it an actual scores winner with viewers. We’re thrilled to have a 3rd season in manufacturing able to ship much more irresistible storylines for this charming long-running drama.”
“‘The Vow’ is exhibiting very constant and constructive ranking dynamics and it’s turning into one of the in style telenovelas that’s been broadcast on LTV in recent times,” enthused Zane Valeniece, head of acquisitions at LTV Latvia.
She continued: “LTV broadcasts prime quality telenovelas at 10:30 am from Monday till Friday and it’s additionally an necessary content material on the LTV digital platform. The present, which gives a wealthy storyline with superb actors and filming places, provides an thrilling and powerful day by day behavior for the viewers.”
