By John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent What’s the way forward for Spanish-speaking TV players in a post COVID-19 landscape?
Executives from four of the region’s biggest players – ViacomCBS, Spain’s Movistar Plus and RTVE, and Colombia’s Caracol Television – thrashed out possible scenarios on Tuesday at an Iberseries online panel.
Their answers are hardly industry footnotes. After English and Mandarin, Spanish-language scripted production now doubles French or German in volume of titles, according to a March 2020 Ampere Analysis study, a point picked up on the panel.
A post-COVID 19 future looks likely to be spoken rather more en español. Five tentative conclusions – and there was a fair degree of consensus – from the panel,
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