John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “The Head,” The Mediapro Studio’s biggest hit, will have a third season, Ran Tellem, TMS head of international content development, confirmed Tuesday at Iberseries & Industria Platino. “‘The Head’ started out something like four years ago as a limited series only for six episodes and now it’s going into third season, so you might say we never lived up to our promises,” Tellem joked on stage at an early Iberseries panel, entitled Creative Content Strategies, where he shared the stage with former Netflix international head Erik Barmack, now at L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content.
The Mediapro Studio will produce ‘The Head,’ Season 3 out of Spain. Beyond that, Tellem gave few details. The series is being written by writers from four countries in three different continents. “What we do each season in order to keep the show advancing and evolving is to change the team of writers, Tellem commented.
Otherwise ever one working on the series is Spanish, he added. The other stellar exception to that is the cast. Tellem screened a short sequence from “The Head,” Season 2 which featured actors from Germany, France, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and China, all reacting to the discovery of a dead body, speaking English with accents. “We had actors from more than 10 countries in Season 2, and we’re going the same direction in Season 3.
Some years ago people used to refer to this as Europudding and we would like to look at it as Europe, haute cuisine. We’re doing exactly the opposite.
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