Patricio Wills, president of Televisa Estudios, presented the fiction content they will have during 2019 and in his speech made it clear that the world has changed and Televisa is changing.
“We have the commitment —as Televisa— to show people all the options”. He explained that they are creating a robust development department with new formats, short, medium and long. “We not only have telenovelas”. He highlighted genres such as fiction, comedy and adapted literature, among others, and announced they are working on the preparation of several co-productions with global players of the content industry, such as Sony, Netflix, TNT, Endemol Shine, and Amazon Prime Video.
The offer they presented includes Los Protegidos, which they will start shooting in November. It is about a family with special powers, “a bit of science fiction”. In the realm of bioseries, they have the life of Silvia Pinal, and regarding melodrama with comedy: Doña Flor y Sus Dos Maridos.
Other contents were La Reina Soy Yo and Amar a Muerte, that is ready and will be launched in a couple of weeks on Channel 2 at 9:30pm.
On the other hand, he commented that they also have El Último Dragón, the project written by Arturo Pérez Reverte para Televisa, which they have been developing as one of the most ambitious productions. A W Studios productions, it was shot in Japan, the US, Spain, and Mexico and has a contemporary vision of the world of international crime.
To end his presentation, he spoke about Fábrica de Sueños, the new project, a reflexion on Televisa from the inside, that will give classic Televisa stories a contemporary shift.
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