“La Favorita 1922” has pre-sold 20-plus territories in Europe and the Americas, together with a pick-up by PBS streaming service Walter Presents for U.S. and Canada, Spain’s Mediterráneo Mediaset España Group  introduced Monday. 

The announcement got here simply hours earlier than the sequence’ March 17 industrial bow on Telecinco, Spanish broadcast community’s Mediaset España’s primary channel, and days earlier than “La Favorita 1922” hits Collection Mania’s Discussion board over March 24-27 as Mediterráneo’s banner gross sales title.

In additional offers, Mediterráneo, the worldwide distribution arm of Mediaset España, has closed Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay with Move, Telecom Argentina telco  streaming service, whereas licensing to Belgium (Proximus), Lithuania (Lithuanian Nationwide Radio and TV), and Poland, one of the crucial sturdy of markets in Europe.

Set in a 1922 Madrid of typically beautiful Belle Epoque structure, “La Favorita 1922” follows Seville’s Marquise Elena de Valmonte, who battles to show an deserted restaurant into the capital’s most interesting eatery.  

Starring Verónica Sánchez (“The Pier,” “Sky Rojo”), “La Favorita 1922” marks the primary manufacturing between Mediaset España and Bambú Producciones, behind milestone Spanish sequence “Grand Lodge” and “Velvet” and Netflix’s first sequence in Spain, “Cable Ladies.” 

That exhibits, in each the meticulous, crafted manufacturing requirements, a Bambú Producciones hallmark, and the style cocktail, additionally typical of Bambú and certainly a lot Spanish fiction,meanng the narrative by no means rests.  

“Love, intrigue, humor and a contact of thriller come collectively in a rigorously crafted manufacturing,” Ramón Campos, head of Bambú Producciones, instructed Selection final October as “La Favorita 1922” launched at Mipcom. 

Episode 1 activates Elena’s determined escape from Seville to Madrid and first steps in liberation, but it surely additionally contains a homicide and climaxes with a kidnapping. 

Opinions and social media reactions have been upbeat. “La Favorita 1922’ recuperates, over stoves, the essence of “Velvet,’” introduced top of the range newspaper “El País.”

“It’s beautifully produced with unbelievable units,” Mediterráneo CEO Ghislain Barrois added. “At certainly one of our first conferences, I requested about manufacturing, they usually introduced me a e-book that was just like the Yellow Pages, like 500 pages thick with each blueprint and each set element outlined.”

The sequence units, together with the restaurant, occupied over 2,000 sq. meters (21,500 sq. toes). It required 500 costumes, many handmade particularly for the manufacturing.

“It’s a pleasure so as to add ‘La Favorita 1922’ to Mediterráneo’s gross sales catalog. This sequence completely enhances our present lineup, as we didn’t beforehand have a interval drama. Furthermore, the truth that it’s a Bambú manufacturing, with its famend hallmark of high quality, excited us from the very starting,” mentioned Silvia Cotino, deputy director of gross sales and enterprise improvement at Mediterráneo. “We’re assured that it’s going to turn out to be a key title in our catalog, additional strengthening our presence within the worldwide market.” 

“The good worldwide curiosity sparked by ‘La Favorita 1922’ is unprecedented and showcases its monumental potential,” added Rocío Cachero, worldwide gross sales supervisor at Mediterráneo. “We’re assured that that is simply the beginning of a really promising worldwide journey.”