January 30, 2019

DIRECTV Latin America and MEDIAPRO Group announce season two of the hit original series, Todo por el Juego

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Series renewal follows strong performance on DIRECTV’s linear and digital platforms

Great audience results and critical acclaim in Latin America

DIRECTV Latin America and Mediapro Group announced today that season two of Todo por el Juego will premiere in October 2019 on DIRECTV Latin America’s exclusive entertainment channel, OnDIRECTV. The channel’s #1 series during the premiere airing of its episodes, is a DIRECTV Original and also available via DIRECTV’s TV Everywhere platforms and on the DIRECTV 4K Ultra HD channel.

The second season comes after the series posted big numbers on DIRECTV’s outlets and in Mexico and after being recently released by Movistar in Spain.

Co-produced by MEDIAPRO Group and DIRECTV Latin America, the series is based on the novel written by Javier Tebas and Pedro Torrens, El Fútbol no es Así. Tebas is the President of Spain’s national sports association La Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (National Professional Football League), commonly LaLiga.

Todo por el Juego reveals the dark side of a fictionalized team in Spain where politics, passion and corruption play as big a role as the game on the field.  The scope of international intrigue expanded with key characters and storylines hailing from Americas making the second season of the series a content with an extraordinary international appeal.  As Spanish leading newspaper EL PAIS noted, “futbol is a business that unleashes passions and billions around the world and, therefore, stimulates greed…that’s Todo por el Juego.”

Showrunner/Director Daniel Calparsoro (“Cien años de perdón”, “Salto al vacío”, “A ciegas”, “Pasajes”, “Guerreros”) returns at the helm as do stars Roberto Enriquez (Mariano Hidalgo) and Patricia Vico (Nuria Ballesteros).  New characters from Argentina, Mexico and the United States, among other countries, will be introduced to what promises to be another riveting season.

Imagina International Sales will distribute the second season of the series.

Willard Tressel, General Manager of OnDIRECTV and Co-Executive Producer said, “we’re thrilled to bring an entire new season of Todo por el Juego and continue the excitement of the series in response to the call of fans in the region.  I’m also thrilled to work with our partners, MEDIAPRO Group, on the development, production and distribution.  We’ve got a true dream team.”

Javier Méndez, Content Director of Grupo MEDIAPRO added “we are really proud of the global success obtained with this passionate thriller and we are willing to repeat the whole experience in this second season with our excellent partner DIRECTV”.

 

About DIRECTV

DIRECTV delivers the best entertainment experience. Every day, DIRECTV subscribers in Latin America enjoy quality and sound 100% digital, industry leading customer service, state-of-the-art technology, unmatched HD content that includes original and exclusive series, and complete coverage of major events, including sports and entertainment, as well as comprehensive programming packages, and the possibility of watching content on different screens whenever and wherever the users want it. For more information, visit directvla.com

About OnDIRECTV

OnDIRECTV, it is the exclusive channel to DIRECTV subscribers. The channel is recognized as a showcase for acclaimed international series, documentaries and concerts with top 20 ratings and top three in the general entertainment genre. The channel’s first original scripted series, LA CASA DEL MAR, was nominated by the International Emmys as BEST DRAMA in 2016.

About MEDIAPRO GROUPMEDIAPRO Group, with 54 offices distributed across 4 continents, is a global leader in the creation, production and distribution of multimedia contents. The Group’s content division develops, creates, produces and distributes contents in every genre and every format, for television, cinema or exhibits. In the field of TV fiction, MEDIAPRO has collaborated with creators like Ran Tellem, David Simon, Paolo Sorrentino, Daniel Calparsoro, Daniel Écija, Javier Olivares, Fernando González Molina, Eduardo Sacheri, Michel Gaztambide, Àlex and David Pastor or Daniel Burman. The company has recently developed several productions for HBO (“The Young Pope”), Netflix (“Edha”, “Fe de etarras”) and Amazon (“Six Dreams” and “All or Nothing: Manchester City”), DirectTV (“Todo por el juego”), Fox (“Vis a vis”), Viacom (“N00Bees”), YLE (“The Paradise”) and Disney (“Cazadores de milagros”) and has announced agreements with VICE Studios, Pol-ka, Turner and Televisa. As far as movies are concerned, MEDIAPRO produces contents in Europe, the US and Latin America with directors such as Woody Allen, Fernando León Aranoa, Isabel Coixet, Patricio Guzmán, Manuel Huerga, Roman Polanski, Ernesto Daranas or Gaston Duprat, among others.

About IMAGINA INTERNATIONAL SALES

Imagina International Sales is Grupo Mediapro’s international distributor arm. It represents more than 50 production companies, some of which belong to MEDIAPRO, as well as some independent production companies who authorize the sales management of their products to Imagina.

The distributor has more than 3,500 clients around the world, including fiction and entertainment production companies, movie and TV distributors, public and private TV networks and VOD platforms. Moreover, the company participates in all international sales markets and in all coproduction forums.

The company’s diversity and its catalog cater to all our clients’ needs. Imagina’s content has been exported to more than 150 countries thanks to more than 1,400 agreements since the company was founded.

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