One of Mipcom’s major Sunday evening events, the Showcase drilled down on Globo format deals with SIC, Ay Yapim and Alpha TV as the Brazilian media giant rolls out sales and formats and forges strategic partnerships
\n\nGlobo has sold to the BBC “Blood Red – Under the Moonlight,” a teen werewolf/vampire love triangle thriller now bound for BBC iPlayer and BBC Three.
\n\nThe biggest new announcement at a packed Mipcom Globo Showcase on Sunday evening, the BBC deal marks a milestone for Globo streaming service Globoplay, the first time a Globoplay Original has been licensed to the BBC, whose acquisitions, as in the days of Nordic Noir still mark one gold standards for non-English-language fiction.
\n\n“Blood Red – Under the Moonlight” weighs in as a fantasy-adventure-thriller coming-of-age half-hour that marks a major step up in genre for Globoplay.
\n\nCreated and written by Claudia Sardinha (“Rensga Hits!”) and Rosane Swartman (“A Life Worth Living”), “Blood Red” is set and shot in southeast Minas Gerais’ stunning rolling forest hills. It also serves as a showcase of Globo’s ability to root universal drama series tropes in Brazil’s own realities, here stunning landscapes architecture, lore and nature, such as its maned wolves.
\n\n“The BBC…
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