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HBO Max orders first unscripted series in Mexico with “The Great Bake Off” Streaming service HBO Max has struck a deal to license the Love Productions format for a local Mexican version of The Great Bake Off.
The show will be HBO Max’s first . May 31, 2021
Streaming service HBO Max has struck a deal to license the Love Productions format for a local Mexican version of
The Great Bake Off.
The show will be HBO Max’s first original unscripted series in Mexico. The 10-part series is currently in production in Mexico City and will be produced by WarnerMedia Latin America, which has previously adapted the show in Argentina and Chile.
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HBO Max Adapting Bake Off in Mexico
The Great Bake Off format to HBO Max in Latin America.
The Great Bake Off will mark the first original unscripted production for the streaming service in Mexico. The ten-part Mexican adaptation will be a celebrity version, with famous local faces competing to be crowned best celebrity amateur baker. The series is currently in production in Mexico City.
The treatment is being produced by WarnerMedia Latin America, which previously adapted local versions of the format in Argentina and Chile.
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The agreement makes Mexico the fifth Latin American country to adapt the format.
Winning Channel 4 format Surviving The Stone Age’s producer Natalie Wilkinson
Commercially funded UK pubcaster Channel 4 took home three prizes at the annual International Format Awards, held digitally this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Surviving the Stone Age, from Renegade Pictures and Motion Content Group for Channel 4, took home the Best Factual Entertainment prize at the online event, hosted by C21Media in association with Frapa, EMC and MipFormats.
In the C4 show, which is being shopped by Passion Distribution at this week’s digital MipTV, eight experts journey across one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses for a month, using Stone Age tribe methods of survival.
Channel 4 scoops Format Awards trio c21media.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from c21media.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.