BBC America tries Latam drama

BBC Worldwide is creating its first commissioned drama in Latin America, "Los Sonicos," via its exclusive partnership with Argentine indie GP Media. The 12-parter is shooting in Buenos Aires and may debut March. 9 on co-producer Canal 9, which commissioned the program. Created by GB Media, drama tracks a famous '60s rock-band referred to as Los Sonicos (The Sonics) whose nights of debauchery showed up in a rapid finish when charming frontman Carlos Kloster (Mario Alarcon) falls in to a coma carrying out a vehicle accident. Kloster energizes 43 years later to discover a drastically changed world. Resides in Buenos Aires since 2008, BBC Worldwide's Latin America content and production unit remains co-developing a slew of unscripted BBC formats with GP Media, which includes a 35% stake. "You want to transfer to drama production," mentioned Gareth Williams, senior V . p . of content and production, Brazilian. BBC Worldwide might be the exclusive distributor for GP Media originated from formats. So far they have co-produced reality skeins "Vital Signs," good BBC's "Make My Figure Youthful,Inch for Chile's Mega TV "Finest Mexican," inspired with the BBC's "Finest Britain," for your History Funnel, Mexico and "Animania" (Animal Showtime), a comedy undertake BBC footage of animals which are shipped voices, for Argentina's Canal 7. "Los Sonicos" is a type of various formats BBC Worldwide will give you the Latin American market in Cannes within the Mipcom TV sales mart, which starts on Monday. Incorporated within this are detective comedy skein "Babylon" and "Summer season Nights," which follows the romantic entanglements of teens using a gamut of social media, Skype, text texting and speak to. This Past Year, BBC Worldwide produced another partnership in South usa with indie producer Mixer, which has exclusive rights to BBC formats. BBC Worldwide Content and Production can be a global production business with wholly possessed production offices in NY, L.A., Paris and Mumbai. Furthermore, it really works a network of production companies, with clothes in Perfume, Toronto, Moscow, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com