Set at the Most Remote Place on Earth, ‘The Head’ Season 2 Scales Up, Delivers Decapitation, Mystery and Sales
14.07.2022 - 17:29
/ variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe setting for “The Head” Season 2, the second part of one of Spain’s biggest breakout hits, is a massive ocean freighter at the Pacific Ocean’s Nemo Point, the most remote place on earth, 1,681 miles from land.The set for many of its interiors, including the freighter’s high-tech research lab, is slightly more accessible – Villaviciosa de Odón, 8 miles from central Madrid. A set visit on Wednesday said much about one of Spain’s biggest upcoming TV swings, now building into a franchise.
Following, six takeaways: Sell it Again, SamMany series only move into profit in their second season. That’s most probably not the case of “The Head,” whose first instalment has already hit gold dust, selling to over 90 countries, including HBO Max for the U.S, for producer The Mediapro Studio.
Other buyers take in best-of-class players: HBO (Latin America and HBO Asia), Starzplay (U.K., Germany), Canal Plus (France), Amazon’s Prime Video (Italy, Netherlands), NENT (Scandinavia), SBS (Australia) and Orange TV (Spain). This powerful roll-out certainly has had a knock-on for Season 2 whose sales are going “phenomenally well” with frequent repeat business, Laura Fernández Espeso, CEO of The Mediapro Studio, told Variety during the set visit.
“The Head” S2 is produced once more in association with Hulu Japan. Fernández Espeso added that “The Head” forms part of a larger growth move into English-language production, which includes a U.S. show with John Turturro – “We have a fantastic show which we hope to produce for next year” – and eight titles in various phases of development set up with “highly relevant” U.K.-based writers.