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 can debut March. 9 on co-producer Canal 9, which commissioned this program. Produced by GB Media, drama tracks a famous '60s rock-band known as Los Sonicos (The Sonics) whose nights of debauchery arrived at a rapid finish when charming frontman Carlos Kloster (Mario Alarcon) falls right into a coma following a vehicle accident. Kloster awakens 43 years later to locate a drastically transformed world. Resides in Buenos Aires since 2008, BBC Worldwide's Latin America content and production unit continues to be co-creating a slew of unscripted BBC formats with GP Media, that includes a 35% stake. "We wish to transfer to drama production," stated Gareth Williams, senior Vice president of content and production, South Usa. BBC Worldwide may be the exclusive distributor for GP Media came from formats. Up to now they've co-created reality skeins "Vital Signs," in line with the BBC's "Make My Body System More youthful," for Chile's Mega TV "Finest Mexican," inspired through the BBC's "Finest Britain," for that History Funnel, Mexico and "Animania" (Animal Showtime), a comedy undertake BBC footage of creatures that are delivered voices, for Argentina's Canal 7. "Los Sonicos" is one kind of various formats BBC Worldwide will offer you the Latin American market in Cannes in the Mipcom TV sales mart, which begins on Monday. Included in this are detective comedy skein "Babylon" and "Summer time Nights," which follows the romantic entanglements of teens via a gamut of social networking, Skype, text texting and make contact with. Last Year, BBC Worldwide created another partnership in South america with indie producer Mixer, which is the owner of exclusive privileges to BBC formats. BBC Worldwide Content and Production is really a global production business with wholly possessed production offices in NY, L.A., Paris and Mumbai. Additionally, it works a network of production companies, with clothes in Perfume, Toronto, Moscow, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com