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Shifting his focus from dog whispering, Cesar Millan has signed on to host The Messenger, a six-part series with a focus on conservationists who work to save the world’s most critically endangered animals. Wildlife specialists Boréales and AB Productions produced the original French format and are teaming on the…

Starz in getting into the telenovela business. The premium cabler said at TCA today that it is working with Lionsgate and Televisa USA to develop Teresa, a serialized drama based on the popular Mexican series. Carlos Portugal (East Los High) will create the series and serve as showrunner. Teresa focuses on an…

Continuing its push into scripted programming, Televisa USA is partnering with Atalaya Productions to develop Aztecs as a TV series, based on Daniel Peters’ critically acclaimed book The Luck Of Huemac. Michael Chernuchin (Marco Polo, Black Sails) has signed on as showrunner of the English-language series. The series…

Charo is set to star in and produce Charo In Charge, a reality series that will follow her and her eccentric family’s adventures, for Televisa USA. No premiere date has been set. The series is centered on the multi-generational family’s life in their Beverly Hills compound. "We love Beverly Hills but I think we are…

Televisa USA has put together Gran Hotel, an English-language adaptation of the popular Spanish series. 24 and The Kennedys executive producer Stephen Kronish will write the project, which will move the setting for the mystery drama from 1905 Spain to pre-Castro Havana. In the new version, following his sister's…

Universal Cable Prods has partnered with Televisa USA, a division of the Mexican media company Televisa, to co-produce two drama series based on Latin American properties: Pantera, based on the popular 1970s Mexican comic book, and Allies, an adaptation of the Argentinian series Aliados. The latter will be written…

Televisa USA is bolstering its domestic and international English-language production and distribution output, tapping Sierra/Engine Television CEO Chris Philip to head its new global distribution and production unit. He will work closely with Televisa USA Chief Creative Officer Michael Garcia and Chief of Operations…

Call it the Fifty Shades of Grey effect. Televisa USA has acquired the English-language television and digital rights to Anne Rice’s bestselling The Sleeping Beauty series of erotic novels. Rice will executive produce with Oscar-nominated producer Rachel Winter (Dallas Buyers Club); Endemol North America…

Veteran TV executive and producer and writer J.J. Jamieson has been named head of production for South Shore Television, the U.S. joint venture of Grupo Televisa and Lionsgate. He will report to Televisa USA Chief Creative Officer Michael Garcia and Lionsgate EVP Television Chris Selak, who just re-upped her contract…