The eighth edition of Spain’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, one of Spain’s foremost TV development and production forums, played out in the historical city of Toledo over June 18-21.
Known for the massive Catedral, hunking Alcázar castle and higgeldy-piggeldy old quarter back street, history weighs heavily in Toledo. There was nothing arcane about Conecta Fiction, however, which captured the current contradictions of the international TV industry. 10 takeaways:
A Busy and Buzzy 2024 Conecta Fiction
2024’s Conecta Fiction was busy and buzzy. Reasons abound. “The death of Peak TV isseverelyoverstated,” Omdia’s María Rua Aguete proclaimed in a Global Trends presentation at Conecta Fiction. At over $40 billion, original spend by the U.S. top four – Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney – is the second biggest year on record, only bested by 2022. There is a still a huge international demand for Spanish TV. In April 2024, more hours of original Spanish content were watched in the U.S. (22.5 million) and Brazil (18.1 million) than in Spain (13.5 million). The meet was energized by a full turn-out of top TV players from Brazil and Portugal, their slates fair bursting with new projects.
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