EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has placed a big bet on daily drama with the launch of Return to Las Sabinas.
The first five instalments dropped today in Spain, as well as on Disney+ around the world and Hulu in the U.S. The remaining 65 parts will be stripped throughout the week with new eps released weekday mornings. Soapy daily dramas and telenovelas move the dial across swathes of the TV world, but Return to Las Sabinas, from Diagonal and commissioned by Disney+ in Spain, is the first series of its kind in the daily drama space created for a major subs-based streamer.
Yesterday, on the eve of the launch, Disney+ programming boss Sofía Fábregas, creator and showrunner Eulàlia Carillo, and director Jordi Frades, clued Deadline in on the buzzy project.
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“We said: ‘Nobody is streaming a daily show,’” says Fábregas, VP,
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