Televisa preps English content

Mexico-based Televisa is to greenlight production on multiple English-language series, starting with a spy thriller starring Hemlock Grove actor Dougray Scott.

Duality focuses on an elite team of State Department, CIA and Mexican intelligence agents who wage war against villains operating out of Latin America.

Scott and Kirk Shaw (The Hurt Locker) of Odyssey will executive produce the project, which is based on an original story from writer-producer Barry Schkolnick.

Chris Philip, head of production and distribution for Televisa USA, and Eduardo Clemesha, Televisa’s general director of new content and formats, will also exec produce, along with Jorge Aragon.

“Our competitive advantage with unparalleled production capabilities and multiplatform networks gives us the scale to deliver the global market multiple high-quality series, and with creative casting we can target a powerful multicultural audience in the US,” said Philip.

Televisa said it plans to fuel its own original content demands as well as those from the growing global on-demand and traditional TV markets.