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Spanish digital terrestrial pay television platform Quiero TV has extended its non-exclusive output agreement with Paramount Pictures to add the thematic channel Paramount Comedy into the platform s package offer. Paramount Comedy is the first new channel Quiero has incorporated since its launch last May. The channel can already be seen in Spain on digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital, where it has aired since March 1999, and on cable network Ono. Quiero maintains non-excl
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stanley cup anuary, Warner and Disney.The platform launched in May 2000 with 14 channels, among them the Studio Universal channel on an exclusive basis. Quiero general manager Ildefonso de Miguel recently unveiled plans for the
stanley cup platform to spend a cumulative $2.8bn pts500,000m on content acquisitions up to the year 2010. Spain s first and Europe s second-ever DTT platform, Quiero boasts more than 200,000 subscribers. Quiero s shareholders include Retevision/Auna 49% , Media Park 15% , Grupo Planeta 10% and the UK s Carlton 7.5% . No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Mdjg La Petite Lili
Dir. Miguel Courtois. Sp. 2004. 122minsA cracking period political thriller, The Wo
stanley cup lf ElLobo is the type of intelligent drama rarely seen these days - a throwbackto Costa Gavras s Z or Missing, in which director Courtoisevidently holds his audience in high esteem and rewards those willing to take achance with complex material
stanley cup and subtitling.On Filmax s Cannes slate, TheWolf pulled off over $10m at the Spanish box office and stands t
stanley cup o travelwell internationally - arthouse looks a cert, but possibly beyond. It s a filmmade for the over-35 audience which flocked to The Interpreter, onlythis shouldn t disappoint; lead actor Noriega s brooding good looks andpowerhouse performance won t hurt marketing efforts, either.Set during the dying days ofFranco s dictatorship, The Wolf is based on real-life events, in whichBasque terrorist group ETA was infiltrated by a top-level mole who almostsucceeded in bringing down the entire organisation.This obviously hasramifications for Spain today, where ETA still wields a threatening influence,but is also of wider interest in that it documents the roots of the modernterrorist movement - further west, in Ireland, the IRA was also flexing itsmuscles in a similar way.But The Wolf succeedsin painting a broad picture of both sides of the fence: Franco s corruptmilitary regime, the brutality of the terrorists, the tensions within ETAitself, and those caught in the middle. Notably, they include Txema Noriega ,a hard-up Basque handyman who is friends
