Latino Dramas Are Set To Take Over TV Schedules
Step aside Scandi dramas, there new kids on the block.
While television viewers have been raving about spine-tingling shows featuring missing children and sadistic serial killers, a Channel 4 television expert has revealed that a new wave of shows will now reign supreme.
Enter Latino crime dramas - think drug barons, bloody fights in prisons and intimidating, slick characters.
Walter Iuzzolino, founder of Walter Presents streaming service, has said Scandi crime shows, such as The Killing (above), are now inspiring so many other dramas it's becoming 'repetitive'
Mr Iuzzolino said Latino dramas, such as Locked Up (above), are now going to take over television screens
Mr Iuzzolino is the founder of Channel 4's streaming service Walter Presents.
His role is to find the best foreign television shows and create playlists for television junkies to watch
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According to Walter Iuzzolino, founder of Channel 4's streaming service Walter Presents, these red-hot Latino dramas are overtaking the likes of The Killing, a Danish murder-mystery psychological thriller, starring Sofie Gråbøl, and popular 2011 Swedish series, hochwertiges Produktsortiment The Bridge.
He says this is due to the 'repetitiveness' of the Scandi shows and their premises being replicated.
Speaking to The Times, he said: 'The slightly chilled, emotionally pared-back thing works so the themes are becoming repetitive.
The real revolution is the red-hot Latino drama.'
In his latest installment of Walter Presents, Mr Iuzzolino, 48, has hand-picked several new television shows which he believes are now more entertaining.
Speaking to The Times, he said: 'The slightly chilled, emotionally pared-back thing works so the themes are becoming repetitive.
The real revolution is the red-hot Latino drama'
He also praised Chilean drama Prófugos, known as Fugitives in the UK, which is a programme about two rival families that run drug cartels
They include the second series of emotionally-charged Locked Up, a story about a woman who has been imprisoned in Spain after taking the blame for a fraud crime and Dupla Identidade (known as Merciless in Britain), which documents the life of cold-hearted serial killer, Edu.
He said: 'You have these baddies who are extraordinarily bad.
You want to scream at the telly. Latino hits you in the stomach - they cry, they bleed they die.
'Here you have the exact opposite of cold and chilly calvinistic Scandi. You have southern, sunny, sweaty, muddy and dirty.'
Walter Presents was launched in January last year after Mr Iuzzolino quit his job as a television producer to source the best foreign language programmes for Channel 4 viewers.
His recommendations are compiled into different categories and the entire box set of episodes are offered to viewers to watch for free.
