Warner Bros Discovery Names Max Spain Scripted Originals Chief

Warner Bros Discovery simply named Jose Maria Caro as Director of Unique Manufacturing for Max in Spain.

Caro will lead on scripted originals coming from the streamer, overseeing growth and manufacturing. This comes after Max accomplished its European rollout in June 2024 and at a time when WBD says it’s “strengthening its native language providing in Spain.”

Caro has been within the function in an off-the-cuff foundation since becoming a member of WBD in April 2024, however has now formally taken on the submit after Alberto Carullo, VP of Productions for Italy and Iberia at Max, left WBD to hitch Mediaset.

On Caro’s slate will likely be originals similar to When No one Sees Us and Rage, each of which premiere later this yr. His crew has an “increasing” Spanish-language slate with “a number of tasks at the moment in growth,” in response to WBD.

Caro will report on to Laura Carafoli, Warner Bros. Discovery’s SVP Content material Networks & Streaming, Native Productions for Italy & Iberia. Spanish-language Discovery TV networks and Max unscripted originals will proceed to be oversee by Bibiana González, Director, Content material Networks & Streaming, Non-Scripted Unique Manufacturing.

Having labored on the likes of Amazon Studios, Caro is taken into account one in all Spain’s most-experienced scripted execs with greater than 25 years on the clock. After spending a number of years within the Center East and Asia Pacific, the place he labored with the likes of Mediapro ME, MBC and Originals Medias Group, he joined Buendía Studios, the place he exec-produced reveals similar to La Templanza for Prime Video, and La Cocinera de Castamar, Señor Dame Paciencia and Los Protegidos, El Regreso for Atresmedia.

He later turned Head of Spanish Unique Sequence at Amazon Studios (now Amazon MGM Studios) and labored on the likes of Los Farad, Reina Roja, Sin Huellas and Romancero earlier than exiting for WBD.

He’s stepping to the recent seat at Max at a time the place Spanish-language originals are doing gangbuster numbers for streamers, with the likes of Berlin and Culpa Tuya breaking out world wide.

Spain was one of many few European territories that survived a significant WBD pullback from streaming originals in 2022, and went on to order When No one Sees Us as its first native collection a yr later.