Movistar+ takes No More Boys And Girls to Spain
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| 29 May 2019

UK originator and distributor DRG has closed a deal for the factual format No More Boys and Girls, with Banijay’s Dlo/Magnolia, who will produce a five-part series for the Movistar+ subscription video-on-demand service in Spain.

Originally produced by Outline Productions for BBC Two as a two-part mini-series, No More Boys and Girls argues that being born a boy or a girl largely pre-determines the life you will end up experiencing. Using a pioneering approach from Sweden, in the original, Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim takes over a class of 30 seven-year-olds and creates a gender-neutral school that turns conventions on their head so that, for example, not just boys play football. The programme is to be remade in Spain as Ni Superhéroes Ni Princesas.

Eight months ago, a similar deal was announced for No More Boys and Girls to be made in Germany by Bavaria Entertainment for ZDF Neo, with an option also granted to Blue Circle in the Netherlands.

“No More Boys and Girls is a brilliant factual format that neatly and credibly taps in to, and challenges, the zeitgeist issues around gender and the roles it plays in society,” remarked Amparo Castellano, director of entertainment at Dlo/Magnolia. “We are thrilled to be bringing DRG’s enlightening and entertaining series to the screen with Movistar+ and cannot wait to see the reaction from Spanish audiences when the series is made available.”

“We are delighted that No More Boys and Girls is being remade for Movistar+,” added Adam Barth, DRG’s commercial director who closed the deal. “In Dlo/Magnolia, the company behind ratings-winning local adaptations of The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds and Supernanny, we have found a production partner that is not only at the top of its game, but one that is also experienced at working with children and really understands the sensitive subject matter at hand.”