Globo’s ‘Under Pressure’ is the most watched show in Argentina in its premiere on Telefe
09-01-2019
The second season of the series is in the catalog that the Brazilian company will take to NATPE 2019
The award-winning ‘Under Pressure’ premiered on January 1st on Telefe and became the most-watched show in the Argentinean free TV on this date. The series, which offers a high-voltage portrait of tragedies from patients and doctors in a hospital with precarious funds in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, captured the public's attention and became the most-viewed show in Argentina again on January 3rd and 4th. On the premiere week, the series was featured every day among the five most-watched shows in Argentina. With nine episodes, the series ‘Under Pressure’ airs every day on the channel’s primetime slot.
A hit also in Brazil, ‘Under Pressure’ has been recognized by the industry for the quality and the ability to impact the audience that its stories have. The first season received four awards at the Festival International de Programmes Audivisuels (Fipa), was exhibited in major audiovisual festivals and has attracted the attention from key industry players, such as Sky Italia and the MBC Group, from the Middle East. All that success has ensured a continuation, which is part of the catalog that the company will present at NATPE 2019.
Like in Brazil, in addition to entertaining, in Argentina the series also threw light on socially relevant issues, such as corruption in the healthcare system and violence against women. In one of the actions, prepared for the Telefe website, the company asked the public to report cases of gender violence.
Directed by Andrucha Waddington and Mini Kerti, ‘Under Pressure’ is a co-production from Globo with Conspiração Filmes, fruit of the long-feature film by Andrucha Waddington and created by Luiz Noronha, Claudio Torres and Renato Fagundes from an original idea by Mini Kerti, freely inspired by the book “Sob Pressão – A rotina de guerra de um médico brasileiro” (“Under Pressure – The war routine of a Brazilian physician”), by Marcio Maranhão. The series is written by Jorge Furtado, who writes the episodes with Lucas Paraizo, Antonio Prata and Marcio Alemão, with medical consulting provided by Marcio Maranhão.
Here is the trailer of the first season of ‘Under Pressure’.
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