The new 700 sqm room combines the latest technology and exhibition content with 14th century medieval walls
The Abbey of Montserrat has officially opened the new Immersive Space of the Museum of Montserrat, a 700 sqm room where technology and sensory experiences bring alive the history of monastic life, Benedictine values, and religious expression. The Immersive Space, launched as part of the monastery's millennium celebrations, is a joint creation of the Abbey of Montserrat and Mediapro Exhibitions, the division of GRUP MEDIAPRO specializing in the creation and management of museum projects. Mediapro Exhibitions was responsible for the design, production and execution of the project.
The space is located beneath the Santa Maria Square in an annex of the Museum of Montserrat called the Room of the 14th Century Walls. This subterranean room of major historical importance houses medieval walls dating from the 14th century that were unearthed in the 1920s by the honorable architect Puig i Cadafalch.
The new room is organized around four different themes. The first is Hospitality, which emphasizes the monastery’s spirit of welcome and harnesses a split-flap display, interactive columns, projections and soundproof booths to teach visitors about its past and present, as well as various representations of the Virgin of Montserrat and the Escolania (boys’ choir). The second theme is Community, where audiovisual, table-based and interactive displays explain the history of the room’s walls, the activities of the community and who Saint Benedict of Nursia was. The third, Spirituality, is a major immersive audiovisual installation spanning the key concepts of Christianity; while the forth, Hope, consists of a reactive screen in the shape of a baptismal font that winds up the tour on a note of hope and rebirth.
All visitors can visit the new Immersive Space as part of admission to the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Montserrat during its usual opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 10am to 5:45pm.
Five of this year’s flagship projects by GRUP MEDIAPRO's events agency won industry recognition
Mediapro Events, GRUP MEDIAPRO's events agency, has walked away with 12 FIP awards at the International Festival of Creativity, Innovation and Events. The group’s work received multiple accolades, picking up one “Gran Prix”, two gold, six silver and three bronze awards at the event, held last weekend in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The judges praised the group’s creativity, organization and production as displayed at major international events over the course of this year, awarding it a prestigious “Gran Prix” prize for Best Product Launch for the Coca-Cola Europacific Partners event, which also garnered a bronze award for Best Design and Decoration. Mediapro Events’ work at the Latin GRAMMY Premiere and The Person of the Year Gala (Seville, 2023) won five awards: two gold awards, for best cultural event and for best design and decoration; two silver awards, for the best celebrity event and for the best gala event; and one bronze award, in the best musical and artistic event category. The 2023 edition was the very first time that the Latin Recording Academy chose to hold the annual awards outside the United States and Mediapro Events mobilized a large team to ensure its success.
The FIP judges also recognized GRUP MEDIAPRO’s organization and production of the Disney centenary celebration at the Teatro Real in Madrid (silver award for best cultural event) and its work at the Repsol Book Fair (silver awards for best children's event; best interactive event; and best stand, backdrop and special project); as well as the agency's role in the production of the Mahou San Miguel Foundation graduation ceremony (bronze award for the best cause-related marketing initiative).
Mediapro Events thus closes out a year of stand-out productions with its work honored at various national and international award ceremonies. In addition to its success at FIP, in 2024 the group won six Eventoplus awards, one MID Tech award and six AEVEA awards.
The league has added a new title sponsor and will feature three season splits
The Superliga Domino’s League of Legends, the official league in Spain of the Riot Games game organized by LVP (GRUP MEDIAPRO), this week presented its 2025 season in an event which took place in Madrid in the number one e-sports retail oulet Game and featured representatives from the entire e-sports community from across the country. In 2025, the longest-running competition in Europe will see three seasons (winter, spring and summer) and will culminate with a live final four shoot-out in the Spanish capital.
As happens in the LEC, the national season will also feature three splits: winter, spring and summer. In each of them, the ten teams will play each other once in the Bo1 format (best of 1), with the top 8 teams going through to the next phase. The second phase will follow the Swiss model, teams which lose two matches will be automatically knocked out and the teams which win two matches will go straight through to the next round. Both the semi-finals and the final of each split will be played over the best of five maps.
The new format will come to a close at the end of August with the four teams with most points over the three seasons qualifying directly for the final four which will be played in Madrid at a venue to be announced in the coming weeks. The end-of-season finale won’t just be the three matches: LVP will convert the weekend into a huge League of Legends party which in addition to the competition itself will also feature other activities for the community as well as a whole host of surprises which will be revealed over the coming months.
Another of the new features which was presented by LVP in Madrid in Game is the agreement reached with Domino’s making them the title sponsor of the Superliga. After ten years of Domino’s being associated with LVP, the brand has decided to take the next step by becoming title sponsor of the national competition and will be the headline sponsor for the upcoming Superliga 2025 season. The 2025 season along with Domino’s will also feature sponsors such as KITKAT, MediaMarkt, Cacaolat, Norauto, Universae and Air Europa.
The changes won’t just be affecting the competition and sponsors but also the channels broadcasting the Superliga Domino’s. From 2025, in addition to the LVP Twitch channel, which continue to be the lead platform, the competition will also be shown on stand-out League of Legends platforms in Spain such as Esportmaníacos, Javier “Toad” Cepero, Manute and Jaume “MindFreak” Marcet. The teams will also continue to have the option of showing their own games.
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The final season of the series will drop on December 19 on MAX United States, Spain, Portugal and Latin America
‘The Head 3’, the final season of ‘The Head’ trilogy, is set to make its international debut on December 19 on MAX, with a simultaneous launch in the United States, Latin America, Spain and Portugal. (Due to the time difference, it will be available in the latter two countries as of the 20th.)
Produced by THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO in association with Hulu Japan, the series is created by Ran Tellem, Director of International Content at THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO, who is also an executive producer along with Laura Fernández Espeso, Javier Méndez and Bernat Elías. The series, distributed to more than 90 countries – as with the previous seasons – will also debut on SBS Australia on December 26 and shortly on Hulu Japan.
Shot in English, ‘The Head’ has become one of THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO's main international franchises and was rated one of the best series of 2022 by Variety magazine. The third and final season was unveiled for the first time at the Sitges International Film Festival on October 6.
As is traditional with the franchise, the artistic team of ‘The Head 3’ brings together an international cast of actors from diverse countries and this time has an even stronger multicultural flavor, featuring British, Spanish, German, Japanese, Irish, French, Sudanese and Danish actors.
John Lynch (Blue Lights, The Fall), Katharine O’Donnelly (Mary, Queen of Scots), both in the series from the outset, and OIivia Morris (Hotel Portofino), who joined in season two, are once again the show’s leads. Also returning are Ben Cura (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story) and Olwen Fouéré (The Northman, The Crown), who appeared in season two.
Notable additions to the cast this season include Spanish actress Clara Galle (Through My Window, The Boarding School: Las Cumbres), as well as Stanley Weber (Borgia, Outlander), Nine D'Urso (Cristóbal Balenciaga, Suspended Time), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders, Outlander), Godehard Giese (Babylon Berlin) and Sara-Marie Maltha (The Killing), John Kavanagh (The Tudors, The Black Dahlia) and Atsuro Watabe (The Flowers of War, Ran), among others.
“This season, which brings to an end the severed heads trilogy, is the most savage of all,” says Jorge Dorado, who is back to direct these six new episodes and adds that: “It has been an incredible experience working with a technical and artistic team of the highest caliber. This season we have traversed deserts, descended to the depths of the earth, crossed seas and dodged fires. We have been baked by the scorching sun and frozen during the darkest night."
Season three boasts a team of international screenwriters including Spanish-British pair Teresa de Pelegrí and Dominic Harari (Only Human, The Food Guide to Love), Britain’s Rachel Kilfeather (Vikings: Valhalla S3) the North American Martine Moore (Bwitches) and Britain’s Pearse Lehane (Doctor Who Confidential).
The hallmark of this franchise has been to confine its protagonists in hostile, isolated and remote environments with no means of escape. In the first season it was an international station in Antarctica and in the second a ship at Point Nemo, a place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is the farthest from land. Season three is set in the Sahara Desert, in an area known as Bir Tawil, located on the border between Egypt and Sudan and the only territory on the planet still considered 'no man’s land'. With neither government nor legislation it is without a doubt the perfect place to carry out research for which no rules exist.
The shoot took place between November 2023 and January 2024 in various locations in Madrid, Almería, Tenerife and Segovia.
Synopsis of ‘The Head 3’
Determined to continue her father's research, Rachel (Olivia Morris) believes she has pinpointed the toxin that contaminated the algae. Following genetic modification and testing on animals, it’s now time for human trials. She has thus selected five volunteers of different backgrounds who are willing to act as guinea pigs in exchange for a sizable sum of money. Everything seems to be going well until a new death and the disappearance of a head once again turn a remote location into a nightmare.
About the trilogy
‘The Head’ has already aired to widespread acclaim in over 90 countries, including in key markets and with major operators such as Max in the United States and Latin America; Canal+ in France; Starzplay in the UK and Germany; NENT in the Nordic countries; SBS in Australia; SCC in Canada; Prime Video in Italy, the Netherlands and India; Watch It! in the Middle East and North Africa; AXN in Portugal; Streamz in Belgium; Go3 and NENT in the Baltic States; TET in Latvia and ETV in Estonia. And, of course, Hulu Japan. In Spain, season one is available on Disney+ and seasons one and two on Max.
THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO Distribution will once again be responsible for worldwide distribution of the series in this third season.
Every Saturday and Sunday, a new cooking show with the two three-star Michelin chefs
TEN TV is set to premiere a new cooking show with the Torres brothers. From December 14th ‘Hermanos Torres en casa’ every Saturday and Sunday in the morning time-slot. The brothers Sergio and Javier Torres, who are both owners of the Michelin three-star restaurant Cocina Hermanos Torres de Barcelona, are back on the television with TEN TV.
The show will be offering new cooking content, innovative recipes, challenges and fun moments with the participation of the audience as well as personal stories and insight into their daily lives and things that have happened to them over their careers. ‘Hermanos Torres en casa’ will be opening every Saturday and Sunday at 12 middays with a repeat showing on Thursdays and Fridays at 9.35 in the morning.
Sergio and Javier Torres are the most emblematic brothers in Spanish cooking. Their passion for their profession started when they were just 8 years old influenced by their mother’s mother, Catalina. In 2023, the Michelin guide awarded their restaurant in Barcelona, Cocina Hermanos Torres, their ultimate accolade, their three-star badge, a distinction which showcases their mastery of the art of cooking and their innovative approach, based on creation and research. They are great chefs who not only capable of transmitting their love for cooking but also haven’t forgotten where they come from.
The channel’s strategy of investing in new content has allowed TEN TV become the only channel on the TDT platform to increase their audience by more than 40% in 2024.
