Turkey’s OGM Pictures and Spain’s Grupo Ganga Forge Partnership

Turkish production giant OGM Pictures has entered into a strategic partnership with prominent Spanish group Grupo Ganga, which is behind Spain’s longest-running primetime TV series ‘Remember When’.

Under their deal, the two companies will work together to develop scripted projects in Turkey and Spain, “with an initial focus on building a slate of series that will be co-produced for linear broadcasters and global streaming platforms,” they said in a statement.

For OGM – which has risen to prominence since its launch in 2019 thanks to a production portfolio consisting of the hit Netflix series ‘The Gift’, ‘The Taylor’ and ‘Paper Lives’ – the agreement with Grupo Ganga follows the recent launch of an international arm called OGM Pictures, which aims to strengthen the company’s global ambitions through strategic alliances.

In January, OGM hired former YellowBird director Berna Levin as head of international production, whose production credits include “The Playlist,” “Young Wallander” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

Last year, OGM Pictures teamed up with Fremantle-owned companies Wildside and The Apartment, and Italian indie Fandango, to produce a Turkish adaptation of the globally well-received Italian Elena Ferrante adaptation series ‘My Brilliant Friend’, which is currently in advanced script stages.

The collaboration between these two outfits from Turkey and Spain, both major players in the global TV market, includes “both the adaptation of existing formats from each company’s catalog and the creation of original content tailored for an international audience,” the statement said.

“The collaboration is rooted in a shared ambition to combine different narrative sensibilities and production approaches, creating stories that feel both locally authentic and internationally scalable,” it added.

“Bringing together different storytelling traditions creates new possibilities for layered and compelling storytelling. Our collaboration with Grupo Ganga reflects our ambition to develop stories that can travel across borders while remaining authentic to their roots,” said Onur Güvenatam, CEO of OGM Pictures in the statement.

Miguel Angel Bernardeau, Founder and Managing Director of Grupo Ganga, commented: “This union is not just an addition of teams; it is the multiplication of our creative capacity. By joining forces with OGM Pictures, we are in a privileged position to tackle large-scale projects and international complexity.”

In addition to the record-breaking ‘Remember When’, Grupo Ganga is responsible for hit procedurals and dramas such as ‘UCO’, ‘Desaparecida’ and ‘HIT’.

Pictured above: Onur Güvenatam (left) and Miguel Angel Bernardeau (right)