‘Superstore’ Scores Spanish-Language Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
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variety.comManori Ravindran International EditorNBC comedy “Superstore” is getting a Spanish-language adaptation.NBCUniversal Formats has partnered with Mexican production outfit Dopamine (“Hernán,” “Amarres”) to co-produce the first international version of the hit workplace comedy.
A Spanish-language remake of the America Ferrera-fronted show — which follows a group of employees at a fictional big-box store called Cloud 9 in St.
Louis, Missouri — is fitting given how the NBC show has navigated themes of immigration across its six seasons.Although that primary storyline is through Nico Santos’ Mateo Liwanag, an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines, Ferrera’s Amy Sosa is a Honduran American who struggles with her Latina identity.
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