Boomerang TV
Boomerang TV, S.A. also known as Grupo Boomerang TV is a Spanish independent audiovisual entertainment production company that is owned by French audiovisual production & distribution company Mediawan. It was founded in 1998 by Pepe Abril and Pedro Ricote
History
In October 2010, Boomerang TV and Grupo Godó who launched a joint venture Barcalona-based production company Veranda TV four years ago in 2006, jointly established a Catalonia-based Spanish fiction & factual production company Nova Veranda with Verana's Carles Gené named CEO of the joint venture production company.In May 2015, French entertainment production division Lagardère Entertainment alongside its parent company Lagardère Active had brought an 82% majority stake Grupo Boomerang TV including its divisions and had it placed under Lagardère Entertainment, marking Lagardère Entertainment's first international acquisition outside of France and their first expansion into the international television market along with their expansion of their operations into Spain & their entry into the Spanish television market, Grupo Boomerang TV founders Pepe Abril, Pedro Ricote and Juan José Diaz continued to run the company under Largarère Entertainment.
In 2016, Boomerang TV launch its Chilean division based in Chile,
By January 2017, Boomerang TV sold their Galician-based production company Portocabo who co-produced The Avatars with the former to its general director Alfonso Blanco
Five years later however in June 2020, French audiovisual production and distribution company Mediawan was in exclusive negotiations to acquire Largardère's entertainment production & distribution division Lagardère Studios that include their Spanish entertainment production subsidiary Grupo Boomerang TV for €100 million in order to expand Mediawan's international production output including their entry into the Spanish television market. Five months later in November of that same year, Mediawan completed its acquisition of Grupo Boomerang TV's French entertainment production & distribution parent company Lagardère Studios from Lagardère, effectively marked Mediawan's expansion into the Spanish television market with Boomerang TV became Mediawan's Spanish production subsidiary. A week later on the 11th of that same month following Mediawan's acquisition of Grupo Boomerang TV's former French entertainment production & distribution parent Lagardère Studios, Mediawan established a Spanish production hub named Mediawan Studios Spain that brings Mediawan's Spanish production companies under one group with Boomerang TV being moved under the new production division.
On March 28, 2023, Grupo Boomerang TV announced that they've hired former founder & CEO of LaCoproductora Jorge Pezzi as their new CEO of the Spanish production company with their co-founders Pedro Ricote and Juan José Diaz stepped down as co-CEOs & presidents after leading the Spanish production company for 25 years.