Future Projects
Her only show currently on air in Argentina is the fourth season of Casi Ángeles. It is her first project since Chiquititas to reach three seasons. Chiquititas third season was aired in 1997. Verano del '98 also had three seasons but she only produced the first 20 episodes of the first season.
Cris Morena and RGB also announced in a press conference their partnership with TV conglomerate and biggest Spanish-language TV channel Televisa. Televisa would help finance and distribute Cris' shows around the world but would have no creative input on the show's content (the creativity part is Cris Morena and her production company responsibility while the financial and business part is managed by RGB). Alongside Televisa and Pedro Damián, Cris Morena and RGB are supervising Verano de Amor, the Mexican version of Verano del '98.
Cris Morena also finished production on Jake & Blake, the first English-speaking show shot entirely in Argentina with a local cast. Benjamin Rojas, which spent 1 year in USA to prepare for the roles (he plays both of the title characters), and Sofia Recca will star. Ex-Rebelde Way castmembers Victoria Moretti and Diego Child will also have key roles. The show, which is already completely shot, was initially planned for the Disney Channel worldwide and executives from the company participated in the production but there are no plans for the program to air on the United States for the time being. The show is about twins separated at birth that decide to switch places. One is a geek and the other one a very popular rock star. The show is already sold to Spain's Antena 3, which is already pre-producing the local version for another CMG show, ByB and for Disney Channel Latin America which will debut the show in mid-2009.
Other productions for 2009 includes the cell-phone and internet television show @trapados, starring Felipe Colombo and Benjamin Rojas, and dramatic weekly show Niños de Cristal, with an already shot pilot and is about kids who went through traumatic and changing experiences (based on true stories). Cris revelead in a conference in Tea Imagen university in Buenos Aires that Niños de Critical had 13 episodes but is still not sold to any channel and she can't confirm it will be since it deals with heavy topics. Each episode is about a young girl who was abused in some way and all of them are based on real cases. Niños de Cristal is directed by her son, Tomás.
Spain's Antena 3 will produce a local version for ByB. Pedro Damian, producer of Rebelde and Lola Erase Una Vez also announced his new project for Televisa is a remake of Verano del '98. Verano del Amor, the title of the Mexican remake, debuted in February and is co-produced by Cris Morena Groupa and RGB.
Cris Morena bought the rights for Spring Awakening and will adapt the musical for Argentina. The local version is scheduled to debut in January 2010 as Cris herself revealed in a conference in Tea Imagen university.
The show Rebelde Way is already being produced by Jennifer Lopez's production company for Fox. The working title is Rebels Day and the first draft of the script is already finalized and was approved by Cris herself. She plants to fly to Los Angeles for the casting.
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