Univision is moving full speed ahead with its big streaming ambitions.

Following its January reveal of a scheduled launch of ad-supported VOD service PrendeTV, which kicked off two months later, the company announced plans to start a new streaming platform after its $4.8 billion merger with Televisa was completed, during an April 14 investor call.

Univision unveiled a blueprint for a unified, "comprehensive global streaming service" that will add a premium paid subscription-based option to a free ad-supported tier, scheduled to debut in the U.S. and Latin America in 2022. It will start with more than 6,000 hours of Spanish-language content and over 30 original productions throughout 2022 and feature globally recognized and award-winning producers, creators and writers. 

For the launch, Univision struck project deals with Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Spanish author María Dueñas and Mexican writer-director Santiago Limón. 

Vargas Llosa will have his 2006 novel “Travesuras de la niña mala” (The Bad Girl) adapted into a television series. The love story, set in the 1960s across various cities in Europe, will be executive produced by Patricio Wills from Televisa’s W Studios. Dueñas, bestselling author of the epic “El tiempo entre costuras” (The Time in Between) and “La templanza” (The Vineyard) whose television streaming adaptations garnered international acclaim, has signed a first-look deal with Univision for her future content and novels and will develop her first-ever series exclusively for Univision’s SVOD streaming service. Limón, creator and co-writer of the hit comedy film “Hasta que la boda nos separe” and director of the television series “La búsqueda” (The Search), will bring to life the action-horror-comedy series “Pinches Momias.”

Read more here: Forbes