Sony TV, Caracol partner

Sony Pictures TV exec Donna Cunningham and Caracol president Carlos Alejandro Perez-Davila announce the co-production deal. Sony Pictures TV exec Donna Cunningham and Caracol president Carlos Alejandro Perez-Davila announce the co-production deal. Sony Pictures Television and Colombia's Caracol Television have inked a three-year pact to co-produce at least two primetime skeins a year for Caracol. The commercial broadcaster will also produce local versions of shows from SPT's scripted format catalog. Accord builds on a long-running relationship between the two. Last year, SPT co-produced its first telenovela with Caracol, "Amar y temer" (To Love and to Fear), centered on a romance between a 1950s feminist leader and a boxer during a time of political upheaval in Colombia. It is currently No. 2 in its timeslot. In 2009, Caracol and Sony Entertainment Television, Sony's pan-regional channel, co-produced skein "Los caballeros las prefieren brutas" (Gentlemen Prefer Them Dumb), based on the novel by Isabella Santo Domingo. Caracol remade SPT sitcom "Who's the Boss" in 2006 and "Married With Children" the previous year, with the latter becoming the first U.S. sitcom localized for Colombia. Announcement was made by Caracol TV prexy Carlos Alejandro Perez-Davila and Donna Cunningham, SPT's managing director and exec VP of Latin America and U.S. Hispanic production. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Dot-Marie Jones Dishes On Crazy Emmy Nomination & Fractured Foot

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Dot-Marie Jones who plays gruff-on-the-outside/soft-on-the-inside Coach Beiste on Glee still cant believe her hard work on the hit show has earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. I looked at all who was entered in to be nominated and stuff, and its like, I cant believe Im one of them, a grateful Dot-Marie told Access Hollywood at the Los Angeles premiere of Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie in Westwood, Calif., on Saturday night. And the six [actresses] that are in our category [are] crazy! Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristen Chenoweth, Cloris Leachman and Elizabeth Banks and Tina Fey, who I love to death from Saturday Night Live. So, you know how people say its just an honor to be nominated? To be in that group --are you kidding me? I just want to have lunch with them and Im good, she continued. I just want to sit and have lunch. Despite a nearly 20-year career in television, the recently-earned nomination marks Dot-Maries first Emmy nod, and the 47year-old actress revealed she suffered an unfortunate foot accident that may force her to alter her planned wardrobe for the prestigious ceremony. I just fractured a bone in my foot last night, so Im gonna have to rethink what Im gonna wear, she told Access when asked if shed picked a dress for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, which will air on September 18. Im gonna totally do a pantsuit or something. Im not the dress-wearing [type]. I havent worn a dress since I had to, and that was, I think, graduation. As for her foot fracture, Dot-Marie explained that she had recently been experiencing swelling in the lateral part of her foot a symptom of bigger problem to come. I was going out of the house last night [and] I took like, five steps and I heard this loud pop, she told Access. I fractured a bone on the outside of my foot right down from my little pinky toe. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.