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LIVE
Great Telly.
In the Sun.
Without the bollocks.

Great TV.
In the Sun.

The development, the access, the contacts and the cameras — one partnership, one brief, from first conversation to final frame. In it for the television that makes people lose their minds. The 'oh my god, I can't believe they made that' kind.

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Why Ballsy.tv

Proper Tele.
Proper Tan.
Proper Results.

Television Know-How

Years in UK TV, built in Spain. The instinct to know when something has it — that wow factor, that door nobody else found, that voice that until now never dared to speak. That instinct is what shapes a brief from the very first conversation, not the last round of notes.

One Person Across All of It

No account managers. No handoffs. No margins on margins. The person who takes the brief is the person who knows the location owner, the talent agent and the Guardia Civil contact. That person is David.

The Right Yes.

Not every project is right. The ones that are — with that genuine wow factor, that access nobody expected, that voice nobody thought to ask — get complete, obsessive, won't-stop-until-it's-brilliant commitment. That's the deal. Make it special or don't make it.

There's a Version
of Your Idea
That's Just a Show.
And There's the
Other Version.

The open door nobody else found. The voice that until now never dared to speak. The idea that — worked properly from the start, between the right people — could genuinely make someone's jaw drop. That's the television worth making together.

That gap — between the good idea and the great version of it — is exactly where Ballsy.tv lives. The access nobody expected. The funding sitting unclaimed. The contacts who pick up. The experience to know what makes a concept fly and how to give it the best possible chance of doing exactly that.

"The partnership that turns a great idea into the television everyone loves and nobody saw coming."

The secret sauce UK production teams didn't know they were missing — until they worked with it once and couldn't imagine a Spanish production without it. The access, the instinct and the commitment to make something genuinely special.

The cherry on top.  The difference that matters.  The 'oh my god' moment.

▶ The Full Journey

One Brief.
The Right Result.

One team. One process. Development to delivery — we handle the hard bits so the production can focus on making great TV in the sun. Come early. Come with the spark of something. Between us, it catches fire.

01Idea
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02Location
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03Talent
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04Access
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05Production
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06On Air
CH 01Where it starts

Bespoke Creative
Development

Got a spark? A half-formed idea? A voice note from a car park at midnight? Perfect. That's exactly the brief. Years of turning those moments into commission-ready formats with the structure, the pitch deck and the talent hook that makes a commissioner stop scrolling. Proper development work from people who've sat in those rooms. Nail this and every conversation after is easier

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CH 02The canvas

Location
Access

The villa with the view. The beach with no tourists. The port at golden hour. Years on the Costa del Sol means knowing where everything is and — crucially — who actually owns it. The locations that make a commissioner's eyes go wide and a budget look like twice what it is. That's the point. The right location sells the concept before a word is spoken

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CH 03The faces

Talent
Negotiation

The right face changes everything about what a show can become. Getting that face on camera — on budget, on brief, actually enthusiastic — takes relationships that took years to build. Nobody in this industry picks up for a cold call. Relationships that took years to build mean conversations that actually go somewhere — which is a different thing from having a long contact list. The talent that makes a commissioner actually sit up

Talent Negotiation
CH 04The bridge

Institutional
Access

Spanish authorities and institutions don't roll out the red carpet for a foreign production company just because the brief sounds exciting. Trust takes time, local knowledge and understanding what they actually need — not what looks good in a pitch. Years of working alongside Spanish partners means knowing how to make those relationships work properly. Not by pulling strings. By doing it right. Experience, patience and enough Spanish to mean it

Institutional Access
CH 05Shoot day

TV & Film
Fixer Support

Single camera or full multi-camera setup — it scales to whatever the shoot demands. Crew, transport, equipment, logistics across Marbella, Málaga, Fuengirola and the full Costa del Sol. By this point in the process, nothing is a surprise. That's the point of one person across all of it. This is what start-to-screen actually feels like on the day

Fixer Support
CH 06The whole picture

Production
Consultancy

Sometimes a production needs a bit of help in Spain. Sometimes it needs rather a lot. Either way — budget, schedule, compliance, delivery, someone who knows where the decent coffee is — there's one experienced pair of hands across all of it. An insider on the team. Not a stranger on the invoice. All of the above. One call.

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One conversation. No bollocks. This is how
it gets made.
Have That Conversation →
GLITZ

▶ For Brands

The Ad That
Doesn't Feel
Like One.

There's a version of your next brand project that people don't skip, don't ignore and don't immediately forget. It has sunshine, real access, real places and the kind of entertainment energy that no flat studio shoot was ever going to produce. That version lives on the Costa del Sol. Ballsy.tv knows exactly where.

This isn't advertising dressed up as content. It's TV craft applied to a brand brief — the grit, the spit and the polish that gets the shot money genuinely can't buy. The glitz and glam of the Costas dialled all the way up. Fun that feels earned. Glamour that feels real.

Brands that work with Ballsy.tv aren't buying a production service. They're buying a key ingredient — the access, the energy and the creative instinct that turns something ordinary into something that makes people sit up.

"We don't just bring the sunshine. We bring the grit, the spit and the polish to get the shot that makes it sing."

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The Shot Money Can't Buy

The private terrace. The perfect hour. The location that makes a frame look like a film still. Years of access on the Costa del Sol means the shots that aren't available to productions who just turned up with a camera and a brief.

TV Energy, Not Ad Energy

The difference between content that feels flat and content that feels alive is usually the person behind it. Ballsy.tv thinks in television — in story, in entertainment, in moments. That instinct applied to a brand brief produces something different.

The Glitz of the Costas. Dialled Up.

Fun. Glamorous. Alive. The Costa del Sol at its best isn't a backdrop — it's a character. Ballsy.tv knows how to use it. Not as decoration. As the whole bloody point.

▶ For UK Development Heads

An Idea Is
Just a Spark.
Here's the Fuse.

UK development budgets don't stretch the way they used to. The smartest development teams are building the financing into the concept before it ever reaches a commissioner. Spain is one of the most underused tools in that box — and most people don't know how to open it.

Stack the Funding.
Change the Conversation.

A 30% tax rebate on qualifying spend is a real number. Regional grants from the Andalucía Film Commission are a real number. ICAA co-production incentives that open Spanish and European funding streams are a real number. Brand partnerships built into a format from the start — also real.

Stack these properly and a production budget that looks uncomfortably tight in a London development meeting starts to look considerably more interesting against a Costa del Sol backdrop. The difference is knowing which doors to open, in what order, and what to say when you get there.

Ballsy.tv's job — one of the important ones — is helping development teams build funding into the format before the pitch lands on a commissioner's desk. Not as an afterthought. As a strategy. The idea gets stronger, the pitch gets harder to say no to, and the project has momentum it didn't have before.

The Partner You Need Early

Most productions think about Spain when they're looking for a location. The ones that do it properly think about it at the development stage — when there's still time to build the funding in, shape the concept around the access and arrive at a commission conversation with more than just a good idea.

Let's Talk Funding →

What's Available — In Plain Numbers

30%

Spanish Tax Rebate

On the first €1M of qualifying spend. 25% on everything after. The baseline — before anything else is stacked on top.

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Andalucía Regional Grants

Additional incentives for productions filming in the south. The Andalucía Film Commission exists specifically to make this easier — and they're genuinely helpful.

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ICAA Co-Production

Spain's co-production agreements open funding streams from Spanish and European broadcasters. Underused. Worth the conversation if the format is right for it.

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Brand Co-Funding

Fashion, travel, lifestyle brands who want the Costa del Sol as their backdrop — built into the right format from development, not bolted on at the end. Real interest. Real budgets.

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A Very Different Pitch

Ideas that arrive at a commissioner with funding already in the structure are a different conversation entirely. That's the point of doing this properly and doing it early.

▶ New Transmission

The Sun. The Budget.
The Shortcut.

30% back on qualifying spend. Locations that make the footage. Brand partnerships most producers don't know they can access. And one person on the ground who already knows where all of it is.

30%
Tax rebate, first €1M spend
300+
Days of sunshine a year
0
Middlemen. Zero.
The Full Picture ☀
ALL IN

When the
Answer's Yes
It's Properly,
Obsessively,
Yes.

Not every project is the right project. The ones that are — the ones with that genuine wow factor, the access nobody else has, the idea worth building properly from the ground up — those get everything. The contacts, the hours, the 7pm call to a location owner who's just sat down for dinner.

The partnership that starts at the idea stage and doesn't end until delivery. On budget. On brief. And — this is the part that matters — genuinely, unmistakably brilliant. The 'oh my god, I can't believe they made that' television. That's what this is for.

Safe pair of hands.  Creative partnership.  Amazing television.  Sorted.

Let's Make
the Dream
Happen.

Got something with a wow factor? An access nobody expected? A voice the world hasn't heard yet? That's the conversation worth having. Bring the idea — half-formed is fine — and between us, something special gets made.

Broadcasting Now

Direct Line — David Answers

Email

David@ballsy.tv

UK

+44 7405 788906

Spain

+34 611 854 305

Fuengirola, Marbella, Costa del Sol.
Available to UK & international productions.