House of the Spirits bosses set next drama at Alma Media Lab
Francisca Alegría and Fernanda Urrejola will develop their next drama series with Alma Media Lab after leading Prime Video's The House of the Spirits as co-showrunners, the people who run a series day to day from script to set.
The Chilean pair sit at the head of the new company's screen slate, according to Variety. That puts their follow-up inside a young outfit built to move stories from page to screen. The slate is books first.
Alma Media Lab is a publishing-to-screen company based in Miami, meaning it publishes books and develops them for film and television. It launched in January 2026. Co-founder and chief content officer Coca Gómez will serve as head writer on the drama being developed with Alegría and Urrejola.
The focus is tight. Alma works on books and series aimed mainly at the United States Hispanic and Latin American market. Its own imprint is called Alma Publishing, giving the group a direct route from manuscript to adaptation.
Two author deals already shape that pipeline. Alma holds exclusive rights to adapt two novels by Carla Guelfenbein, Contigo en la distancia (In the Distance With You) and La naturaleza del deseo (The Nature of Desire). Contigo en la distancia won the Alfaguara Prize.
Alma also holds exclusive rights to a memoir by Federico Arellano about the bombing of Avianca Flight 203. The company has not disclosed which of these books will move first into series development, or in what form.
The move follows the trio's work on La casa de los espíritus, the Spanish title of The House of the Spirits. The Prime Video series is based on Isabel Allende's 1982 novel, as noted in Variety's review. Alegría, Urrejola and Andrés Wood adapted the book for television, with all three credited as co-showrunners.
Nicole Wallace and Alfonso Herrera star in the adaptation, according to Deadline. The wider cast includes Dolores Fonzi, Juan Pablo Raba and Fernanda Castillo. Prime Video will carry the series exclusively in more than 240 countries, according to Amazon MGM Studios.
For viewers, this points to more Spanish-language literary adaptations entering the commissioning queue, the process by which platforms order new shows. A publishing imprint linked to a screen slate keeps rights, writers and production under one roof, from acquisition to release window, the period when a title is made available to watch.
