Televisa assures that it maintains a series on Mexican star Vicente Fernández

The Mexican network Televisa and its American ally Univisión reported this Sunday that on Monday they will premiere a bioseries about the popular singer Vicente Fernández despite the fact that the artist’s family assures that it was suspended by a judge.

On “Monday we will be broadcasting, at 8:30 p.m. (2:30 GMT), the series ‘The Last King. The Son of the People,’” says the statement from the television consortium, the largest Spanish-speaking consortium in the world.

On Saturday, the Fernández family released a statement from their lawyers in which they claim that a federal judge ordered to stop the premiere of the bioseries of the popular singer, who died last December.

“Televisaunivisión is respectful of the law and its authorities, but has not received a judicial notice that prohibits (… ) the series from airing,” the statement added.

The Fernández filed a lawsuit against Televisa, which they accuse of incurring in alleged violations, such as trademark rights and improper use of artistic name.

The consortium dismisses the argument that a name may be subject to trademark rights as a “trick” and maintains that it will fight to “defend freedom of expression” in Mexico and Latin America.

According to the lawyers, the resolution prohibits, while the lawsuit is being resolved, the dissemination of promotional material for the series.

A special on the series was scheduled for Saturday night on Televisa’s local programming, but it was replaced. However, the advertisements announcing the premiere were maintained.

This litigation is part of Televisaunivisión’s competition with the Netflix platform, which has been authorized by the Fernández to make a bioseries about the singer.

Televisaunivisión acknowledges in the statement that it was a “surprise” to learn that “a foreign company” would tell the story of the interpreter and therefore decided to make a “careful version, but also real.”