The upcoming week is chock-full of premieres including
that of a whole new network bringing seven new telenovelas to the US; also the
debut of Televisa’s AMOR BRAVÍO on Univision and Caracol’s EL SECRETARIO on
Telemundo.
MUNDOFOX
MundoFox, a new Spanish-language broadcast network, a
joint venture between Fox and Colombian broadcaster, RCN, officially goes live
on August 13th, though their test signal has been going out for the past two
weeks.
Their website http://www.mundofox.com/
has a channel finder at the top of page detailing the markets where the station
will be available. Hopefully sometime
this weekend MundoFox will actually post their schedule on their website as
well, for at present, I’m a bit at a lost as to what to expect on Monday. Promos running on MundoFox give August 13th
as the premiere date for most of their programs, but that date isn’t present on
the web pages for most of the shows and the online TV listings I’ve looked at
are still filled with the placeholder programming the network was running
during the test signal. Actually, those
schedules are a bit of a hodgepodge, showing some of the new programs in their
advertised time slots, but with other slots filled by the placeholder novelas I
expect will be pulled when the network goes live.
Going by the promos airing on MundoFox, it appears the
network will be broadcasting a five hour block of novelas in the afternoon, two-and-a-half
hours of novelas in primetime with another primetime hour devoted to weekly series.
Not surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of MundoFox’s
telenovelas are Colombian productions courtesy of RCN. The sole exception is LOS EXITOSOS PÉREZ, a
Televisa adaptation of the Argentine telenovela LOS EXITOSOS PELLS, which has
been adapted all over the world – the Peruvian version, LOS EXITOSOS GOME$,
starring Diego Bertie and Gianella Neyra, aired on Telemundo a couple years
ago.
LOS EXITOSOS PÉREZ (8 p.m. ET) is about married
newscasters Martín (Jaime Camil) and Sol (Ludwika Paleta) who are loved by the
viewing public for their seemingly perfect on screen relationship, but actually
hate each other once the cameras stop rolling.The telenovela also stars
Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra, and José Ron.
Interestingly, MundoFox has scheduled this telenovela opposite POR
ELLA…SOY EVA on Univision, which also stars Camil, putting the popular actor’s
shows in direct competition.
EL CAPO (9 p.m. ET), which is being treated as the
network’s flagship program, returns for a second season. The first season aired on Univision’s sister
network, Telefutura, and was one of that network’s biggest hits. Indeed, the story seemed pretty well over,
but Marlon Moreno returns as the Capo, a drug trafficker on the run from the
law.
The 10:30 p.m. ET slot is going to be filled by a variety
of series. On Mondays, MundoFox will air
the second season of KDABRA, a supernatural thriller to do with magic and
illusions starring Christopher Von Uckermann. Colombian series LYNCH airs on
Tuesdays, about a funeral home where clients go to fake their deaths. LYNCH stars Jorge Perugorría and Natalia
Oreiro (KACHORRA; SOS MI VIDA). American
series BONES, presumably dubbed into Spanish, airs on Wednesdays. MENTES EN SHOCK airs on Thursdays, about a
Spanish psychiatrist who arrives at a Colombian hospital where his mentally ill
sister, who has been missing for two years, was last seen. He goes to work at the hospital while hoping
to one day reunite with his sister. The
series stars Spanish actors Alejandro Tous, Goya Toledo, and Colombian actress
Marcela Mar (PURA SANGRE; EL CAPO). The
violent anthology thriller series TIEMPO FINAL airs on Fridays.
The afternoon schedule kicks off with EL JOE, LA LEYENDA
(12 p.m. ET), a biographical telenovela from 2011 starring Jair Romero as
Colombian salsa singer Joe Arroyo. Also
with Estefanía Borge, Andrés Suárez and Jeimmy Paola Vargas.
LAS SANTÍSIMAS (1 p.m. ET) is a telenovela MundoFox has
run promos for, but it isn’t featured on the website, so I’m really not sure if
we’ll actually be seeing it. The
MundoFox press release from earlier in the year described it as “the Latino
version of SEX AND THE CITY, following the lives of five women from different
backgrounds who, in their pursuit for happiness, encounter both internal and
external obstacles.” The cast features
Margarita Ortega (SIN VERGÜENZA), Alejandra Azcárate, Jacqueline Arenal,
Carolina Cuervo AND Kathy Sáenz (PURA SANGRE).
POBRES RICO (2 p.m. ET) is a comedic telenovela from this
year starring Juan Pablo Raba and Paola Rey.
Rey is an actress familiar to American audiences from her work for
Telemundo on the novelas PASIÓN DE GAVILANES and LA MUJER EN EL ESPEJO. POBRES RICO is a rich-meet-poor clash of
cultures story, where the Rico family, after losing everything, move into the
last property they own, a house inhabited by the middle-class Siachoque family.
LAS DETECTIVAS Y EL VÍCTOR (3 p.m. ET), another comedic
telenovela, this one from 2009-2010, also stars Paola Rey. She is joined by another actor familiar to
American audiences, Gregorio Pernía (LA HIJA DEL MARIACHI; FLOR SALVAJE). After a mafia trap leads to his dismissal
from the secret police unit he belonged to, Víctor García (Pernía) opens up his
own detective agency with his wife (Rey), specializing in marital infidelity cases. LAS DETECTIVAS Y EL VÍCTOR also stars Heidy
Bermúdez, Jo Blanco, Gonzalo Revoredo, Nataly Umaña, Juan Pablo Gamboa and Juan
Pablo Llano (UNA MAID EN MANHATTAN).
A MANO LIMPIA (4 p.m. ET) is a telenovela from 2010-2011
starring Claudio Cataño as Manuel “the Lion” Guerra, a young man who, after
five years in prison, returns to his neighborhood to try and ensure his younger
brother doesn’t follow the same path he did.
With the help of a psychology student, Silvia Pizarro (Valentina Acosta),
Manuel sets up a gym as a gathering place for the local youths to try and
encourage them away from a life of crime.
Last but not least, MundoFox is running the enormously
popular 1999 telenovela YO SOY BETTY, LA FEA in half-hour installments
weeknights at 6:30 p.m. ET.
AMOR BRAVÍO PREMIERES ON UNIVISION
The Televisa production, AMOR BRAVÍO, premieres August
13th at 10 p.m. ET on Univision, continuing the network’s four telenovela
primetime lineup they started earlier this year. The telenovela stars Silvia Navarro (MAÑANA ES
PARA SIEMPRE) as Camila, a veterinarian who is invited by her uncle (Rogelio
Guerra) to live at his ranch after a tragedy befalls her. Of course, treachery is soon afoot as the
ranch’s manager, Alonso (Flavio Medina) hopes to seduce and marry Camila,
believing she will ultimately inherit the family fortune. Leticia Calderón plays Isadora, Alonso’s conniving
mother, and César Évora plays their accomplice, Dionisio.
Meanwhile, it turns out the uncle’s true heir, Daniel
(Cristián de la Fuente – IN PLAIN SIGHT; CORAZÓN SALVAJE) is living happily in
Chile. The bad guys conspire to murder
him, fail, but he winds up in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Time passes and Daniel, thirsty for revenge,
travels to Mexico and, with a new identity, gets a job at the ranch, determined
to destroy those who ruined his life.
What not too unexpectedly happens to disrupt his quest for
vengeance? Naturally, he falls for the
woman of the ranch, Camila.
AMOR BRAVÍO also stars René Strickler, Olivia Bucio, and
Laura Carmine.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Look for the We Love Soaps interview with Cristián de la Fuente on Monday.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Look for the We Love Soaps interview with Cristián de la Fuente on Monday.
EL SECRETARIO PREMIERES ON TELEMUNDO
With the Olympics ending this weekend, three time slots
open up on Telemundo’s schedule which are typically filled by telenovelas. It looks like the 11:30 p.m. ET slot will be
filled with episodes of the anthology series DECISIONES for now; and the noon
ET slot will be filled by a rebroadcast of the 2010 Telemundo production DÓNDE
ESTÁ ELISA?, a mystery telenovela about the disintegration of a family after
their daughter disappears that starred Gabriel Porras, Sonya Smith, Catherine
Siachoque, Jorge Luis Pila and Roberto Mateos.
EL SECRETARIO, a 2011 Colombian telenovela produced by
Caracol, makes its US debut August 13th at 11 a.m. ET. This comedy follows Emilio (Juan Pablo
Espinosa), a down on his luck Colombian living in New York who discovers he has
a young daughter back in Colombia. After
a mix up involving a gangster and law enforcement, he finds the only job he can
get is as a secretary at a thriving toilet paper company. The cast features a number of familiar faces
to US audiences: Stephanie Cayo (LA MARCA DEL DESEO; DOÑA BELLA) as a female
executive at the company, Andrea López (EL CLON; ZORRO, LA ESPADA Y LA ROSA) as
her best friend, and Martín Karpan (EL ROSTRO DE ANALIA) as the company’s owner
who is involved with both women.
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R.G. Morin writes a weekly column for We Love Soaps, "Telenovela Watch: A weekly look at the world of telenovelas for non-Spanish speakers." For feedback or questions, you can email R.G. Morin at [email protected].
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