LA VIDA SIGUE premieres tonight at 8 p.m. ET on MundoFox. Produced by Globo in 2011, LA VIDA SIGUE (aka A VIDA DA GENTE) is the first Brazilian telenovela to air in prime time on US network television since CAMINHO DAS ÍNDIAS was shown on Telefutura in 2011. After finding some success with a number of Brazilian miniseries based on Bible stories, it is a welcome move by MundoFox to try a Brazilian novela, long the best produced in the world, but in recent years, in this country, relegated to cable/satellite channels like Pasiones.The story of LA VIDA SIGUE from the press materials: Ana, a promising tennis player, falls into a forbidden love affair with her stepbrother, Rodrigo. Despite strong opposition from Ana’s parents, who have raised Rodrigo and Ana as brother and sister, their love blossoms. Ana discovers that she is pregnant with Rodrigo’s child and decides she will escape from her mother’s possessive grasp when the child is born. She devises a plan and flees with her sister, Manuela, and the baby to start a new life. As the sisters leave their home with the child, they are involved in a terrible car accident which leaves Ana in a coma, forever changing their destiny and that of Ana and Rodrigo’s baby.
Tonight is the US premiere of POR SIEMPRE MI AMOR at 8 p.m. ET on Univision. A Mexican-produced telenovela from Televisa, it is a remake of MI SEGUNDA MADRE from 1989. Produced by Ignacio Sada Madero who is coming off the very fine remake UN REFUGIO PARA EL AMOR, this adaptation of Abel Santa Cruz’s original story is by one of the writers of UN REFUGIO, Nora Alemán, joined here by Denisse Pfeiffer.