Showing posts with label Por Siempre Mi Amore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Por Siempre Mi Amore. Show all posts

Friday, May 9, 2014

TELENOVELA WATCH: 'Por Siempre Mi Amor' Finale Tonight; 'Dr. Mata' Premiere; 'Lo Que La Vida Me Robó' Product Placement; Favorites of the Week

The finale of Por Siempre Mi Amor airs tonight on Univision.
Tonight is the finale of Por Siempre Mi Amor at 8 p.m. ET on Univision. The telenovela has been exceedingly efficient at resolving its many subplots in the weeks leading up to this final episode. It is astounding how many telenovelas put off the resolutions of their subplots, if they bother to resolve them at all, until the last two episodes which invariably gives the payoffs short shrift and makes for a haphazard mess of cursory scenes. With the subplots neatly tied up, the final episode of POR SIEMPRE MI AMOR can focus entirely on the main characters. The lead up to tonight’s final episode finds all the central players: the protagonists Arturo (Guy Ecker) and Isabel (Susana González), their daughter Aranza (Thelma Madrigal), and the two female antagonists Sonia (Dominika Paleta) and Marcela (Lola Merino) all locked up in barred cells and at the mercy of the telenovela’s slimeball villain Fernando (Héctor Suárez Gomís).

No new telenovela has been announced to replace Por Siempre Mi Amor. For now, Univision will be running back-to-back episodes of De Que Te Quiero, Te Quiero, which will help move things along – the US run is only on episode 45 of the telenovela’s 187 episodes. As Univision is not currently airing any first-run telenovelas in the afternoons, there is a backlog forming leaving US audiences to wonder when (or if) Libre Para Amarte (completed last year), Quiero Amarte (ending its run in Mexico in June) and El Color de la Pasión (nearing episode 40) will reach US airwaves. There are also a pair of Univision co-productions with Venevision: Rosario and Cosita Linda which are seeming ever less likely to air here.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Univision Ranked as the No. 3 Broadcast Network Last Week Among Adults 18-34 in Primetime, Out-Performing FOX and CBS

Lo Que La Vida Me Robó averaged 4 million viewers last week.
For the wek of April 28-May 4, 2014, Univision ranked as the #3 broadcast network in all primetime among Adults 18-34, out-delivering FOX and CBS. Telenovela Lo Que La Vida Me Robó led the way with an average of 4 million viewers.

· On Monday night, Univision ranked as the #3 broadcast network among Adults 18-34 and #4 among Adults 18-49, out-delivering FOX in each demographic. Univision’s entire primetime lineup ranked among the top 15 programs for both Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

TELENOVELA WATCH: Surprise Hit 'La Viuda Negra', Final Episodes of 'Siempre Mi Amore', New MundoFox Series

The success of La Viuda Negra (weeknights at 10 p.m. ET on UniMás) is the surprise of the year so far in the world of telenovelas. This heavily fictionalized telling of the life of the “Queen of Cocaine” Griselda Blanco, a Colombian production from RTI, Caracol and Televisa, has tripled the ratings of the previous novela on the network, La Selección, and topped Telemundo’s time-slot competitor, the narco-novela Camelia La Texana, nine weeks in a row with the gap widening in recent weeks. A few weeks, La Viuda Negra has outdrawn the entire Telemundo lineup of telenovelas, a feat no UniMás series has accomplished since Rosario Tijeras in 2010 back when the network was named Telefutura.

Is La Viuda Negra any good? The direction and editing is the standard customary to Colombian produced narco-novelas, which is to say a better than we’ve seen thus far from Argos/Telemundo. The scripts are a hodgepodge of the now standard narco-clichés with smidgens of fact from Griselda Blanco’s actual life popping up now and again. But make no mistake, this is a drug fantasy, as ludicrous at times as Telemundo’s El Señor de los Cielos or Fox’s El Capo series.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

TELENOVELA WATCH: Thoughts on Seven Novelas - DE QUE TE QUIERO, TE QUIERO; QUÉ POBRES TAN RICOS; POR SIEMPRE MI AMOR; LA IMPOSTORA; EN OTRA PIEL; LA PROMESA; and INFAMES

DE QUE TE QUIERO, TE QUIERO (weeknights at 7 p.m. ET on Univision), a breezy Televisa adaptation of the 1999 Venezuelan telenovela CARITA PINTADA, managed to annoy me so much with its plot contrivances in the opening episodes that I wonder if it can recover. The whole central misunderstanding between the protagonists exists merely because neither character is able to say the right thing at the right time, to make the obvious revelation. The heroine somehow never manages to reveal the crime she believes the hero committed – attempting to rape her; and the hero somehow never manages to reveal he has a twin brother. That the hero can’t figure out his twin brother must have done something to the girl to make her so frightened of him defies all sense. The telenovela also features several scenes of fairly appalling taste including the meet cute of the protagonists which features the hero in blackface, a scene ridiculing an obese couple in a restaurant, and an ersatz ZZ Top guitar riff accompanying each entrance of the “sexy” cop played by Cecilia Galliano. That said, the cast is appealing and mix well, the protagonists are fresh and capable so far, and Marisol del Olmo’s arrival into the story are enough to keep me watching a bit longer.


QUÉ POBRES TAN RICOS
QUÉ POBRES TAN RICOS (weeknights at 10 p.m. ET on Univision) is a why-bother Mexican adaptation by Televisa of the why-bother Colombian comedy telenovela POBRES RICO. It is an amiable, if forgettable hour about a rich family forced to hide out in a property they own and share it with the poor family already living there after the eldest son is framed for embezzlement.

So far, QUÉ POBRES TAN RICOS largely follows POBRES RICO, but at a far slower pace, taking literally twice as many episodes to traverse the same plot points. There is so little story momentum that you forget what the story even is. Most episodes feature a self-contained B story, a little comedic excursion that is usually more interesting than the telenovela’s central plot, and it is these comedic subplots that keep the telenovela afloat.

Monday, January 13, 2014

TELENOVELA WATCH: MARIDO EN ALQUILER Finale; LA IMPOSTORA Premiere; POR SIEMPRE MI AMOR Time Jump

MARIDO EN ALQUILER concludes tonight with a two-hour finale on Telemundo starting at 8 p.m. ET. It was a telenovela that started promisingly, but took a turn for the disastrous about a third of the way through and wound up one of the worst telenovelas of 2013. It seemed a case of the lunatics running the asylum. Actors were permitted to give some of the most grotesquely stupid performances I've seen in years, mugging mercilessly. Normally good actors were very bad in this telenovela and the normally bad actors were unwatchable. When half of the characters are cartoons it throws off the entire equilibrium of the world in which the telenovela takes place -- it makes the other half of the characters, the ones that are sane, seem stupid and ineffectual for putting up with the antics of the buffoons. There were dozens of decent subplots introduced in the novela, but almost all of them stalled out weeks ago, given pat unsatisfactory resolutions. The final plot turns shown in the previews were predictable months ago.


LA IMPOSTORA
LA IMPOSTORA premieres Tuesday, January 14 at 8 p.m. ET on Telemundo. It is the latest co-production between Telemundo and Mexican company Argos. Argos is a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde company – they have produced a number of modern, serious, and rather pretentious telenovelas for Cadena Tres in Mexico, but I have found their recent collaborations with Telemundo far less interesting. I mostly enjoyed ROSA DIAMANTE (2012) but loathed EL SEÑOR DE LOS CIELOS, a lionization of the drug capo as Superman, and LA PATRONA (2013), whose spirit lies closely with those repugnant female revenge flicks of the 1970s like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.

Monday, December 2, 2013

TELENOVELA WATCH: U.S. Premieres - POR SIEMPRE MI AMOR Tonight, ALIAS EL MEXICANO Tomorrow; Thoughts on LO QUE LA VIDA ME ROBO and MENTIR PARA VIVIR

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.

The story: Arturo de la Riva and Isabel López, both suffering from personal tragedies – his wife of ten years suddenly dies, she discovers the man she married was a fraud and cheater – find true love with each other. But their happiness is marred by Arturo’s daughter Aranza resistance to accept Isabel and the nefarious plots of Isabel’s ex-husband Fernando and Sonia, the wicked cousin of Arturo’s deceased wife.