Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Upcoming Telenovelas: Stevey's Notes (Pt. IIB) – September 6, 2017
PART IIB – TELENOVELAS IN
THE NEAR FUTURE
Here we go with the rest of the telenovelas that are now in production.
PRODUCTION #6 – ME DECLARO CULPABLE – PRODUCER: ANGELLI NESMA MEDINA
**No broadcast date for Mexico announced yet, but in production.**
Here we go with the rest of the telenovelas that are now in production.
PRODUCTION #6 – ME DECLARO CULPABLE – PRODUCER: ANGELLI NESMA MEDINA
**No broadcast date for Mexico announced yet, but in production.**
I'm excited about
THIS story!! The name 'Univision' is already being associated with this
production (i.e. a 'Televisa/Univision' production). You guys might be
surprised to hear there is one country that isn't Brazil (or, of course,
Mexico) that has produced some really terrific novelas, most especially in the
new millennium. Indeed the number of productions that have been produced in
Mexico that were actually remakes of Argentinian originals is really quite
staggering, including some that I think a lot of people would consider so
intrinsically Mexican so as to be a part of the culture and country (Simplemente Maria is the one that comes
most immediately to mind), as well as some very prominent or popular novelas
from closer to our time (such as Amores
Verdaderos, Alma de Hierro, Rebelde, Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse, Una
Familia con Suerte, Un Gancho al Corazon, and I could go on). This decade, especially, I don't know how or
why, but Argentina has come out with telenovelas that are absolutely Awesome
(you'll please note that's capital “A'' awesome), and a true credit to the
genre. Giselle Gonzalez's next project is a remake of a recent Argentinian
telenovela and so is this one of Angelli Nesma Medina.
This is a remake
of an Argentinian original called Por Amarte
Así, and it's a pretty kick-ass story, if you ask me. The central issue around
which all of the drama will center is one I don't think anybody could possibly
guess, as it's something that hasn't really been touched upon at all in Mexican
genre. Go on, take a guess! Did any of you guess euthanasia?? I know I sure as
hell didn't, but well, that's where we are! While euthanasia is not really the “theme”
of this story like, say, fatherhood is in the aforementioned Papá a Toda Madre, it is unquestionably
the “thing” about which every aspect of our story revolves. I will explain, but
first the cast.
Angelique Boyer,
remember, was “confirmed” as the woman in prison. You will note that “confirmed”
is in quotations because after all of this confirmation, Srta. Boyer
said "see ya!" to the network, so Mayrin Villanueva was cast instead,
as the character Alba. As
to the male lead, Diego Olivera (who seems to be sprouting up everywhere
nowadays, leading me to wonder if he has compromising photos of our Lord High
Rosy Ocampo doing unspeakable things to farm animals somewhere) was apparently
TOTALLY confirmed. But, perhaps to show Americans what “Fake News” REALLY is,
it was revealed that of all people, Juan Soler would be our male lead, Franco.
This then would mark his return to Televisa after a seven year absence (his
last lead here was in Cuando Me Enamoro since
Reina de Corazones was a Telemundo
production). YAY!! No reasons were given for this switch, but I think it's a
good one, to take nothing away from Sr. Olivera. Sr. Soler does both “sophisticated”
and “sensitive” remarkably well and he has a well-earned legion of fans who I'm
sure will be thrilled at his return. I can't help but wonder, also, whether the
fact that Sr. Olivera is playing a complete asshole in En Tierras Salvajes might have factored into producer Nesma
Medina's decision. (But then, I wonder about a lot of things. That's why I
drink! :-)) Our young protagonists? Irina Baeva (looking drop-dead stunning,
not that it's hard for her) will, hopefully, be given a lot more interesting
things to do than Jose Alberto Castro gave her in Vino de Amor (as well as pretty much everybody else in the cast
with the exception of Veronica Jaspeado and Kimberly dos Ramos to do in VeA), will be Natalia (and, having seen
shots of how she's going to look for this production, really do have to marvel
at how almost impossibly stunning she is). Juan Diego Covarrubias, having
escaped from the mediocrity of Lucero Suarez and her production of De Que te Quiero te Quiero, will be our
other young actor.
I'm excited about
the villains in this one! I mean, MORE
so than usual!! We've got two absolutely KICK-ASS broads being the source of
all of the trouble in this one. (My apologies to all of the ladies who are
reading this who might be offended at my use of such a term, but really, how
better can one describe Daniela Castro and Sabine Moussier when it comes to
supplying villainies??) Sra. Castro will be Roberta, the wife of Franco, she of
the many childhood issues and our main antagonista. Sra. Moussier (in her
fourth production with Angelli Nesma Medina) will be Ingrid, the vindictive and vengeful aunt who will
likewise be supplying a lot of messiness and problems. Oh, and did I mention
(and this is a departure from the original), Ingrid will be schizophrenic and
not the kind that takes her meds regularly (which, considering how well Sra.
Moussier can chew the scenery, ought to REALLY be interesting!!)? If you couple
that with the fact that Roberta's irrationality has already been described as
being bi-polar in some press announcements AND evil (as Daniela Castro herself
has referred to her), will apparently be both bi-polar, and you've got the
makings of the best kind of s**t storm imaginable, if you ask me!!! :-)
There is also a
male villain in here somewhere in regards to the main adult cast, one Tizano,
played by Ramiro Fumazoni and his impossibly gorgeous blue eyes (in their first
main villain role). I have no idea how or what he's going to do, as God knows
Sras. Castro and Moussier are perfectly capable of doing it all themselves. There
of course will also be an evil antagonist among the younger generation. This
will be Natalia’s boyfriend, played by the personification of masculine
virility, Pedro Moreno (Iñaki in TVA),
in the role of Julian. Also, staying with the villains, Roberta's rich, abusive
elderly father is also very much a player in this story in ways one wouldn't
necessarily expect. He will be played by Enrique Rocha.
Awesome support
here, as well, with names familiar to many of Sra. Nesma Medina's productions—Alejandro
Avila (sympathetic, I think he's playing a lawyer), Lisset (sympathetic,
playing the best friend of Alba), Alejandra Garcia, Marco Mendez, and, a name
from the somewhat past, Margarita Magaña (lately Esmeralda in Lo Que La Vida Me Robó).
This production
is already being marketed by Univision, so I think it's pretty safe to assume
that this one WILL be coming to your homes at some point in the near future. Nauseatingly,
Producer Medina has reached out to the public about their feedback on changing
the name of this novela from Me Declaro Culpable
to something else. These are the
alternatives she wanted feedback on: No
Me Juzgues, El Amor Todo Lo Cambia, Culpable Por Amor y Nacidos Por Amor. I, personally, throw up in my mouth a little
every time I read them [ed. note: Anita gags, too, only because the
alternatives don’t seem to reflect the premise as well as the original
does—Amor? Where does that fit. Give me a break.] However, I have been buoyed
by the fact that, everywhere I look, people overwhelmingly seem to be voting
for the original, but we'll have to see. I cannot WAIT for this one!!!
Oh! And here's a picture of our leading man and
his villana wife (Juan Soler & Daniela Castro). They look f**king
fantastic, if you ask me!!! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIA7i0cVoAARFfg.jpg
àThe
central figure in this story (meaning the person connecting everyone in the
story), Franco, is NOT a chiseled guapo a la William Levy or Cristián de la
Fuente, nor a bombshell heroina, but what I guess we could call a “mature” galán.
He is a successful and prestigious lawyer who's in a died-long-ago marriage to
a beautiful and successful woman (but one with issues stemming from childhood
abuse she suffered) and father to a teenage daughter who is rapidly growing up.
As such he has money, prestige, social standing, and success in his legal
business, but is gradually recognizing that none of that matters if one is not
happy, or making a difference in life. Remembering the idealism he once had
that caused him to go into law in the first place, he is contacted by woman
from prison who asks for his help, in spite of it seeming like a hopeless cause.
He agrees to take her case which, upon doing so, NOBODY could ever understand
WHY, as it's a case that NOBODY really wanted, and with good reason. The case
is about a woman going on trial for the murder of her husband and the woman's
guilt is not in any doubt. In spite of, or perhaps BECAUSE of this, on hearing
the story Franco is determined to become this woman's one believer and then,
hopefully, her champion and ultimate savior. Because the woman insists that the
murder of her terminally ill husband who was suffering, was not an act of malice,
but one of love, and mercy. Heavy stuff, eh? We're just getting started!
As I mentioned
before, the lawyer and his beautiful, socially prominent wife have a young
teenage daughter, capricious, rather selfish, and basically someone who, though
she may soon TECHNICALLY be a grown-up, hasn't really grown up at all. She has
an immature relationship with an immature boyfriend and, after yet another
fight with said boyfriend, she tears off in a state and in so doing runs over a
young man who has always been hard-working, determined, and focused on
attaining his dream of becoming a professional soccer player. Through all of
the years of his hard work, dedication,
determination, and belief in himself, Santiago is now considered to be
one of the most promising young stars in the entire sport—until his unexpected
encounter with the grill of our immature princess’s car, leaves him a paraplegic
(hmm, shades of Un Refugio Para el Amor?).
His chances of ever being the soccer player he was right on the cusp of
becoming are as shattered as his legs are now. The second arc of the story,
then, is about these two young people who, for varying reasons, share one event
that has completely shattered their lives, but who have to go on from there.
Now, to bring
this all together, you may notice that, in these two story arcs that involve
two very different pairs of people in two very different situations, there IS
one thing that they have in common, and this will be the third point that makes
up both of our two triangles. In regard to the lawyer's beautiful and socially
prominent wife, who is also, of course, the young girl's determined and
protective mother, Roberta is determined, after her daughter's accident, that, as
tragic the circumstances and whatever the end result for the young soccer
player may be, in no way can her only daughter's young life be destroyed before
it has even begun. In regards to her husband, it's a little more complex, as
the wife, being the other half of the power-couple they are, decides to
champion him and his case with this imprisoned woman, determined that he won’t
lose and the woman will gain her freedom. But her motives are different from
theirs. She wants her husband to WIN and succeed. The woman's freedom is merely
what must happen for this to come to pass. The story of the woman on trial, her
husband's story, the whole element of mercy killing, and the plight of the
terminally ill and those caring for them, do not even register as blips on her
radar, as they do on theirs. What then, will she do, when this moral
estrangement between the two of them and herself begins to become more and more
apparent? Lawyer and client become closer and closer, brought together by their
sharing of the same sense of values, morality, and ideals that nobody else,
most especially the wife, seem to share. Couple that with the woman's own
emotional issues, irrationality resultant of such a strong and determined
character, we have our triangle.
In addition to
this, there is one really cool, really HUGE twist to the dynamic that these
three share that I really don't feel I should comment upon, only because in the
ORIGINAL it was an acknowledged plot point from the get-go, but only for the
viewers. Meaning that the viewing audience became privy to it well before the
characters do. I shall refrain from saying anything because it's the kind of
thing that would be both very easy and completely justifiable for producer Sra.
Medina to change, in terms of the way the twist is presented. If she would
rather make it something that we viewers only become aware of as the characters
themselves do, though I'd reeeee-ally like to and though it may be somewhat
neurotic of me to fret over the right thing to do, knowing the way that most of
you feel towards spoilers on this site, I feel I had better err on the side of
caution lest I reveal something that I shouldn't, especially if producer Medina
has a different way for us to learn about it than was done in the original.
So there are our
two basic triangles--totally different from the normal, wouldn't you say? Well,
we're not done yet! There IS one other,
very important, arc to this story that absolutely must be mentioned. For, if we
have a WIFE in prison for having “murdered” her suffering HUSBAND, wouldn't it
stand to reason that there would be OTHER people who were affected by this
dramatic turn of events? In this case, yes of course there is and this makes up
the rest of our story. The accused murderer and her terminally ill husband have
a young child, a daughter, now in the care of her only aunt on her father's
side, a woman who was passionately devoted to her now-deceased only brother. And
though she presents herself as a sympathetic presence in her sister-in-law's
life, in reality she is devastated by her brother's death and bears an immense
and seething bitterness and hatred towards the woman responsible for it. And,
seeing as she is now the one in possession of the woman's only child and a
reason for living, she is prepared to use this to her every advantage, as well
as ensure that the woman who took her brother from her gets exactly what she
deserves. I think it's an awesome story—the stuff of high drama for sure.
PRODUCTION #7 – LA BELLA Y LAS BESTIAS – PRODUCER: W STUDIOS
**No air date
yet, but in production.**
I mentioned
earlier about a new 'Univision' production (meaning that it's originating from
the American bastard-sister of Mexican telenovelas as opposed to the other way
around, a relatively new phenomenon--kind of like La Piloto, which had the same production team as this one). This is
it. Esmerelda Pimentel is going to be the star, after Altair Jarabo, who had
been hired for the lead role, was unceremoniously fired. The producers (the
amorphous-sounding “W Studios,” is actually the name producer Patricio Wills
uses for stuff he does, for some reason) used a rationale that instantly made
me hate them, as much as I will admit that La
Piloto was a very good production, considering it was its first effort. Apparently,
Srta. Jarabo wasn't thought to be a big enough draw, "No name recognition,"
that kind of thing (you will be forgiven for wondering, as I did—THEN WHY THE
HELL DID YOU HIRE THE POOR GIRL IN THE FIRST PLACE??). So, because she had
never had a STARRING role, they decided not to give her one. Nice, huh?
Anyway, this production
is going to be called La Bella y las Bestias
(cool title, huh?). It's going to be a
revenge-type telenovela (Steve Boudreaux, make sure to sharpen all your pencils
for the Body Count for this one) in the vein of Kill Bill or The Lion King.
Perhaps because
it's a Univision production, there's not much press on it (there wasn't for La Piloto either until it was about to
make it's Televisa debut). But I can say a couple of things. One of the things
I'm finding interesting with these new Univision-produced telenovelas is how
casting seems to be an interesting mish-mash of new faces, old faces, new faces
to us, old faces from way back or another network (or country)! And this one is
no exception--in addition to Srta. Pimentel as our leading lady, Osvaldo
Benevides will be our galán, his second lead galán role after the first etapa
of A Que No Me Dejas. Supporting
roles will be taken by Leticia Huijara (a co-lead in Despertar Contigo), Arturo Barba (who many of you--be you
Televisa/Univision watchers or Telemundo watchers--will probably recognize,
lately as Zeky in La Piloto), among
others.
This will also
mark the television return of the actress Lorena Meritano, most famous as the
evil Dinorah Rosales in the classic Pasión
de Gavilanes, which then spawned FELS
on Televisa and more recently, Tierra de Reyes
on Telemundo. It will be a wonderful thing to see her, as Sra. Meritano was diagnosed
with terminal cancer (it started as breast cancer). But after seemingly years
of chemo and the loss of both breasts, she has beaten it. Perhaps because of
all this, her role will be a limited one. She will be playing the mother of
Sra. Pimentel's lead, I'm assuming in flashbacks, but I wanted to share that
with you in the hopes that you all may get a little bit more joy in watching
this actress just do her job knowing what she went through to be able to do it.
In a story like
this, it stands to reason that the villains will be particularly loathsome (like
Zulima in La Piloto). I know of three
names that are confirmed for the leaders of the evil group of parent-killers.
The lead main baddie will be Sebastian Ferrat (the cop Christian Palacios in Reina de Corazones) and the evil pair of
women played by two classic Telemundo vixens, Jessica Mas (was Dulce in La Fantasma de Elena and Cobra in Reina de Corazones) who will be La Joyera,
and, as the big boss, Aylin Mujica, I'm assuming, considering that her
character will be named La Madame.
àThe story revolves around Isabela Leon, a lovely, hard-working young lady, founder of a mixed martial arts training centre, who returns to the land of her childhood (Mexico, natch) with one goal, to find the people (seven men and two women) responsible for the murders of her parents 'lo those many moons ago, and make them pay.
PRODUCTION #8 – SIN TU MIRADA – PRODUCER: IGNACIO SADA
**No broadcast
date announced, but in production** [ed. note—Caution: if you haven’t seen Esmeralda, Stevey starts us out with a
short recap which might be a spoiler if Sin
tu Mirada is a true remake.]
After the big
success he had with Mi Adorable Maldición
(it's finale got a share of 28.5 points, which is terrific, especially given
its late-afternoon time slot), the network is giving Ignacio Sada more
freedom. So for his next project, he's
chosen to redo one of the classics, Esmeralda—the
story about a blind girl and the man she falls in love with, neither of them
realizing that (in a stunning example of how small the world really can be)
they had been switched at birth and each is living the life the other was
supposed to have. That telenovela, named after the eponymous heroine, was an
original story by "the mother of the Latin American telenovela,” Delia
Fiallo (she’s 93 now and still alive), originally produced in Venezuela in 1970,
starring Lupita Ferrer and remade by Salvador Mejia in 1997 starring Leticia
Calderon as the blind heroine, Fernando Colunga as her dashing galán, and Laura
Zapata as a classist bitch (with a lot of presence and a bad attitude, in other
words, Laura Zapata), and won tons of awards. These are big shoes to fill, then…and…well…I
guess we'll see now, won't we?
This remake is
tentatively called Sin tu Mirada. For
the lead, Sr. Sada has gone with Claudia Martin to play Andrea. Why? Who knows?
She’s the protagonista's sister in Enamorandome de Ramón, currently airing
on Univision and whose first acting credit of any kind was in Un Camino Hacia el Destino (Vicky, one
of the “Mean” girls). Before that she was working in the Wardrobe Department at
the network, as a costume designer (meaning that I think it's pretty damn
awesome that she's now going to be STARRING in one of the novelas alongside
people that not a year-and-a-half ago she was figuring out what they were going
to wear). At least it cannot be said of Sr. Sada that he is of the same
(lesser) moral and professional ilk than Patricio Wills at W Studios, who fires
the woman he hires because, in spite of her acting half of her life in
important television roles, she isn't an interesting enough name to warrant
hiring after all.
Gonzalo Peña, a
Spaniard, beat out all of the other actors for the role of her galán, pretty
big shoes to fill considering that the galán in the original was a very young
Fernando Colunga. Unfortunately, then the tragedy in Barcelona occurred, and
young Sr. Peña couldn't resist chiming in with his two cents, saying enlightened
things like how all Muslims should be kicked out of Spain, stuff like that.
Well, say what you will about Televisa, it prides itself on its inclusiveness
and doesn't take too kindly to people working for the network bearing such extreme
and un-inclusive opinions. (I guess it's easier to overlook Laura Zapata's
rampant and very ugly homophobia because she's been with the network for so
long and people have long known what a b**ch she is.) All of a sudden the offer
was rescinded from Sr. Xenophobe. Of course, as soon as this happened, both he
(and, of course, his agent) went into hyper-drive with deletions, damage
control and mea culpas. So, Televisa decided to play rather deliciously sly
about this. They said, NO, it wasn't AT ALL about those comments, they just all
decided that they needed to think about it a little longer, so all of the
finalists were asked to please audition again, “starting from scratch,” as it
were. And what do you know? Osvaldo de Leon (lately as Erasmo in Sueño de Amor) was chosen! I guess they “saw”
something in this LAST audition that was overlooked before in the casting
process. ;-) So there are the two leads. Apart from that? WELL! We have Eduardo
Santamarina in the pivotal role of the father (that would be 'his father,'
apparently…but in reality 'hers'), Claudia Ramirez in the role of the mother,
and Ana Martin back in the role of (what else?) the beloved and treasured
family nanny, Angustias.
àYou will
note, however, that this particular nanny role is rather an important one, as
it is she who, with the best of intentions, does the ole’ switcheroo of the
babies, with the help of the other baby's midwife (in case you're already
confused, the short version is that Mr. Rich Father has always wanted a child
(read: son), and his wife has always wanted a child (any child) so they're
quite happily pregnant. But when the pregnant Mrs. Rich goes into labour and
delivers herself of our heroina, everybody thinks that she's born dead. BUT…at that EXACT SAME TIME our nanny finds
out that a friend of hers who's a midwife just NOW delivered of a healthy baby
BOY whose mother (and only parent) died in labour! SO, one dead baby with one
dead mother, one healthy boy to the childless rich couple and everybody's happy
with none the wiser. But OOPS!! Just after the switch is made, our supposedly
dead baby girl comes back to life!
What are two
well-intentioned nannies/midwives to do now? In this case, it's to have the
midwife raise the baby girl as her own, with help from our suddenly “what the
f**k have we done?” nanny. So that's Ana Martin. Of course there has to be a
nasty piece of business in this family (isn't there always?). In this case it's
an aunt, a woman whose husband didn't leave her nearly the money that she'd
like to have and as such would, of course, like other people’s. This is the
role played by Laura Zapata in the original, marking her fourth consecutive
classic “evil classist bitch” in a row (following those she played in Rosa Salvaje, Maria Mercedes, and Pobre Niña Rica). A very fun name is
making her return to the network in this pivotal villain role—the gorgeous
Frances Ondiviela (you might remember her as Julieta in Un Refugio Para el Amor, and her wonderfully evil Octavia in Accorrolada sometime back).
ed. note: Here
is a link to a Wikipedia page that lists ALL the telenovelas produced by
Televisa since 2010 and their original air date in Mexico – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telenovelas_of_Televisa_in_2010s
END PART IIB, but stay tuned for Part III
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Here's the rest of Stevey's notes on the productions that are on the storyboards and/or filming.
There just aren't going to be enough hours in the day to watch all of these productions, especially if they overlap. With Stevey's seductive narrative, how will anyone decide which one to toss aside. Decisions, decisions.
Among these, so far, I'm going to be looking forward to all three.
There just aren't going to be enough hours in the day to watch all of these productions, especially if they overlap. With Stevey's seductive narrative, how will anyone decide which one to toss aside. Decisions, decisions.
Among these, so far, I'm going to be looking forward to all three.
I love telenovelas, watch them on Univision and Telemundo here in the US. I don't speak Spanish so I rely on Closed Caption in English. Unfortunately for me and others like me, Univision has discontinued using closed caption in English for all televised novellas. After spending 3 weeks trying to get an answer from Univision I finally got a response from a local technician who finally was able to make contact with Univision and he passed along the very upsetting news, no more cc in English . He said that they, Univision, has no future plans of bringing closed caption back in English . To any of you who are upset by this change maybe you have better resources then me to pass along your complaints and upset. Thank goodness for Telemundo.
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: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 6:44:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 6:44:00 PM EDT
Me Declaro Culpable will replace EnTierras Salvajes in November.
Sin tu Mirada will replace EVDLV also in November.
Sin tu Mirada will replace EVDLV also in November.
Gracias Stevey.
It's also rumored MaPat (La Sombra del Pasado) had a production canceled but was picked up again for November and will be remaking Mariana de la Noche with Ana Brenda as Marcia Montenegro (Angelica Rivera for those who didn't remember.)
It's also rumored MaPat (La Sombra del Pasado) had a production canceled but was picked up again for November and will be remaking Mariana de la Noche with Ana Brenda as Marcia Montenegro (Angelica Rivera for those who didn't remember.)
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:01:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:01:00 PM EDT
Gracias, Stevey. I will have to read this over tomorrow because some of it was just too astonishing....
Hi everybody!
I just left a little note on the comments section of part 2A), but hope it's okay if I repeat some of it here...
First off, I'd like to thank anybody that would like to come and post any thoughts, comments, questions, or remarks that you might have about anything that I've posted, as well as to everybody who may have read this but for whatever reason doesn't want to comment. My first encounter with this quintessentially Latino entertainment medium was shortly after I first moved down to Central America ('Heridas de amor'... I've been a Diana Bracho fan ever since!). I fell in love with them- perhaps BECAUSE they were so different than anything that I- a white Canadian guy- had ever known, that me trying to become as well-acquainted with them as I could made me feel akin to an outsider doing his best to gain entry and fit in with an exclusive country club that most of my ilk don't even know about!
Anyways, through this website I've been so happy to find like-minded people, of all shapes, ages, sexes, and sizes. I look at the television now (which I do rarely), and see the likes of ilk such as "Two Broke Girls", "NCIS- Akron" (or whatever), and the 14th (or whatever) season of 'Criminal Minds' and (nothing against them, however), it just speaks less and less to me. Also, this medium has been great for me in terms of keeping up with my Spanish, so as I don't get rusty whenever I'm up here in Toronto (yeah, I'm a Canuck).
As such, recognizing that the people that generally speaking come on here are as passionate or even 'interested' in this genre as I am, I've gone back into way of thinking of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I'm fortunate that, subsequently, I've been able to amass not only a wealth of knowledge about the genre, but also some pretty cool contacts as well... and so, I thought that whenever I could, I'd try and share some of it with you all- just because if I were in that situation, I'D love it if someone 'in the know' could 'fill me in', as it were!
Anyways, with that having been said, I apologize to everybody for my long-windedness, and thank everybody for your indulgence. Please, feel free to post any thoughts or whatever that you might have- even if it's just about the projects that pique (or don't pique) your interest- but, even if not, thanks for reading and for being a part- however silent- of this wonderful, quirky little community. Siate felice! :-)
I just left a little note on the comments section of part 2A), but hope it's okay if I repeat some of it here...
First off, I'd like to thank anybody that would like to come and post any thoughts, comments, questions, or remarks that you might have about anything that I've posted, as well as to everybody who may have read this but for whatever reason doesn't want to comment. My first encounter with this quintessentially Latino entertainment medium was shortly after I first moved down to Central America ('Heridas de amor'... I've been a Diana Bracho fan ever since!). I fell in love with them- perhaps BECAUSE they were so different than anything that I- a white Canadian guy- had ever known, that me trying to become as well-acquainted with them as I could made me feel akin to an outsider doing his best to gain entry and fit in with an exclusive country club that most of my ilk don't even know about!
Anyways, through this website I've been so happy to find like-minded people, of all shapes, ages, sexes, and sizes. I look at the television now (which I do rarely), and see the likes of ilk such as "Two Broke Girls", "NCIS- Akron" (or whatever), and the 14th (or whatever) season of 'Criminal Minds' and (nothing against them, however), it just speaks less and less to me. Also, this medium has been great for me in terms of keeping up with my Spanish, so as I don't get rusty whenever I'm up here in Toronto (yeah, I'm a Canuck).
As such, recognizing that the people that generally speaking come on here are as passionate or even 'interested' in this genre as I am, I've gone back into way of thinking of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I'm fortunate that, subsequently, I've been able to amass not only a wealth of knowledge about the genre, but also some pretty cool contacts as well... and so, I thought that whenever I could, I'd try and share some of it with you all- just because if I were in that situation, I'D love it if someone 'in the know' could 'fill me in', as it were!
Anyways, with that having been said, I apologize to everybody for my long-windedness, and thank everybody for your indulgence. Please, feel free to post any thoughts or whatever that you might have- even if it's just about the projects that pique (or don't pique) your interest- but, even if not, thanks for reading and for being a part- however silent- of this wonderful, quirky little community. Siate felice! :-)
Thanks Stevey!
Giselle's and Angelli's projects are the only projects I'm interested in. Juan Soler was incredible in Reina while Castro is a walking thunderstorm eliminating anything that crosses its path with tears and snark. Sabine, the Orange-Faced demon on is also great. Meds are overrated!
Remaking Esmeralda is damning proof of uncreativity. Sorry but no one will top the performances of Colunga and Calderon. I won't be watching that. Regarding Sr.Pena it's quite hypocritical of Televisa to act all-inclusive when they are still airing La Rosa De Guadalupe, a 'show' that has more episodes than Keeping Up with the Kardashians(La Rosa has 1014 episodes while Kardashians has a mere 195). Not to mention that La Rosa shoves Christianity , racism, sexual abuse and homophobia at every corner.
Esmeralda Pimentel's next show peaks my interest but I just don't buy her as a mafiosa. But then again the same was said about Livia Brito.
Giselle's and Angelli's projects are the only projects I'm interested in. Juan Soler was incredible in Reina while Castro is a walking thunderstorm eliminating anything that crosses its path with tears and snark. Sabine, the Orange-Faced demon on is also great. Meds are overrated!
Remaking Esmeralda is damning proof of uncreativity. Sorry but no one will top the performances of Colunga and Calderon. I won't be watching that. Regarding Sr.Pena it's quite hypocritical of Televisa to act all-inclusive when they are still airing La Rosa De Guadalupe, a 'show' that has more episodes than Keeping Up with the Kardashians(La Rosa has 1014 episodes while Kardashians has a mere 195). Not to mention that La Rosa shoves Christianity , racism, sexual abuse and homophobia at every corner.
Esmeralda Pimentel's next show peaks my interest but I just don't buy her as a mafiosa. But then again the same was said about Livia Brito.
Thanks, Stevey. Glad to hear about new Mexican TNs in production. With Univision running dubbed Brazilian TNs in prime time, I was wondering if it was because Televisa was slowing down on producing new TNs of their own. I pretty much watch the first few days of every new TN that airs here to see if it grabs me. I never know which TN, if any, will move me to keep watching it. Like on paper I don't care for narco TNs, but La pilota (and the excellent La reina del sur) grabbed me and I watched to the end. So I will check out all new productions you described if/when they come here.
I do worry that Televisa is not staying contemporary and cutting edge to draw millennials. What will they do when their current crop of viewers age out? So I give credit to Rosy Ocampo for putting some real-world, contemporary issues in La doble vida de Estela Carrilo and thought the coming-out-of-the-closet storyline was well done.
I do worry that Televisa is not staying contemporary and cutting edge to draw millennials. What will they do when their current crop of viewers age out? So I give credit to Rosy Ocampo for putting some real-world, contemporary issues in La doble vida de Estela Carrilo and thought the coming-out-of-the-closet storyline was well done.
But then again she's from La Rosa De Guadalupe. She doesn't need to drug herself. Simply being present on the set can cause long enduring traumas.
Hi everybody! Thanks for the comments! I'll write more later, but I've had precious little sleep and should probably hit the proverbial hay before it (meaning, 'me'), gets ugly. (lol)
But, remember what I said earlier about me wanting to make SURE that anything that I told you guys was fact-based (NOT 'fake news' or anything like that)? Well, I think I also said that these things ALWAYS seem to be evolving, changing, etc., etc.,...
So, along BOTH of those lines, regarding the 'Esmeralda' remake, 'Sin tu mirada' (no comment here, but Count, let's just say that you and I speak the same language), Frances Ondiviela is OUT as the lead villain (Laura Zapata's character in the original), Luz Elena Gonzalez is IN. CONFIRMED! Also, Scarlet Gruber will be either the Nora Salinas character or the Ana Patricia Rojo character (Graciela or Georgina... I'm betting on Graciela, because Telemundo was sorta beginning to market her as a 'star', and Gracielita is a much 'starrier' young role than that of Georgina).
I just wouldn't have been able to sleep without correcting that for you guys... (I need help, don't I?? (lol)
Catch you guys after a few Zzzzz's! :-)
But, remember what I said earlier about me wanting to make SURE that anything that I told you guys was fact-based (NOT 'fake news' or anything like that)? Well, I think I also said that these things ALWAYS seem to be evolving, changing, etc., etc.,...
So, along BOTH of those lines, regarding the 'Esmeralda' remake, 'Sin tu mirada' (no comment here, but Count, let's just say that you and I speak the same language), Frances Ondiviela is OUT as the lead villain (Laura Zapata's character in the original), Luz Elena Gonzalez is IN. CONFIRMED! Also, Scarlet Gruber will be either the Nora Salinas character or the Ana Patricia Rojo character (Graciela or Georgina... I'm betting on Graciela, because Telemundo was sorta beginning to market her as a 'star', and Gracielita is a much 'starrier' young role than that of Georgina).
I just wouldn't have been able to sleep without correcting that for you guys... (I need help, don't I?? (lol)
Catch you guys after a few Zzzzz's! :-)
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