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| Reina de Coazones premieres tonight. |
The story from the press materials: Reina is a humble seamstress “who must overcome the barriers of amnesia to find true love. The story unfolds around mystery, espionage, conspiracy, intrigue, crime and romance, the super-production is set in Las Vegas, Nevada - Sin City - where casinos and nightlife play a leading role in the action.”
REINA DE CORAZONES stars Eugenio Siller in his third leading role at Telemundo. He’s batting .500 at the network after starring in the successful, fine UNA MAID EN MANHATTAN in 2011 and the aforementioned abysmal AURORA in 2010. The lead actress is Paola Núñez in her first role for Telemundo following a string of telenovelas for Azteca in Mexico, most recently the flop DESTINO from last year. The antagonists are played by Telemundo favorite Catherine Siachoque, last seen in LA CASA DE LA LADO, and Juan Soler, his second role for the network after a disappointing fey performance in MARIDO EN ALQUILER last year. Televisa veteran actress Laura Flores moves over to Telemundo in her first full role after a cameo in EN OTRA PIEL. Rounding out the cast are by this point overly familiar Miami Telemundo faces like Henry Zakka (PASIÓN PROHIBIDA), Paulo Quevedo (MARIDO EN ALQUILER), Pablo Azar (MARIDO EN ALQUILER), Wanda D’Isidoro (SANTA DIABLA), Rosalinda Rodríguez (DAMA Y OBRERO) and Paloma Márquez (EL ROSTRO DE LA VENGANZA).
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.
Telemundo Media's LA IMPOSTORA, reached a cumulative audience of 2,386,000 total viewers and 1,168,000 adults 18-49 on premiere night, according to Nielsen. Starring Lisette Morelos and for the first time together, mother and son, Christian Bach and Sebastian Zurita, the original production taped in Mexico averaged 1,608,000 total viewers and 753,000 adults 18-49, becoming Telemundo's best 8 p.m. novela premiere among total viewers in nearly eight years. Locally, the new novela ranked #1 in Miami with adults 18-49, regardless of language and ranked #1 in New York, among Spanish-language networks.
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.
Well-known Mexican singer and composer Alejandra Guzmán will sing "Para Mi," the theme song for Telemundo's new telenovela LA IMPOSTORA, produced in high definition and filmed on location around Mexico, including the world-famous beaches of Acapulco and Guerrero. LA IMPOSTORA, is a story full of love, intrigue, thrills and real-life situations starring Christian Bach, Sebastián Zurita and Lisette Morelos. 
Telemundo Studios is proud to announce that film and television actor Sebastián Zurita will join the network’s talented roster of artists as the star of the upcoming original production LA IMPOSTORA.