La Vecina premieres this afternoon at 3 p.m. ET on Univision. It is a Mexican telenovela from Televisa produced by Lucero Suárez who is once again mining late 1990s-early 2000s foreign telenovelas for material. After a pair of adaptations of Venezuelan telenovelas: Trapos íntimos (2002) into Amorcito Corazón (2011) and Carita Pintada (1999) into De Que Te Quiero, Te Quiero (2013), Suárez now turns to the 2003 Colombian telenovela La Costeña y el Cachaco, which was rerun in the US six years ago on the channel formerly known as Telefutura.La costeña y el Cachaco seems an odd choice for foreign adaptation and I’m curious to see how the quite specific culture clash depicted in that Colombian coastal comedy about a sophisticated, uptight urbanite moving to a Caribbean port town and meeting a free-spirited Barranquilla girl will be transposed to Mexican location and culture. Colombian coastal comedies are almost a distinct telenovela genre in themselves and it is hard to imagine the color and character will not be lost in the transposition.