TELENOVELA WATCH: ROSA DIAMANTE Ending; PASIÓN PROHIBIDA Premieres Jan. 22; ¿QUIÉN ERES TÚ? Pulled

ROSA DIAMANTE comes to an end this Monday, January 21 at 8 p.m. ET on Telemundo. The last week of a telenovela often brings to mind a line from the cult televisionseries MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, the show with the little silhouettes sitting in the movie theater lobbing comments at a cheesy movie: “Okay people, everybody wear eye protection – there’s a lot of loose ends flying together all at once.”

TELENOVELA WATCH: UniMás Premieres Three Shows, And A Trio Of Villains In The Spotlight

FIRST THOUGHTS ON THREE PREMIERES
The relaunch of Telefutura into UniMás this week with a pair of new telenovelas in prime time means viewing options for fans of telenovelas are more plentiful than ever before – four hours on Univision, three hours on Telemundo and a pair of hours on both MundoFox and UniMás.

Unfortunately, neither of the offerings from UniMás – MADE IN CARTAGENA or ¿QUIÉN ERES TÚ? - are English friendly, a curious decision from the network given Univision’s concerted efforts of late to provide English captioning on their telenovelas.

TELENOVELA WATCH: TeleFutura Relaunches As UniMás

Univision’s sister channel TeleFutura will be relaunched as UniMás on Monday, January 7 with the premieres of two new Colombian telenovelas in prime time: MADE IN CARTAGENA at 9 p.m. ET and ¿QUIÉN ERES TÚ? at 10 p.m. ET.

MADE IN CARTAGENA is an action drama produced by CMO Producciones for Caracol. It is about a revenge plot hatched by Harvey Noriega, the leader of a gang of thieves, against a bank president named Vicente Domínguez de Alba after a heist goes wrong resulting in the death of Harvey’s son. Flora, a young dancer, is convinced by Harvey to infiltrate the life of Vicente to save her brother from a death threat.