La Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico from 7 February 2005 through 29 July 2005. The program became an unexpected success, garnering ratings in excess of 30 points. Starring Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, who last appeared together in 2000's Abrázame muy fuerte, La madrastra tells the story of María, a woman who lost twenty years of her life after being falsely accused of murder and who returns to Mexico to exact revenge on her husband and friends who abandoned her and to see her beloved children once more.
La Madrastra is fourth in a series of remakes of the 1981 Chilean production of the same name. The program aired five nights a week, Monday through Friday, at 9 pm for 25 weeks. A follow-up special, La madrastra: años después, aired shortly after the finale on 30 July 2005.
Three very different parents meet day after day at the door of a kindergarten, each have different difficulties. By sharing their experiences together they form a close friendship.
A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.
Rosa is abandoned as a baby at a boarding school along with a payment of 18 white diamonds. Her mother is Rosaura Sotomayor, a distinguished socialite who needs to hide the fruit of her affair. Rosa grows up and befriends Eva Sotomayor, and both girls vow to live as sisters. Their lives change after they meet José Ignacio Altamirano, an attractive, intelligent and conquering man who takes advantage of Eva’s innocence. The rich heiress dies in a mysterious accident, and Rosa decides to take her identity to avenge her dear friend.
Gunehgaar is the story of a successful businessman Zakaria, his kind and cancer-stricken wife Aisha, their kids and two adopted children. Zakaria’s adopted son Ramal Ali is in love with Malaika and on Malaika’s father’s insistence, the couple secretly gets married. Owing to her deteriorating condition, Aisha takes some decisions for her children which bring major upheavals in their lives.
Maria Miguel, a young, optimistic 21-year-old girl that lost her mother to cancer three years ago and has never met her father, is forced to struggle daily to make a living in a local pizzeria in order to pay a debt. Her life changes dramatically when a wealthy family takes her to live into their house after a bike accident which saved the family's children.
Paradise Beach is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow Pictures. It is associated with New World Television for the Nine Network that aired between 1993 and 1994. The series is set around characters living and working on Queensland's Gold Coast and was filmed largely on location, offering views of crashing waves, golden beaches and scantily clad young women and men. Paradise Beach was intended not only as a rival to Australian soaps Neighbours and Home and Away but also to be the first breakthrough Australian soap to make it in America.
Natutulog Ba Ang Diyos? was the fourth installment of Sineserye Presents, an ABS-CBN production. It is based on the 1988 film, Natutulog Pa Ang Diyos which, in turn, is based on the original novel of the same name by Ruben R. Marcelino.
The story revolves around a young woman who was switched at birth. As a result, what could have been a life of prosperity became a life of poverty. Meanwhile, the baby boy who was put in her rightful place has grown up to be spoiled and irresponsible, but is secretly caught up in his feelings for her.
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse is a 1971 Mexican telenovela by Televisa produced by Ernesto Alonso and directed by Alfredo Saldaña, starring Angélica María and Ricardo Blume. Writing credits belong to Delia González Marquez, Fernanda Villeli, Marissa Garrido, Miguel Sabido and Carlos Lozano Dana
The series featured two theme songs: "A dónde va nuestro amor" and "Lo que sabemos del amor". Both songs were written by Eduardo Magallanes and performed by Angélica María.
By inscrutable vagaries of fate, an immensely rich family becomes moderately poor, and a moderately poor family becomes stupidly rich. In "As in the neighborhood as in the sky" we will follow the adventures of the López López, a family that has a chicken and egg warehouse in the colony, and the Ferrara family, a family that owns a fashion emporium, which allows them to coexist comfortably with the international Jet set.