Pasión is the telenovela that began transmissions on September 17, 2007, in Mexico; Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Carla Estrada and the stars are Susana González, Fernando Colunga, Sebastián Rulli, and Daniela Castro.
Hollyoaks Later is a spin-off from the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. Broadcast on E4 with a late night slot, the series began in 2008, and was an annual event for the soap until 2013, when there was a break, until it returned with a special episode in 2020.
Each of the original series was shown over five consecutive nights. The late night airing allowed for more sexual content, "edgier" storylines, and stronger language. Each series is a stand-alone story, although each ties in with events on the main show at the time, with the producers often taking advantage of the later broadcast time to tie up loose ends on the more violent and controversial storylines.
Bintang, a quiet and polite little girl, is a new student who moved from the Netherlands. When she was still not used to hanging out with her new friends in Indonesia, she befriended Bulan, a tomboyish brave girl who was stubborn and wild. Their opposing personalities often make them clash. Hostilities broke out when Bintang found out that Bulan's mother, Yunisa, wanted to marry her father, Dewo.
Carolina is married to a man who commits fraud and blames her, so she runs away from home with her son. The only solution Carolina can think of at that moment is to go see her twin sister, Celeste, who is a nun. The only option she gives her is for them to exchange places and Carolina to go to the place where she will be sent. This is how she ends up in the town of Monteverde, a place where there are only men thanks to Óscar León, who, after his wife left him, is very resentful of women and refuses to give them jobs. There, Father Gabriel and Sister Celeste recruit a group of women to live there and change the dynamics of the town.
El fantasma de Elena is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. The first season comprised 117 episodes transmitted in the USA from July 20, 2010 to January 7, 2011. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez and Segundo Cernadas as protagonists and Ana Layevska as the main antagonist in a double role.
It has had different titles. When the original story was changed after just 30 episodes, the novela was renamed "Elena contra Elena". Two weeks later, the script was taken to a new direction again and its title was changed to "La venganza de Elena". Finally, the novela was named "El desafío de Elena" just after 20 episodes. After the 60th episode, the novela was renamed back to its original name "El fantasma de Elena".
Sofía Domínguez is a motherless girl who lives with her father, Dr. Antonio Domínguez, with her stepmother Mercedes and has a younger brother named Esteban. The latter two strive to make Sofía look bad whenever they can, while her father works all day in a laboratory. Sofia has several friends who are her neighbors and one day they decide to enter the "haunted mansion" on Villa Luz street, where a man named Chon lives and who worked for his late employer "Don Darvelio." When they enter, they will live great adventures and fight to defeat the evil forces of Helga, the "Great Witch" who constantly threatens Sofia's life due to a prophecy that she must fulfill.
Azul is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pinkye Morris and Yuri Breña for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from January 8 to March 22, 1996. Directed by Roberto Gómez Fernández, the telenovela stars Kate del Castillo and Armando Araiza and features the famous orca Keiko in a central role.
The story follows Alejandra, a young woman who works at the dolphinarium of an amusement park in Mexico City while studying nursing. Together with Enrique, the son of the park's owner, she fights to protect Keiko, a beloved orca, from a criminal plot. As their romance blossoms, they must overcome greed, corruption, and the exploitation of wildlife, highlighting themes of love, friendship, and environmental conservation.
The story is set at a prestigious, but rigid and repressive school called Instituto Vidal. Its strict owner, Julia Vidal, was once kind but has now turned into a bitter woman following the death of her husband and her daughter, Lauriel. Her granddaughter, Ana, a very sweet and intelligent 10 year old, also has been affected by the death: She has been rendered virtually speechless by the trauma, though she expresses herself through music and possesses an extraordinary ability to move objects with her mind. Ana's unscrupulous father, Francisco Capistrán, however, has taken advantage of the situation to try to steal Julia's school. The timely arrival of Ana's uncle, Salvador, Amanda and her adopted son changes everything. Ana’s sad and lonely life takes an unexpected turn for the better and she regains her joy in a series of adventures bursting with humor, excitement, music and thrilling surprises.
Como Tu, Ninguna is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. This telenovela lasted 281 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International. It was the first telenovela having Gabriela Spanic as the female lead and by casualty of life, she played a double role nearly the end of the story almost exactly as she would make it in La Usurpadora.
The general plot of the story is about a boy, Danilo, with a positive attitude and an inner strength that nothing in the world can break. He has to work hard to buy food for himself and his dog Tomás, who is his soulmate. Danilo anxiously hopes that his mother will return one day. Under these circumstances he will meet a little old man, Don Julián, and together they will unite the joy of childhood and the wisdom of age.
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.
Hechizo de Amor is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. The show lasted 130 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International.
Sassá Mutema is a farm laborer who becomes the target of the city's powerful figures' cruelty. With Clotilde's support, he discovers that it's possible to start a new life alongside a great love.
Mabel Andrade, a wealthy woman who after an incident is expelled from her home and threatened with the loss of her children's tuition. In a desperate attempt to earn a living and regain her role as mother, Mabel will start a daring business venture: a clandestine motel.
Alice is an independent woman, raised in a Japanese family; Mario is an immature guy of Italian origins. Two childhood friends from very distinct families, bond together by a complicity which spans generations. When Alice decides to live abroad, Mario begins to see in her more than just a friend. Now he will go out of his way to make this unlikely love story come to life in this romantic comedy tied by friendship.