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...chosen just one Telemundo tale for development, Body of Desire, and tapped as executive producer Nely Gal??n, a TV veteran in both Spanish and English whose most recent hit was the Fox plastic surgery--reality TV spectacle The Swan. Body of Desire spins the story of a wealthy man married to a beautiful woman; the man dies and is reincarnated in the body of a laborer, only to find that all the people in his former life are phonies. The supernatural twist, Richard says, will appeal to viewers hooked on shows like Medium...
...core, the telenovela is selling the same idea that made shows like The Bachelor so popular: "You really think that there is one soul mate for you," Gal??n says. "It's a universal desire." But the scripts need adjustment. "It's very commonplace for a protagonist of a novela to be a virgin until she gets married," she says. "In the U.S., it would seem ridiculous...
...raise the production values to the gourmet standards American viewers take for granted. An ordinary family drama like 7th Heaven costs $2 million an episode, while a show like 24, with location shots and elaborate special effects, is "like a feature film" that airs every week, Gal??n says, and can cost even more. With so many episodes to produce, telenovelas are shot on the cheap: they use video, not film, and an entire run might take place on just a handful of sets...
...Gal??n promises that NBC's telenovela will look and feel as polished as anything else in prime time, but telenovela producers will be spending only an estimated $100,000 to $500,000 an episode. They won't have to pay for superstar salaries (comedian Ray Romano took home $2 million an episode), expensive writers ("adapters" are paid as little as $50,000 a year) or elaborate shoots. Twentieth Television has plotted out the story arcs for both of its shows and will shoot them jointly to create more efficiency, Cook says. By just changing the lighting, for example, producers...
These small cruise ships go everywhere from Antarctica to the Gal??pagos. When a traveler donates $250 or more to a cause like the Gal??pagos Conservation Fund, he or she receives a $250 travel voucher toward a future trip...