Word: telemundo
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...ambitious plans for American telenovelas, with a two-year deal to option all the novelas aired on its sister network Telemundo, which is also owned by parent company General Electric. "Our role is licensing formats to them, hand-holding, consulting," says Alfredo Richard, a spokesman for Telemundo. The stories are almost always some variation on star-crossed lovers united in the end. "It's a couple that is trying to have a kiss, and there's a writer in the middle that doesn't let them," says Patricio Wills, a longtime telenovela writer and now head of production for Telemundo...
...chosen just one Telemundo tale for development, Body of Desire, and tapped as executive producer Nely Galán, 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...
...Establecido en Los ?ngeles, Gonz?lez, hijo de un inmigrante mejicano que cargaba camiones en una f?brica de Coca-Cola en Orange, CA, percibe su presupuesto de $4 millones anuales de varias fundaciones y empresas, incluso State Farm y Telemundo Communications. SVREP llev? a cabo 300 campa?as de inscripci?n de votantes en 14 estados el a?o pasado, con la ayuda de 700 empleados a sueldo y 10,000 voluntarios. Si los republicanos se quejan de que los votantes reci?n inscritos votan m?s por los dem?cratas, Gonz?lez se?ala el caso de La Florida, donde los esfuerzos de SVREP tuvieron como resultado...
...with, and its inclusion in a mainstream comedy film is a clear signal of its arrival as a player in American media. It is also a subtle reminder that the United States is in the midst of a socio-cultural shift that goes far beyond the fact that Univision, Telemundo, and other foreign language networks like them, have entered the national consciousness...
...Telemundo's solution? "We're growing our own," says chief operating officer Don Browne. The network has contracted with Miami Dade College, which was giving English courses to Telemundo's Spanish-speaking employees, to offer a free year of telenovela-scriptwriting classes. Of nearly 4,400 applicants from 26 countries, including Lithuania and Japan, 36 students were selected. They will develop, write and produce segments with actors, and when the course is over, they will have a good shot at a network job. Telenovelas typically last only six months, so there will be plenty of potential job openings. And training...