Colombian-Mexican-Chinese soap opera
A curious example of globalization was reported by Reuters of India (which continues the globalization theme).Mexico's Televisa starts making Chinese soap opera
"Broadcaster Televisa said on Thursday it started production of its first Chinese language soap opera, as the Mexican media giant taps the vast Asian market in search of new business.
"Televisa will make a new version of Colombia's 1999 hit soap Yo Soy Betty la Fea about a goofy, mustachioed, bushy-browed but brainy girl who climbs high in the corporate ladder and wins the love of a top executive.
"Televisa, the biggest producer of Spanish language content in the world, said in a statement that it will partner with China's Hunan broadcaster, production house Nesound and Colombia's RCN in the production of the new soap, due to air in September.
"In May 2007, Televisa announced it would kick off partnerships with Chinese producers and distributors to create soaps with local actors, as well as to develop reality shows and scripts..."
Was the original Colombian show the origin of the American show, Ugly Betty? It wouldn't be the first time that American producers adapted an idea that was successful elsewhere for network television in the USA.
Do you know about the link between All in the Family and Tony Blair? (You probably need to be really old, or a good Wikipedia researcher, to know this.)
Labels: China, globalization, Mexico
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:38 AM
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"Yo soy Betty, la fea (I am Betty, the ugly one), also known as simply 'Betty la fea' (Ugly Betty), was a popular telenovela (soap opera) filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced between 1999 through 2001 by the Colombian network RCN. Over a dozen versions of this telenovela have been made in other countries. In the US, both the comedy-drama hit Ugly Betty and Univision program La Fea Más Bella are based on the Colombian soap opera."
The quotation in the previous comment came from Wikipedia
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