Victoria (2007 TV series)

Victoria
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Created by	Bernardo Romero Pereiro Mónica Agudelo Tenorio
Developed by	Telemundo RTI Colombia
Starring	Victoria Ruffo Arturo Peniche Mauricio Ochmann María Helena Doehring
Theme music composer	Miguel de Narváez
Opening theme	Desde que te conoci
Country of origin	Colombia United States
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	169
Production
Executive producer	Hugo León Ferrer
Producer	Oscar Guarín
Production location	Bogota, Colombia
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	Telemundo
Release	December 4, 2007 – August 1, 2008
Related
Mirada de mujer, Señora Isabel

Victoria is the title of a Spanish-language telenovela about a woman who falls in love with a dashing younger man, when her marriage collapses around her. It is produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series debuted in the US on December 4, 2007, after La Esclava Isaura finished. Filmed in Bogotá, it stars Victoria Ruffo, Mauricio Ochmann, Arturo Peniche, Geraldine Bazan and Andrea López.

Story

At her 25th wedding anniversary party, Victoria Mendoza (Victoria Ruffo) finds out her husband Enrique Mendoza (Arturo Peniche) has a mistress, Tatiana López (Andrea Lopez). Suddenly Victoria's whole life crashes around her as she realizes her marriage is wrecked. As she tries to heal the pain of her husband’s adultery, she meets the 33-year-old Jerónimo (Mauricio Ochmann) out of the blue. Published: November 29, 2007

Victoria falls for this younger man, giving her a second chance at the true love and passion missing in her loveless marriage. Unfortunately, many of her loved ones oppose her relationship, including her daughters Paula (Geraldine Bazán) and Mariana (Laura Perico), her mother Mercedes (Margalida Castro) and her ex husband. They blame her for the breakup. On the other hand, her son Santiago (Ricardo Abarca) offers unconditional support. Whie her younger daughter Mariana (Laura Perico) is supposted to be going to university but she isn't, she instead goes to a bar. The owner of the bar, Pacho, gets girls high and then rapes them. And thats what happened to Mariana sadly. Mariana met him because of her other "friend" Arturo. Mariana actually wanted to get together with Arturo but Pacho convinced her into getting with him suppostedly just to make Arturo jealous. Victoria has many problems but does she know she has those problems? Can she solve them? So Victoria faces a difficult decision - either fight to keep true love alive or surrender and let it slip away.

Production

Victoria is a remake of Señora Isabel, a 1993 Colombian soap. This story was also filmed for Mexican TV in 1997 as Mirada de mujer (The Gaze of a Woman). Telemundo plans to air the serial from Monday to Friday over about 26 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network will broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. This show's working titles were Tiempos de Victoria (Victoria's Times), Señora Isabeland The Mauricio Ochmann Project.

The show's premiere on Telemundo reached 782,000 core adult (ages 18-49) viewers, according to NTI, and over 1.5 million total viewers overall. The network expanded the series' run to about 160 chapters from the standard length, 120 shows. It has not announced whether it will remake Mirada's sequel, El Regreso (The Return). Geraldine Bazan won a Latin ACE Award for "Best Inspiring Young Actress" during her role as Paula.

Broadcast

Victoria airs in Colombia as well as Telemundo in the United States, as Televisa (on Galavisión) in Mexico in Slovenia as POP TV and Acasǎ in Bucharest, Romania

Alternate ending

On August 4, 2008 Telemundo broadcast the alternate ending of Victoria through Yahoo! Telemundo. It was the first alternate ending of a Spanish Telenovela broadcasted by Telemundo in the United States.

Advertisements

Product placements in the US version of this show include: JCPenney, T-Mobile Scrubbing Bubbles, Budweiser, Bud Light, Windex, Oust, Lysol, State Farm, Visa, Lowes, The Home Depot, Walmart and Pledge. In some cases, Telemundo news programs can be seen or heard while characters are watching TV, even though this show is not specifically set in the United States.

Cast

(in order of appearance)

• Victoria Ruffo .... Victoria Santiesteban de Mendoza - '
• Arturo Peniche ... Enrique Mendoza - '
• Mauricio Ochmann .... Jeronimo Ernesto Acosta - '
• Andrea López .... Tatiana López - former lover of Enrique, mother of enrique's child felipe"
• Diana Quijano .... Camila Matiz - friend of Victoria
• Javier Delgiudicce .... Gerardo Cárdenas - husband of Helena and father of Arturo
• Laura Perico .... Mariana Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, radio host
• Ricardo Abarca .... Santiago Mendoza - son of Victoria and Enrique, singer
• Adriana Romero....Valeria Saenz - Loves Jeronimo
• José Julián Gaviria....Martin Acosta - son of Silvia and Jeronimo
• Patricia Grisales]]..... - Carlota Velandia friend and adssociate of Victoria"
• Margalida Castro .... Mercedes 'Memé' de Santiesteban - mother of Victoria
• Laura Londoño .... Eliza - 'amiga de Mariana'
• Andrés Felipe Martínez ..... - 'Guillermo' - el jefe de Jeronimo
• Roberto Manrique .... Sebastian Villanueva - Paula's Husband
• Camilo Trujillo .... - Arturo Cardenas - son of Helena and Gerardo Cardenas
• Ricardo González .... - Henry - friend of Jeronimo
• Geraldine Bazan .... Paula Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, lawyer
• María Helena Doehring .... Helena de Cárdenas - wife of Gerardo and mother of Arturo
• Natalia Bedoya .... - Estrella - girlfriend of Santiago
• Julio del Mar .... - Bernardo Solis doctor of Camila
• Lucero Gómez .... dona Thea
• Paola Díaz....Silvia - Jeronimo's ex-wife"
• Angela Carrisoza
• David de Oliveira
• Edmundo Troya ... ex of Camila
• Maria León Arias ... Marlene
• Rene Figueroa
• Fernando Corredor
• Luz Mary Arias .... Marlene
• Mariano Fernández
• Fabio Camero Jr.
• Maru Giraldo
• Gloria Pinilla
• Fernanda González
• Adriana López
• Daniel Calderón .... Santiago's friend
• Naren Daryanani
• Victor Hugo Trespalacios .... Elvis
• Luis Carlos Galeano
• Sebastián Eslava .... Pacho
• Daniel Quintero
• Sonia Rico
• Diego Camacho
• Maria Emilia Kamper
• Claudio Fernández
• Javier Felipe Rodríguez
• Mario A. Parra
• Paula A. Herrera
• Karol Aza
• Jackeline Aristizabal
• Alex Rodríguez
• Ximena Salamanca

Crew

Based on the Original Story of:

• Bernardo Romero Pereiro
• Mónica Agudelo Tenorio

Screenplay by:

• Jimena Romero
• Lina Uribe

Art Director:

• Piedad Arango

Scenography:

• Jorge Parra

Ambientation:

• Paola Triana

Costume Designer:

• Consuelo Sierra

Make-up:

• Jacqueline Maiorga

Original Music:

• Miguel de Narváez

VP of Talent:

• Joshua Mintz

Additional Arguments:

• Margarita Londoño

Photography Directors:

• Mauricio Cadavid
• Roberto Cortez

Operators:

• Alejandro Castro
• Ricardo Morales

Editors:

• Mauricio González
• Diego Rene García

Musicalization:

• Tatiana Gómez

Chief of Production:

• Oscar Guarín

Directors:

• Rodolfo Hoyos
• Andrés Bermann

Executive Producer:

• Hugo León Ferrer

External links

• [2] Telemundo Website
• [3] Official "Victoria" Website