Globo Strikes Novela Deal in Georgia

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International has closed a deal with Rutavi 2 of Georgia to broadcast the telenovelas The Favorite and Forbidden Desire.

The productions are slated to premiere in the second semester of 2009. Globo’s telenovelas Two Faces and Seven Sins are also being aired in Georgia at the moment.

The Favorite tells of the rivalry between Flora (Patrícia Pillar, Little Missy) and Donatela (Claudia Raia, Seven Sins), old partners in a country-music duo. The Favorite has already been acquired by 14 countries in Latin America, among them Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay. Forbidden Desire is a romantic telenovela set in the 1930s, in a fictitious city. The production deals with themes like the possibility for all human beings to choose between different paths throughout life. The telenovela has already been sold to countries like the Domincan Republic, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Costa Rica and Portugal.