New Novelas on Offer from Telemundo

MIAMI, November 21:
Telemendo Internacional has prepped a slate of telenovelas for the Asia TV Forum (ATF) that
includes highlights such as the 105×1-hour Without
Breasts There is No Paradise
.

Adapted
from the hit Colombian telenovela, Without
Breasts There is No Paradise

centers on a beautiful young woman who is driven by poverty and desperation,
and winds up making a series of wrong choices. She is surrounded by ruthless
people who convince her that beauty, power and money are the keys to happiness,
and she must determine just how much she is willing to sacrifice to find her
paradise.

Also on offer is Analía, which looks at how ambition,
revenge and the criminal world can intertwine. It centers on Mariana Andrade, a
successful businesswoman who discovers that her husband is having an affair
with her cousin Sara. After an attempt on her life and a car accident that
leaves her disfigured, Mariana is rescued by a scientist who reconstructs her
face, though it does not look like her own. Unable to remember anything from
her past, and now with Analia, the woman who tried to kill her, Mariana lives
live a double life that unleashes a battle between love and her desire for
revenge.

Betrayed is
a love story that follows two people whose lives are influenced by double
standards, appearances and secrets, yet the manage to fall in love in spite of
it all. Victoria looks at a
middle-age woman who finds a second chance at love in the arms of a younger
man. Marina centers on a sweet and
brave young girl who is forced to move in with a wealthy family after her
mother's unexpected death. She finds love with a handsome young who has
dedicated himself to spending the family fortune, and who is married to a very
temperamental woman.

In the dating/talk-show
genre is 12 Hearts. The series, which
has already performed well in the U.S., Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina,
features eight women and four men who represent the 12 signs of the zodiac.
Couples are formed after an elimination process, with the help of an expert
astrologer.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski