El Cor de la Ciutat
Encyclopedia
El cor de la ciutat is a TVC
television
soap opera
first broadcast on TV3
on 11 September 2000 and last broadcast on 23 December 2009.
The show is the most watched fiction program in Catalonia, Spain
, especially among female audiences, drawing around 28-33% of the audience with as much as 40% during season finales. El cor de la ciutat follows the lives of the people who live and work in the neighbourhood of Sants
and Sant Andreu
in Barcelona
, Catalonia
, Spain
.
Eight complete seasons have been broadcast up until July 2008, with Season 9 currently airing. Five episodes are broadcast each week, one on each weekday, on TV3
. Nearly 1,800 episodes of the programme
have been produced, making El cor de la Ciutat the longest-running television series TVC has produced. The show receives almost 800,000 viewers and near season endings some episodes have had over one million viewers. At the end of each season, a special night of programming is dedicated to the soap opera, known as La Nit del Cor (The Night of the Heart).
During the sixth season of the show (2005-2006) there was a change of neighbourhood for the show, as the Peris-Noguera family had to move from Sant Andreu
to Sants, both of which are real areas of Barcelona. The family had fallen into poverty by selling their bar in order to pay release charges to prevent their son, David, from returning to prison. Having thought they had paid it all off, a large compensation claim was made against the family. The claim was made by one of the widowers of a dead passenger, killed in an accident involving a cruiser crashing into the front of The Chyme, a restaurant on the coast of Menorca which David worked in as a chef. In spite of the renewal of characters that the change of location has brought to the program, many of the older characters from Sant Andreu have turned up in episodes set in Sants - some of them, like Francisco and Remei even moved to Sants soon after the Peris-Noguera family.
As a result of the show's move to Sants, viewers have been introduced to the stories behind characters such as the Galiana/Gutiérrez family, Mercè Amorós Sendra and the teachers at the high school there very quickly. Moreover, some of the new characters which have passed through the new series have been played by very famous actors such as Joan Pera and Àngels Gonyalons, who both made two special collaborations during the seventh season of the show (2006 - 2007).
Two years after leaving Sant Andreu, the life of the Peris-Noguera family has changed a lot. Cinta Noguera, now very ill, decides to do everything possible for the Peris-Noguera family to get their bar back in Sant Andreu. The death of his wife makes Pere Peris reassess his life and so he decides start again in his lifelong neighbourhood with his infant daughter, Carolina, and his new partner Àngela Montford. This return to Sant Andreu opens the door to a new phase of the series. From 12 September 2007, the series is broadcast in high definition
, incorporates ten new actors and the majority of characters are from Sant Andreu again whilst retaining some of the more popular protagonists of Sants (such as Fidel Amorós Furió, Benet Sepúlveda Campruví (Beni), the Sendra sisters, Trini González and the Benjumea family).
The interior location scenes are recorded at TVC's
studios in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
, Barcelona.
following the broadcast of the final episode
of a season of the soap opera.
The evening begins with an hour-long special episode of the soap opera which wraps up many of the storylines
created during the past season whilst also creating a cliffhanger
ending which will be returned to during the next series.
After the hour-long special, a special evening is held at the National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC), Barcelona
, which is attended by all the actor
s and actresses from the cast of the series, including a few that will join the series during the next season as new characters
. Prizes are also awarded to actors, actresses and scriptwriters throughout the evening. Up until 2004, a different television personality presented the awards each year. In both 2005 and 2006, the awards were presented by Albert Om, Cristina Puig and Màbel Martí who are all from the television program
me El Club, broadcast on the same channel as El cor de la ciutat, TV3
.
Televisió de Catalunya
Televisió de Catalunya is Catalonia's public broadcasting network, officially composed by eight channels: TV3, 33, Super3, 3/24, 3XL, Esport 3, TV3 HD and TV3CAT. K3 was replaced by Super3 in 2009 and 300 was replaced by 3XL in 2010...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
first broadcast on TV3
TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...
on 11 September 2000 and last broadcast on 23 December 2009.
The show is the most watched fiction program in Catalonia, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, especially among female audiences, drawing around 28-33% of the audience with as much as 40% during season finales. El cor de la ciutat follows the lives of the people who live and work in the neighbourhood of Sants
Sants
Sants is a neighborhood in the southern part of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Formerly an industrial town on the plain bordering Barcelona, known as Santa Maria de Sants, it belongs nowadays to the district of Sants-Montjuïc and is bordered by the districts of Eixample to the northeast, Les Corts to...
and Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been divided up since 1984. It was named after a former municipality in the plain of Barcelona called Sant Andreu de Palomar, the largest in the area, which makes up nowadays the bulk of a neighbourhood bearing the same name...
in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
.
Eight complete seasons have been broadcast up until July 2008, with Season 9 currently airing. Five episodes are broadcast each week, one on each weekday, on TV3
TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...
. Nearly 1,800 episodes of the programme
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
have been produced, making El cor de la Ciutat the longest-running television series TVC has produced. The show receives almost 800,000 viewers and near season endings some episodes have had over one million viewers. At the end of each season, a special night of programming is dedicated to the soap opera, known as La Nit del Cor (The Night of the Heart).
During the sixth season of the show (2005-2006) there was a change of neighbourhood for the show, as the Peris-Noguera family had to move from Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been divided up since 1984. It was named after a former municipality in the plain of Barcelona called Sant Andreu de Palomar, the largest in the area, which makes up nowadays the bulk of a neighbourhood bearing the same name...
to Sants, both of which are real areas of Barcelona. The family had fallen into poverty by selling their bar in order to pay release charges to prevent their son, David, from returning to prison. Having thought they had paid it all off, a large compensation claim was made against the family. The claim was made by one of the widowers of a dead passenger, killed in an accident involving a cruiser crashing into the front of The Chyme, a restaurant on the coast of Menorca which David worked in as a chef. In spite of the renewal of characters that the change of location has brought to the program, many of the older characters from Sant Andreu have turned up in episodes set in Sants - some of them, like Francisco and Remei even moved to Sants soon after the Peris-Noguera family.
As a result of the show's move to Sants, viewers have been introduced to the stories behind characters such as the Galiana/Gutiérrez family, Mercè Amorós Sendra and the teachers at the high school there very quickly. Moreover, some of the new characters which have passed through the new series have been played by very famous actors such as Joan Pera and Àngels Gonyalons, who both made two special collaborations during the seventh season of the show (2006 - 2007).
Two years after leaving Sant Andreu, the life of the Peris-Noguera family has changed a lot. Cinta Noguera, now very ill, decides to do everything possible for the Peris-Noguera family to get their bar back in Sant Andreu. The death of his wife makes Pere Peris reassess his life and so he decides start again in his lifelong neighbourhood with his infant daughter, Carolina, and his new partner Àngela Montford. This return to Sant Andreu opens the door to a new phase of the series. From 12 September 2007, the series is broadcast in high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
, incorporates ten new actors and the majority of characters are from Sant Andreu again whilst retaining some of the more popular protagonists of Sants (such as Fidel Amorós Furió, Benet Sepúlveda Campruví (Beni), the Sendra sisters, Trini González and the Benjumea family).
The interior location scenes are recorded at TVC's
Televisió de Catalunya
Televisió de Catalunya is Catalonia's public broadcasting network, officially composed by eight channels: TV3, 33, Super3, 3/24, 3XL, Esport 3, TV3 HD and TV3CAT. K3 was replaced by Super3 in 2009 and 300 was replaced by 3XL in 2010...
studios in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat or briefly L'Hospitalet is a city to the immediate southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, and the second largest in Catalonia by population...
, Barcelona.
Cast and characters
- Àlex Casanovas ... Fidel Amorós (2005-2009)
- Amparo Moreno... Trini (2005-2009)
- Pep Anton Muñoz ... Peris (2000-2009)
- Armando Aguirre ... Juan Benjumea (2006-2009)
- Artur Trias ... Francisco (2000-2009)
- Ramon Godino ... Rai (2003-2009)
- Nausicaa Bonnín ... Sandra Benjumea (2005-2009)
- Bernat QuintanaBernat QuintanaBernat Quintana is a Catalan actor best known for his role as Max Carbó in TV3 television soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat.-Theatre:* Julieta y Romeo * Molt Soroll per no res * Les Tres Germanes...
... Max Carbó (2000-2009) - Santi Ibáñez ... Beni (2006-2009)
- Enric Rodríguez ... Òscar Benjumea (2005-2009)
- Fermí Casado ... Marc Pomerol Santiró (2007-2009)
- Toni Sevilla ... Paco Pardo (2004-2009)
- Meritxell Ané ... Remei (2000-2009)
- Sílvia Aranda ... Sara Medina Pou (2005-2009)
- Marc ClotetMarc ClotetMarc Clotet is a Spanish actor and model. He is best known for acting in El cor de la ciutat and his role on Spanish primetime soap opera Física o Química....
... Iago (2007-2009) - Maife Gil ... Cecília (2004-2009)
- Paula Vives ... Mercè (2005-2009)
- Jordi Díaz ... Fede Pardo (2001-2009)
- Carmen Contreras ... Roser Balaguer (2000-2009)
- Mercè Arànega ... Paquita Miralles (2000-2009)
- Sílvia Sabaté ... Clara Bosch (2000-2008)
- Miquel García Borda ... Marcel Navarro (2001-2009)
- Isaac Alcayde ... Rafa (2000-2009)
- Eduardo GonzálezEduardo GonzalezEduardo Gonzalez is a Hialeah, Florida Republican politician who serves as the District 102 representative in the Florida House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2006 and reelected in 2008....
... Nelson (2000-2009) - Iván MoralesIván MoralesIván Morales Elvira is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division...
... Pau Bayarri Cortés (2007-2009) - Mercè Montalà ... Àngela Montfort (2006-2009)
- Manel Barceló ... Galiana (2005-2007)
- Susana Bas ... Noèlia (2005-2009)
- Raül TortosaRaül Tortosa- Films :* Cuatro Estaciones by Marcel Barrena * Salvador by Manuel Huerga - Shortfilms :* Fundido a negro .* Persuasió .* En el Mundo de Hopper ....
... Nico (2007-2009) - Santi Pons ... Orpinell (2008-2009)
- Mercè PonsMercè PonsMercè Pons is a known Catalan TV, dubbing, theatre and movie actress born in 1966.Experienced in theatres and discos, she has taken part in several movies and TV series like Abuela de verano or Compañeros...
... Patrícia Guerau (2008-2009) - Margarida Minguillón ... Cinta (2000-2007)
- Jordi Parés ... Enric (2006-2007)
- Oriol Pla ... Juli (2008-2009)
- Aida Oset ... Eli (2007-2009)
- Jaume Bernet ... Felip (2006-2009)
- Tony Corvillo ... Jon (2006-2007)
- Aleix Albareda ... Sergi Frias Miralpeix (2004-2009)
- Mingo Ràfols ... Quico Santamaria Vilardell (2008-2009)
- Carles Garcia ... Àlex (2008-2009)
- Anna Lluch ... Helga (2006-2008)
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... Empar (2006-2007) - Roser Batalla ... Berta (2007-2008)
- Aina Clotet ... Mònica (2006-2007)
- Ferran Rañé ... Gerard (2008-2009)
- Cati Solivellas ... Loli (2005-2007)
- Ariadna Gaya ... Lluna Llobet (2008-2009)
- Francesca Piñón ... Virgínia (2006-2007)
- Mont Plans ... Quima Vilardell (2008-2009)
- Oriol Vila ... Ivan Crespo (2000-2009)
- Joan Massotkleiner ... Paco Benjumea (2005-2008)
- Gemma Brió ... Marga Llobet Ramos (2007-2009)
- Carles Goñi ... Paré (2006-2007)
La Nit del Cor
La Nit del Cor (The Night of The Heart) is an evening of programming and live content associated with the show. The special evening of programming takes place on the Sunday eveningEvening
Evening is the period between the late afternoon and night when daylight is decreasing, around dinner time at 6pm. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin before sunset, during the close of the standard business day and extend until nightfall, the beginning of night...
following the broadcast of the final episode
Episode
An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a serial television or radio program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book. The term sometimes applies to works based on other forms of mass media as well, as in Star Wars...
of a season of the soap opera.
The evening begins with an hour-long special episode of the soap opera which wraps up many of the storylines
Narrative thread
A narrative thread, or plot thread , refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry 'All knowing' sort of narration...
created during the past season whilst also creating a cliffhanger
Cliffhanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...
ending which will be returned to during the next series.
After the hour-long special, a special evening is held at the National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC), Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, which is attended by all the actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
s and actresses from the cast of the series, including a few that will join the series during the next season as new characters
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
. Prizes are also awarded to actors, actresses and scriptwriters throughout the evening. Up until 2004, a different television personality presented the awards each year. In both 2005 and 2006, the awards were presented by Albert Om, Cristina Puig and Màbel Martí who are all from the television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
me El Club, broadcast on the same channel as El cor de la ciutat, TV3
TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...
.