Mesa para tres
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Mesa para tres is a 2004 Colombia
n telenovela
produced and broadcast by Caracol TV
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, after escaping their home town, where they owned a restaurant. In Bogotá they get a job at Zavatti, a high-class restaurant. Both Luis and Alejandro meet and fall in love with Andrea Zavatti, who is the daughter of Harold Zavatti, the owner of the restaurant. George Brown, who is Andrea's boyfriend, tries to get rid from the Toro brothers, as he is only interested in Mr Zavatti's fortune. Luis is kidnapped and thought dead, Andrea and Alejandro get together and, when Luis appears again, feels betrayed by Alejandro.
group Trigo Limpio
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, including Venezuela
's RCTV
. In 2007, ClubIT Arena bought the rights to offer a subtitled version of Mesa para tres on its website in Japan
, under the title Andrea, ai to ryakudatsu no honoo (アンドレア〜愛と略奪の炎). It was divided in 4 "seasons" (3 of 30 episodes each, and one of 28 episodes).
telenovela
Desire
. Changes were made in the location and the plot to make them more palatable to Americans. The serial was known as Table for Three and Three's a Crowd before its debut. The show was filmed at Stu Segall Productions
in San Diego, using 25 principal actors, 250 supporting actors and about 2,000 extras.http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115698811194650185.html Ratings for Desire fell below expectations. The debut scored a 2.0 rating and the first week averaged an 0.8 rating and 1 share. It averaged a 0.4 rating in the adult 18-49 demographic., falling to a 0.3 in its second week. However, the show was sold to several international markets.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
produced and broadcast by Caracol TV
Caracol TV
Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...
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Plot
Luis and Alejandro Toro arrive with their mother to BogotáBogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, after escaping their home town, where they owned a restaurant. In Bogotá they get a job at Zavatti, a high-class restaurant. Both Luis and Alejandro meet and fall in love with Andrea Zavatti, who is the daughter of Harold Zavatti, the owner of the restaurant. George Brown, who is Andrea's boyfriend, tries to get rid from the Toro brothers, as he is only interested in Mr Zavatti's fortune. Luis is kidnapped and thought dead, Andrea and Alejandro get together and, when Luis appears again, feels betrayed by Alejandro.
Cast
- Catalina Aristizábal as Andrea Zavatti
- Héctor Arredondo as Luis Toro
- Diego Cadavid as Alejandro Alejo Toro
- Daniel OchoaDaniel OchoaDaniel Ochoa is a German baritone.-Biography:Daniel Ochoa was born in 1979 and studied with Anthony Baldwin, Hans-Joachim Beyer and Thomas Quasthoff. Between 2002 and 2004, he was a regular member of the master classes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and attended master classes held by Horst Günter...
as George Brown - Myriam de Lourdes as Rita
- Álvaro RodríguezÁlvaro RodríguezÁlvaro Rodríguez was a Galician magnate during the reigns of Alfonso VII and Ferdinand II.Álvaro was the son of Rodrigo Vélaz and Urraca Álvarez, perhaps a daughter of Álvar Fáñez and Mayor Pérez, daughter of Pedro Ansúrez. He married Sancha, an illegitimate daughter of Fernando Pérez de Traba and...
as Francisco Paco - Daniel OchoaDaniel OchoaDaniel Ochoa is a German baritone.-Biography:Daniel Ochoa was born in 1979 and studied with Anthony Baldwin, Hans-Joachim Beyer and Thomas Quasthoff. Between 2002 and 2004, he was a regular member of the master classes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and attended master classes held by Horst Günter...
as George Brown - Stephania Borge as Kathy Noguera
- Germán Quintero as Harold Zavatti
- Orlando Valenzuela as Ramón Tavernero
- Valentina RendónValentina RendónValentina Rendón Escobar is a Colombian actress and singer, born 14 August 1975 in Manizales.Ms Rendón studied Industrial Design at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales but, after winning a scholarship offered by RCN TV, went to live to Bogotá in order to become an actress. She was the lead voice...
as Claudia - Felipe Noguera
Theme song
The song used as theme song was the 1981 hit Te quiero para mí, by SpanishSpain
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...
group Trigo Limpio
Trigo Limpio
Trigo Limpio were a spanish musical trio very popular in Spain in the 1970s and 1980s. It was formed by Amaya Saizar, Iñaki de Pablo and Luis Carlos Gil....
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International broadcasting
The series was sold to several networks in Latin AmericaLatin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, including Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
's RCTV
RCTV
Radio Caracas Televisión Internacional is a Venezuelan cable television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Crespo. It was sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas. Owned by Empresas 1BC, RCTV Internacional was inaugurated as Radio Caracas Televisión on 15 November...
. In 2007, ClubIT Arena bought the rights to offer a subtitled version of Mesa para tres on its website in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, under the title Andrea, ai to ryakudatsu no honoo (アンドレア〜愛と略奪の炎). It was divided in 4 "seasons" (3 of 30 episodes each, and one of 28 episodes).
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
Mesa para tres was the basis for the 2006 MyNetworkTVMyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
telenovela
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
Desire
Desire (TV series)
Desire is an American telenovela which debuted at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on September 5, 2006, on the American network MyNetworkTV, and ended on December 5. It was produced by Twentieth Television...
. Changes were made in the location and the plot to make them more palatable to Americans. The serial was known as Table for Three and Three's a Crowd before its debut. The show was filmed at Stu Segall Productions
Stu Segall Productions
Stu Segall Productions is a studio facility located in San Diego, California.-Filmings:The studio is used primarily for filming television series and movies in the San Diego area...
in San Diego, using 25 principal actors, 250 supporting actors and about 2,000 extras.http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115698811194650185.html Ratings for Desire fell below expectations. The debut scored a 2.0 rating and the first week averaged an 0.8 rating and 1 share. It averaged a 0.4 rating in the adult 18-49 demographic., falling to a 0.3 in its second week. However, the show was sold to several international markets.