Mega impressed this weekend by releasing the first images of Gabriel Cañas as José Luis Echeñiquea role played by Julio Milostich in 2018 in “El Señor de la Querencia”.
It is the emblematic bet that led TVN to achieve an astonishing average of 27 rating points. This made it the third most watched late-night television series.being only surpassed by “Where is Elisa?” (TVN, 2009), which reached an average of 35 points, and “Forgive Our Sins” (Mega, 2017), which reached 28 units.
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The return of fiction is not only the subject of public debate for bringing the despotic farm boss to the present, but also for install the unprecedented phenomenon in the local remake industry, by selling rights to successful dramatic productions. Enrique Bravo, renowned director of teleseries, referred to this fact in a conversation with Fotech.
Bravo began his career in the early 90s on the state channel, recording titles such as “Tic Tac”, “Aquelarre”, “Santo Ladrón”, “Purasangre” and “Sinners”, among several others.
“There is no competition because Mega has a monopoly”
“It makes me sad, we work on those productions, we are very fond of them. Now, Seeing how they get rid of them due to economic problems, such good products, which did very well for us, is painful.”, laments the director.
““I hope TVN doesn’t continue doing it,” Bravo said.
In this sense, the soap opera director suggests that “I hope they reuse them, display them, since there is no competition because Mega has a monopoly. So they can make some profit. Q“I don’t want to be selling the rights, it’s very painful.”.
It should be noted that Enrique Bravo has in his resume the direction of “Amores de Mercado” (2001), which was crowned as the one with the highest ratings, averaging 47 points.
This teleserye, precisely, is on the list of emblematic dramatic productions that TVN sold to Mega.
“I went to sell”Market loves’ to Miami. I had to work with the Telemundo scriptwriters for their version called ‘Shameless Love’and the types They didn’t understand our Spanish, they didn’t understand Chingao (Mauricio Pesutic’s character) at all.” indicates as an example.
“We had to work on the translations. They tried to take Ángela Contreras (protagonist of the original Chilean version) but it didn’t work out.“added the director, emphasizing the risk of carrying out remakes, which are not easy to reissue with the same quality.
