Celebrated Colombian television scribe Fernando Gaitan, whose original telenovela “Yo Soy Betty, La Fea” (“Ugly Betty”), a global franchise hit, changed general perceptions about Colombian TV, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 58.
Considered by the Guinness World Records as the most successful telenovela in history, “Ugly Betty” aired in some 180 countries, was dubbed into 15 languages, and adapted in up to 28 territories, including China, India, South Africa, and the U.S.
Before its U.S. launch, Variety described “Ugly Betty” as “a Colombian ugly duckling [that] catapulted the telenovela genre out of its Latin American barrio and generated more clones than any other Latin sudser.”
Executive produced by Ben Silverman and Salma Hayek, the U.S. version of “Ugly Betty” garnered star America Ferrera an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role as Betty Suarez. It was a ratings and award-winning hit for ABC from 2006-2010.
Gaitan had just signed...
Considered by the Guinness World Records as the most successful telenovela in history, “Ugly Betty” aired in some 180 countries, was dubbed into 15 languages, and adapted in up to 28 territories, including China, India, South Africa, and the U.S.
Before its U.S. launch, Variety described “Ugly Betty” as “a Colombian ugly duckling [that] catapulted the telenovela genre out of its Latin American barrio and generated more clones than any other Latin sudser.”
Executive produced by Ben Silverman and Salma Hayek, the U.S. version of “Ugly Betty” garnered star America Ferrera an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role as Betty Suarez. It was a ratings and award-winning hit for ABC from 2006-2010.
Gaitan had just signed...
- 1/30/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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