Mesa para tres

Mesa para tres
Genre	Telenovela
Written by	Jorge Hiller, Rafael Rojar, Claudia Sánchez
Directed by	Armando Barbosa, Luis Orjuela
Starring	Catalina Aristizábal Héctor Arredondo Diego Cadavid
Country of origin	Colombia
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	118
Production
Executive producer(s)	Orlando Jiménez
Producer(s)	Asier Aguilar, Miguel Ángel Daza
Camera setup	Multicamera
Running time	45 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Caracol TV
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original run	March 15, 2004 (2004-03-15) – 2004 (2004)

Mesa para tres ("Table for Three") is a 2004 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV.

Plot

Luis and Alejandro Toro arrive with their mother to Bogotá, 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 Ochoa as George Brown
• Myriam de Lourdes as Rita
• Álvaro Rodríguez as Francisco Paco
• Daniel Ochoa as George Brown
• Stephania Borge as Kathy Noguera
• Germán Quintero as Harold Zavatti
• Orlando Valenzuela as Ramón Tavernero
• Valentina Rendón as Claudia
• Felipe Noguera

Theme song

The song used as theme song was the 1981 hit Te quiero para mí, by Spanish group Trigo Limpio.

International broadcasting

The series was sold to several networks in Latin America, 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)^[1]. It was divided in 4 "seasons" (3 of 30 episodes each, and one of 28 episodes).

MyNetworkTV telenovelas

Main article: Desire (TV series)

Main article: MyNetworkTV telenovelas

Mesa para tres was the basis for the 2006 MyNetworkTV 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.[1] 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.^[2], falling to a 0.3 in its second week. However, the show was sold to several international markets.

References

1. ^ (Spanish) "Mesa para Tres" en Japón, Embassy of Colombia in Tokyo, 31 May 2007
2. ^ Ben Grossman, MNT Gets Off to Modest Start, Broadcasting & Cable, 14 September 2006

External links

• (Spanish) (English) Caracol TV International catalogue
• (Japanese) アンドレア〜愛と略奪の炎, Mesa para tres, with Japanese subtitles.
• Mesa para tres at the Internet Movie Database