Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres

Niños Ricos Pobres Padres
Format	Romance – Action, Telenovela
Created by	Luis Felipe Salamanca
Developed by	Telemundo Studios, Miami RTI Colombia
Directed by	Rodolfo Hoyos Santiago Vargas
Starring	Carmen Villalobos Aylín Mújica Fabiola Campomanes Juan Sebastian Caicedo Geraldine Zivic
Theme music composer	Miguel de Narvaez
Opening theme	Una Noche Más interpreted by Luis Campos
Country of origin	United States Colombia
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	131
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hugo León Ferrer
Producer(s)	Madeleine Contreras
Editor(s)	Mauricio Gonzalez L.
Location(s)	Bogotá, Colombia
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Telemundo
Picture format	SDTV 480i
Audio format	Stereophonic sound
Original run	July 7, 2009 (2009-07-07) – January 8, 2010 (2010-01-08) (U.S.)
Chronology
Preceded by	El Rostro de Analia
Followed by	Perro Amor
External links
Website

Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres (Generation Y) is a Colombian telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It debuted on July 7, 2009 at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, taking over the second half of El Rostro de Analía until Friday, July 17, when it completely replaced it in the 9–10 pm slot.This telenovela was sold to 18 countries around the world.

The story revolves around Alejandra Paz, a beautiful 17-year-old girl and her mother, Lucía, an illegal US immigrant who is deported from Miami back to Bogotá, Colombia; desperate and broke, they are forced to move in with Lucía's hostile sister, Verónica. On the first day, Alejandra is invited to Isabela's party, Esteban's girlfriend. While putting a drug on Alejandra's drink. Alejandra suddenly gets raped by Matías, Esteban's friend. Suddenly Alejandra and her mother are submerged into a world of intrigue and betrayal where money is no object and people are not who they seem to be. High school drama soon ensues as Esteban and David fight to win Alejandra's heart. While Esteban and Alejandra date, they are then separated by lies and betrayal made by Mónica and Isabela. Soon Isabela gets pregnant by Gabriel, Rocio and Martha's brother. Later, Isabela lies to Esteban that she is pregnant by him in order to separate him by Alejandra. Suddenly, David learns that he has the opportunity to be with Alejandra, while Alejandra can't forget Esteban and still loves him.

The telenovela was produced by Telemundo Studios Miami and RTI Colombia. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.

The number of episodes aired on Telemundo was 125 due to first 2 weeks 20 minutes episodes, 1 hour timeslot was shared with El Rostro de Analia, the international version has 131 episodes.

Cast

Main Cast in Order of Appearance

Actor	Character	Known as
Carmen Villalobos	Alejandra Paz	Protagonist, Daughter of Lucía, in love with Esteban and David, stays with David at the end
Aylín Mújica	Veronica Rios	Antagonist, Sister of Lucía, obsessed with Gabriel, Monica's friend Mom of Santiago, in insane asylum
Fabiola Campomanes	Lucia Rios	Sister of Veronica, love Guillermo, killed by Monica
Geraldine Zivic	Mónica San Miguel	Main Female Villain, Mother of Esteban San Miguel ,Obsessed with Guillermo ,Kills Lucia
Juan Sebastián Caicedo	Esteban San Miguel	Villain, son of Guillermo and Mónica, in love with Alejandra
Aldemar Correa	David Robledo	Protagonist, Son of Berta and Rafael, brother of Lola, in love with Alejandra
Margarita Muñoz	Isabela Domínguez	Antagonist then protagontist, Daughter of Eduardo, Pregnant by Gabriel, in love with Gabriel
Didier van der Hove	Cesar Alarcón	Father of Juan, lover of Amelia, Politic
Millie Ruperto	Berta Robledo	Wife of Rafael, mother of David and Lola, cook of the school, in love with Mr. Donelly
Johanna Bahamón	Karina Suarez	Eduardo's future wife and Isabella's future step mom, hates Isabella at first
Conrado Osorio	Eduardo Dominguez	Father of Isabella, Karina's husband, lover of Mónica, in love with Aura
Andrés Fierro	Diego Aguirre	Son of Aura and Santiago's boyfriend
Carlos Arturo Buelvas	Santiago de la Torre	Son of Veronica and Roberto, cousin of Alejandra, Diego's boyfriend
Tatiana Renteria	Aura Aguirre	Mother of Diego
Paula Barreto	Dorotea Cortés	School
Alexander Gil	Arturo Duarte	Drug dealer, in love with Lola
Carlos Hurtado	Rafael Robledo	ex-husband of Berta, father of David and Lola, alcoholic, in prison
Alvaro Garcia	Thomas Donelly	School principal, in love with Berta
Margarita Vega	Juliana Pardo	Friend of Isabella and Laura, obsessed with older men especially Mauricio, David's ex-girlfriend, has cancer
Camilo Perdomo	Manuel de la Rosa Cervantes	Son of Jorge, in love with Rocio
Gabriel Valenzuela	Gabriel Granados	Gardener of the School, brother of Martha and Rocio, in love with Isabela, lover of Verónica, father of Isabela's baby
Maleja Restrepo	Amelia Richards	lover of Esteban, Juan, Arturo, and Cesar
Alejandra Guzmán	Rocío Granados	in love with Manuel, sister of Martha and Gabriel
Sebastian Eslava	Miguel Zabala	Schoolboy, Likes Dorotea and Mónica,likes older women
Juliana Gómez	María Dolores "Lola" Robledo	Friend of Rocio, Sister of David,
Majida Issa	Marta Granados	used to be the Maid of the De La Torres, in love with Roberto, Sister of Gabriel and Rocio
Juan Pablo Shuk	Roberto de la Torre	ex-Husband of Verónica, Father of Santiago, in love with Martha
Marcelo Cezan	Jorge Cervantes	Father of Manuel, drug traficant, dead
Angela Vergara	Vanessa Vergara	Lawyer of Jorge, Tutor and guardian of Manuel, in love with Jorge
Javier Delguidice	Guillermo San Miguel	Ex-Husband of Mónica, father of Esteban, in love with Lucía

Broadcasting

Country	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series end
United States		July 7, 2009	January 8, 2010
Armenia	TheShantTv	July 21, 2010	September 8, 2010
Macedonia	SitelTV	December 8, 2009	June 9, 2010
Hungary		April 12, 2010	October 11, 2010
Romania		June 7, 2010	October 16, 2010
Serbia		September 20, 2010	March 21, 2011
Poland	Polonia1	September 12, 2011	February 2012
Slovenia	TV3	September 20, 2011
Bulgaria	bTV	December , 2011

External links

• Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres at the Internet Movie Database