His father had stolen a large amount of money from her mother, and she demanded that Chester marry Jessica or else his father would be sitting in prison for embezzlement!Ĭhester married her, but years later, Chester proved he was as bad his father had been! When she was younger, she became involved with a pompous boy named Chester Tate, the son of a wealthy stock broker. However, she was that way due to her being sheltered and that made her more than a bit naïve towards the world. Anyone would have loved her, but despite her lovable nature, there were times where she was just plain daffy! To look at her, Jessica Tate was someone who was just absolutely sweet and lovable. She was played by actress Katherine Helmond. JESSICA TATE (nee Gatling) was one of the two principal characters on the serialized situation comedy Soap.
Along with spawning a series of merchandising, Cris Morena Group also released a spin–off movie Erreway: 4 Caminos in 2004.Katherine Helmond as the lovably sweet (but daffy) Jessica Tate. The band enjoyed a great success throughout Latin America, Europe and Israel, selling over 3 million records and achieving several Platinum records. The four form a band named Erreway, in order to pursue their dreams. Its central characters are Marizza Pía Spirito, Mía Colucci, Pablo Bustamante and Manuel Aguirre, portrayed by, respectively, Camila Bordonaba, Luisana Lopilato, Benjamín Rojas and Felipe Colombo. The series follows the lives of Elite Way students, their parents and their professors, and it also features the regular use of English language and phrases by the upper class. The students of the school are the members of Argentine wealthiest families, as well as gifted students with scholarships. Rebelde Way is set in the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding high school near Buenos Aires. In 2009, Jennifer Lopez bought the rights for an U.S. In addition, numerous remakes of Rebelde Way have been made, most notably Rebelde by Mexican Televisa. The series was broadcast in many countries worldwide, including Peru, Germany, Israel, Spain and Uruguay, achieving widespread success. It originally aired from to 18 December 2003.
Rebelde Way is a Martín Fierro Award-nominated Argentine soap opera created and produced by Cris Morena. It is the first telenovela to have been remade worldwide and has been regarded as bringing the telenovela to new levels of success. In addition, the premiere episode doubled and in some cases nearly tripled its prior audience among all key demographics.ĭue to the success of re-runs aired in the United States, in June 2009, Yo soy Betty, la fea re-aired in México on Canal de las Estrellas.īetty, la Fea is arguably the most successful telenovela of all time and one of the most popular television shows in the world. Eight years after the telenovela's original run, the highly anticipated return of the original version of Yo Soy Betty, La Fea delivered impressive ratings for the network, attracting over one million viewers, more than half a million of which were adults aged 18–49. In the United States, both the comedy-drama hit Ugly Betty and Televisa program La Fea Más Bella are based on the Colombian soap opera.īetty, la Fea re-aired on Spanish-language U.S.
More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries. Yo soy Betty, la fea is a telenovela filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced from Octoto by the Colombian network RCN.