Cris Morena

After a long break from the industry, Cris Morena announced two new projects for streaming service Max: Te quiero y me duele (2023), inspired by a song for her deceased daughter, Romina and Margarita, a spin-off of Floricienta.

She went on to create the biggest youth-oriented franchises in Argentina history and her shows, such as Chiquititas, Rebelde Way and Floricienta, attracted huge ratings all over the world and spawned hundreds of products, albums and live concerts.

She started her career as one of the co-hosts in Jugate Conmigo and became extremely popular playing Belén, the central figure in her mother's hugely successful children-oriented telenovela Chiquititas, in which she starred from '95 to '98.

In 2011, he opened his own production company, Utopia, and filled the void left by his mother's hiatus with the kids-oriented fiction show, Supertorpe, which aired in Disney Channel Latin America and Telefe.

Tomás also co-produced, alongside RGB, the Telefe primetime soap Cuando Me Sonreis starring Facundo Arana, Julieta Diaz and Morena's discoveries Benjamín Rojas and Lali Esposito.

It became weekly, airing every Sunday, instead of daily and had the name changed to Jugate con Todo (1995) becoming a big variety show targeted to the entire family instead of teenagers exclusively.

The final scene had the complete cast waving goodbye in the middle of the sea, boarding the iconic Fragata Libertad and singing the song En el Comienzo.

Now, the action alternates between the 'farm' and a rich and big mansion placed at the side of the mannor) and a partial renovated cast.Some actors from previous seasons, as the main protagonists Camila Bordonaba, Benjamín Rojas, Santiago Stieben, Guillermo Santa Cruz and Nadia Di Cello continued in the show playing new characters.

[11] In addition, because of disagreements between Morena and Claudio Vilarruel (Telefe's new director) the new season only saw the light in June, while it usually started in March (the beginning of fall in the Southern Hemisphere).

While the storylines for the live version of Chiquititas were extremely more simple than the television series and almost non-existent, the show was hugely impressive with its Broadway-like sets, wardrobes, high budgets and special effects.

[22][23] Like in Argentina, the show spawned a huge quantity of licensed products and was the debut of some of Brazil's most popular young actors including the siblings Kayky and Sthefany Brito and Bruno Gagliasso.

But the main factor for the non-renewal of the contract is that the soap opera that was a profitable product for the channel began to lose audience and revenue during the previous season when most of the original characters had ended their plots.

Again, a big merchandising was released, a musical with local actors was made with tickets selling out fast and several members of the cast (Nadia DiCello, Sebastian Francini, Camila Bordonaba, Felipe Colombo) visited the country to promote the show.

The show was so huge in Israel, it motivated producer Yair Dori to approach Morena to co-produce a new Chiquititas season with her (due the legal troubles with Telefé, her createdRebelde Waywith the same cast, but in another television).

It spawned a band, Erreway, formed by the four protagonists, several licensed products (such as stationery items, a clothing line, a monthly magazine, cosmetics and sunglasses) and a triple platinum album.

[27] Although Rebelde Way and Erreway were popular, they were initially outshone by girl group Bandana and boy band Mambrú, winners of the first and second season of reality show Popstars.

Church organization and even the Argentine Camara de Anunciantes (Chamber of Advertisers), a self-regulated group formed by huge ad executives in the country, protested the show.

Rebelde Way soon became the most-watched show among children and teenagers in the country, the group was contracted by several companies, from McDonald's to Swatch, to promote their products and their concerts in Tel Aviv were attended by over 100,000 people.

A number of copycat shows with the same format and with a big chunk of the original secondary cast were aired on Argentinian television, many of them co-produced by Yair Dori, who was still trying to recreate Rebelde Way's momentum (especially in the Israeli market).

They still managed to achieve a Golden record for sales with their album, Empezar Desde Cero according to CAPIF and their first concert in Buenos Aires (part of their goodbye tour) sold-out.

Clarin, in their first positive nod of one of her productions, rated the show as "very good" and noted that "[w]hat Cris Morena declared is true: Floricienta is not much better than all her other children and teen-oriented sagas that were previously on (Chiquititas, Verano del '98, Rebelde Way, Rincón de Luz).

The judge ruled in favor of Cris Morena Group but the two parts reached an amicable agreement which permitted the show to continue being aired in Telefe and the musical to tour across the country.

And new young actors and actresses like Lali Espósito, Candela Vetrano, Eugenia Suárez, Stéfano de Gregorio, Camila Salazar and Gastón Soffritti were also introduced.

Emilia Attias and Nicolas Vasquez were chosen as the leads while Alejo Garcia Pinto and Julia Calvo, both highly respected theater actors, would also be part of the cast.

[60] In November, after Patito Feo finale, Ideas del Sur debuted its new teen oriented show, Atracción x 4 (with the highly promoted reunion of Rebelde Way's Luisana Lopilato and Camila Bordonaba) at the 7 p.m. slot as to avoid a clash with Casi Ángeles.

They caused again a collective hysteria when arrived at the Ben Gurion International Airport and at the hotel, taped a television special, gave interviews and shot commercials for a popular hair product brand.

They toured extensively across the country throughout 2011 and 2012 and made appearances at Dulce Amor, another successful Telefé telenovela which had two of its members (Rocio and Nico Riera) as part of its main cast.

Under the contract, the Mexican-net would help finance CMG productions, promote the shows overseas and handle international sales and distribution, besides having exclusive remake rights in Mexico.

For the show, she reunited Argentina's hottest young actors (three of them discovered by her): Luisana Lopilato, Mariano Martínez (who real life romance was causing huge media attention at the time), Benjamin Rojas, Isabel Macedo and Elsa Pinilla among others.

[70] Oriana Sabatini, Mariel Percossi, Lola Moran, Joaquin Ochoa, Carolina Domenech, Nico Francella, Julian Serrano, Agustin Bernasconi, Maxi Espindola, Eliseo Renteria, Manuela "China" Viale and Jenny Martinez made their TV debut in the show.