Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre
2007
Original language: Spanish
- comedy
The story
Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre is a Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV starring Martín Karpan, John Alex Toro, Maria Cecilia Botero, Carolina Acevedo, Hugo Gómez, former Miss Colombia Andrea Noceti and Andrés Toro. The show started on July 16, 2007 on Caracol TV and it is also broadcast on Ecuador's Teleamazonas in primetime. Caracol TV has sold the rights of the show to Telemundo and Fox. It is, as of May 2008, one of the highest rated TV shows in Colombia.
What it’s like
Bright, heightened studio comedy with the broad colour and easy readability of a daily Latin American serial: warm interiors, exaggerated facial expressions, and frequent cuts to reaction shots that set up each joke. The register is melodramatic but light, a class-swap comedy where characters' pride and pretension get the teasing, and it sits closer to a pleasant sitcom than to tragedy. Its pacing is that of a long-running primetime soap, with episodes built around small escalations, misunderstandings and tidy resolutions, so it rewards casual, distracted viewing: background while cooking, a comfort rewatch, or an evening on the sofa with nothing demanding attention. Intensity is low. Conflict is verbal and social rather than violent, with no gore and no real threat, and romance stays chaste and sentimental. It suits viewers who want a familiar, good-humoured serial to follow across many episodes, especially fans of telenovela comedy and Spanish-language ensemble shows.
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