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Telenovelas are a big deal in the Brazilian market, as they make up part of the artistic, audiovisual and entertainment of the society's culture.

In Brazil, telenovelas are primarily produced by Rede Globo, Brail's largest audiovisual media conglomerate, SBT, and RecordTV. While most telenovelas produced in Brazil are great record breakers, some left a lot to be desired amongst the Brazilian audience and yet, surprisingly, managed to get good numbers when sold to other countries and below, we have a list of these telenovelas that managed to be international successes:

Apocalypse 



The telenovelas, written by Vivian de Oliveira of the Moses and the Ten Commandments fame, was an audience repellent when it aired in RecordTV, back home in Brazil. However, the same cannot be said for the dystopian drama when it premiered this year on the UniMás network in the USA, where dubbed in Spanish and titled Apocalipsis, the novela, starring Igor Rickli, Juliana Knust and Sergio Marone in the titular roles, scored a viewership of 700,000 households, making it the most-watched program at that hour.

The Rich and Lazarus 



The Rich and Lazarus, written by Paula Richard, had modest viewership dropping from 15 to 10 points, as compared to its predecessor, The Promised Land ( A Terra Prometida ) which is set to premiere in English dub, on January 6th in the UK only on mytv (The two mentioned shows in this paragraph will probably make it to Kenya on KTN )

The telenovela was acquired by Univision in the USA, also dubbed in Spanish under the title El Rico y Lazaro and led audience ratings to the point that protagonist actor Dudu Azevedo had to travel abroad in promoting the show.

The Rich and Lazarus stars Igor Rickli, Dudu Azevedo and Milena Toscano.

Jesus



Jesus, also written by Paula Richard, is beyond being a success in international markets. In Brazil, the telenovela raised the rating from direct predecessors, Apocalypse and Leah, but did not make it to grand success-level, in national terms. 

The same cannot be said for when the telenovela aired in the USA on Univision. Now only was the audience so great, but it finally became the most-watched Brazilian telenovela in American television history.

The Life we Lead 



Produced by Globo, The Life we Lead has been sold to over 95 countries.The telenovela, written by Licia Manzo who was debuting as a writer of telenovelas with the show, did not do well according to Ibope numbers and failed miserably from the first to the last episode.

The number of countries it has been sold to, however, proves the veracity and trueness of the story. It was sold with an international version of 70 episodes and the sales beat those for O Clone and Terra Nostra. Not bad, huh?

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Irrational Heart



This second partnership between Gilberto Braga and Ricardo Linhares - the first one being Tropical Paradise (2007) - aired in a period of audience crisis for the prime time of Globo. Perhaps because of this - and also for some really problematic points of the work - it took a while to get into the good sides of Ibope and ended up with a median average.

Even because of this factor, it can be said that the repercussion of Irrational Heart on the international market was surprising, although not so phenomenal. Broadcast to over 30 countries, the work was so successful in Uruguay that it ended up broadcasting in exclusive movie screenings to the most ardent fans.


In Argentina, Irrational Heart was cast to replace the successful Avenida Brasil and was able to hold on to the audience of the previous show.

Brave Woman


Rejected by the public and trampled by critics, the story created by Gloria Perez knocked down the rates of Avenida Brasil , its predecessor in prime time of Globo, from 39 to 34 points. Abroad, however, Brave Woman is remembered as one of the most watched Brazilian attractions of the last decade, even transforming actress Nanda Costa into the media darling of many countries.

Total Dreamer actress Marina Ruy Barbosa, who last worked on TV on Globo's O Sétimo Guardião, written by Aguinaldo Silva, will be coming to back to TV for an appearance in Globo's Bom Sucesso.

Bom Sucesso is a telenovela created by Total Dreamer writing duo, Rosanne Svartman and Paulo Halm, and tells the story of Paloma, mother of three who finds out that she is terminally ill, but later finds out that the test results were altered and she seeks to find the person whose results had been presumed to be hers in an effort to comfort and get to know him/her. 

Bom Sucesso is currently an audience success on Rede Globo, starring Grazi Massafera, Rômulo Estrela, David Junior, Antônio Fagundes, Ingrid Guimarães, Fabiula Nascimento, Armando Babaioff and Sheron Menezzes in the main roles. 

Marina Ruy Barbosa will be reprising her role from Total Dreamer as Eliza de Assis, who will come for a photoshoot in the episodes she is scheduled to be in and will meet Paloma, who will tell Eliza that she followed the entire Total Dreamer contest and was rooting for her the entire time.

Marina Ruy Barbosa has been on vacation since the end of O Sétimo Guardião as a way to refresh her image before she can return to the small screen but she has accepted the role in Bom Sucesso as it will only be for a few episodes

Marina Ruy Barbosa

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We recently completed Moses and the Ten Commandments ' first season (2/10/2019) on KTN Kenya and with so much action that led up to the finale when the Hebrews were let go and faced the Amalekites in the wilderness, there were characters who made the entire show very much worthwhile and engaged viewers in a catharsis of emotions. The first season gave us many characters to cherish but these 5 were a joy to watch as they did what they were all good at.

1. Yunet

Undoubtedly the top in the list, Yunet was the vilest of all villains encountered in the telenovela. Responsible for many things, to mention a few, cause of Henutmire not having any biological children of her own, killing Pharaoh Seti 1, spilling to Moses the fact that his Hebrew family was still alive against Henutmire's wishes, killing Maya, and a whole bunch of other stuff only the devil would concoct, actress ADRIANA GARAMBONE was sure to give life and substance to the character of Yunet, so much so that her death during the plague of hail and fire was a reason for immense sadness among viewers who were always on toes for her next evil move.















2. Simut

Simut is a pure-breed knucklehead, to say the least. His comedic antics and expressions made the public fall in love with him instantly. Not only did he have the capacity to make us laugh, but he also made us fall madly in love with the show and awaiting his next stupid remarks was a highlight for anyone watching the show. Simut, played by actor RENATO LIVERA, is very kind and gentle, so his clumsiness and innocent idiocy is an open respite to making him all the more interesting for us to watch, and we are more than thrilled that his royal puerileness has made it into season 2.




3. Ramses

Hir Royal Sexiness, The handsome king. He has the face, the body, the aura, but above all the tyranny that made him all the more fun to watch. Ramses was a crossbreed of someone who has a grand capacity to be ruthless while at the same time, could show some compassion especially when it came to Moses, whom he loved initially like a brother. His stubbornness irked us, but none of us minded seeing him shirtless at the Nile. The actor SERGIO MARONE gave Ramses all the qualities of a leader who was effective in thinking about the prosperity of his beloved Pi-Ramses, while at the same time successfully exuding a pervasive aura of arrogance that top-billed Ramses in the eyes of the public.








4. Apuki

We have to congratulate actor HEITOR MARTINEZ for his role as Apuki in the show. Married to a Hebrew, yet he loathed the race to the core. Apuki left nothing short of making us hate his sick guts, with evils like mercilessly killing Nun, which would have been the best reason for Joshua to hate him all the more, but the Hebrew chose to let it go for the love of his ( Apuki ) daughter, Anna. Apuki is an embodiment of the truest forms of prejudice and racism in the society, and the effects which it had even in pre-Jesus times. The actor put his all into the character and looks like it turned out magnificently done and above all convincing.






5. Nefertari

What made Nefertari undoubtedly annoying, in the long run, was the fact that she was queen and possessed immense power as a sovereign and the queen of the Two Lands. CAMILA RODRIGUES did a wonderful job transitioning from the quiet, sensible and likeable Nefertari to a ruthless, arrogant and ill-informed queen that she was up until the last phase of season one. There was no doubt at all that the actress' portrayal of Nefertari was the best exhibition of personality shift under different circumstances. Well done Camila!




What do you guys think? Is there any character you believe should be in this list? Who are your top 5 from season one? Like, comment and share the post, and let us discuss!

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