Toronto, July 20, 2012 -- TLN Telelatino, Canada’s leading multilingual specialty TV network, announced highlights of its English language shows for the coming TV season today. The lineup features a cross-cultural collection of drama, films, lifestyle shows and specials that radiate a passion for “Living life with Latin Gusto!”
“We take great pride in producing and curating a collection of shows that showcase the cross-cultural diversity that Canadians embrace” said TLN Telelatino President Aldo DiFelice. “We are also proud to now offer TLN viewers an enhanced viewing experience with our recently launched TLN HD channel.”
Comedy-Drama Series: 60 mins
Airs: Monday to Friday 6pm and 9pm
Fall/Winter
In its own uniquely stylised and highly entertaining way, for four seasons Ugly Betty challenged and embraced issues of beauty, ethnicity and sexual mores.
Airs: Nightly 10pm
Mucho Movies continues nightly at 10 pm, featuring first run titles, Che (Benicio del Toro, Julia Ormond, Rodrigo Santoro), Agora (Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella), The Air I Breathe (Andy Garcia) and The Girl in the Park (Alessandro Nivola, Sigourney Weaver).
Drama Series: 60 mins
Airs: Nightly following Mucho Movies
The Sopranos, a final toast to 86 unforgettable original episodes of a modern TV masterpiece, running nightly after midnight. Winner of eighteen Emmys and six Golden Globe Awards! Episode 1 starts Monday September 3, 2012.
Bilingual Drama: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
RPM Miami is a groundbreaking new, bilingual drama series about speed, corruption, danger and passionate love. Cast with today's hottest and sexiest new actors, it will teach you to both roll your "Rs" and spin your tires!
Bilingual Drama: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
An Australian produced mini-series about a clever and sassy female police detective from Melbourne whose family apparently wants her dead.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
A lifestyle series that captures the trials and tribulations of a new generation of young chef/owners in today's restaurant industry. The series features Craig Harding as he commits all he has to opening his own restaurant in the up and coming Dundas West area of Toronto. Follow Craig's journey as he blazes his own trail in pursuit of his dream. Watch him try to create that special place that connects with an entire city. Craig has to succeed, or he loses it all and everything is on the line.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
The stakes are raised as young chef Rob Rossi bets everything he has that his plans for a Bavarian style restaurant will translate into success in Toronto's hugely competitive dining scene. The runner up on Top Chef Canada will gamble on a massive space with an ambitious concept. But he's confident that his talent and vision will win the city over with Bestellen, a casual, energetic, neighbourhood eatery serving simple and honest, flavour forward food inspired by artisans and local farmers.
Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
This series explores international vineyards, wineries and colourful personalities, including visits to France, Australia, Portugal and Italy. Each segment takes you on an intoxicating journey across the country where there is lots of wine, history, folklore and cuisine to discover.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
From pasta to polenta, prosciutto to panna cotta, Italy is crammed full of mouth-watering food. Top chef Gary Rhodes, joined by two apprentices, takes an amazing trip along the length of the country, rooting out the very best dishes from the forgotten corners of Italy.
A cookery show, travelogue and love affair with Italy all rolled into one.
Travel/Lifestyle Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Venetian architect Francesco da Mosto celebrates the art and beauty of Italy - its cathedrals, churches, palaces, opera houses, paintings, sculpture and music. It is a story of the Italy we all know and love, enhanced by a look at the secret side of the country that only an insider can show us. Da Mosto reveals the full glories of Renaissance Italy and the country's astonishing cultural diversity.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
In this beautifully filmed food and drink series, the kings of Italian cuisine Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to Italy together to remember their own pasts and discover how the culinary capital of the world is changing the way it cooks and eats.The series is distinctly personal, drawing upon Antonio and Gennaro's upbringing in Italy through their memories and anecdotes whilst reflecting their sometimes fractious, often hilarious relationship.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
Lidia’s Italy in America brings viewers on a road trip into the heart of Italian‐American cooking. Join Lidia as she crosses the US to talk with fishermen, chefs, farmers, butchers, families and entrepreneurs to learn more about the rich and diverse development of Italian‐American culture.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 10am
Fall/Winter
Restaurant entrepreneurs Johnny and Damian bring their Texas sized appetites, hospitality and egos to the kitchen and create magical Italian classics as only two perpetually cheerful Italian-American food lovers can. Think of the BBC’s famous female duo “Two Fat Ladies”….then imagine they are not ladies, they have Texas drawls instead of English accents and they’d never choose to serve a meatloaf over a frittata! Johnny and Damian share all the cooking secrets of their large Italian families with a double dose of pure Texas fun.
Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 11am
Pioneering Spanish Chef José Andrés was recently featured on CBS' 60 Minutes where he took Anderson Cooper's taste buds on a savory tour of his culinary laboratory featuring his avant-garde cooking technique, molecular gastronomy. In this 26 episode culinary television tour de force, Chef Andrés takes viewers on a tour of Spain, both a cultural and culinary experience hosted by Spain's most influential unofficial ambassador to the world.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 12pm
Repeatedly honored over 2 decades with the most distinguished culinary and cultural awards, chef-restaurateur, cookbook author and television personality Rick Bayless has done more than any other culinary star to introduce Americans to authentic Mexican cuisine and to change the image of Mexican food in America. Travel with Rick and discover the real and varied flavours of Mexico, from the street food of Mexico City to the glorious eateries of Guadalajara.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 2pm and 5pm
Pack your bags because you’re going to Italy... Lidia’s Italy. Renowned chef Lidia Bastianich returns to TLN for another season! In the latest episodes Lidia travels to the beautiful regions of Calabria, Sardegna, Molise, Abruzzo, Basilicata and Le Marche getting inspiration for her delicious recipes.
Reality Series: 60 mins
Airs: Saturdays starting 6pm
Fall/Winter
Weekend evenings are for Fashionistas. Experience the glamour of fashion, Jersey style. Combining unmistakable style and no-nonsense attitude, this reality series follows the drama of the Scali’s, a New Jersey family who runs one of the Garden State’s most sought-after destinations for extravagant women’s formal wear Diane & Co.
Reality Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
A bride knows what she wants for her wedding — the dress, the flowers, even the icing on the cake! But with only a few weeks before the big day, celebrity event planner David Tutera shows up and changes everything transforming the fate of the party from less than ordinary to beyond extraordinary in the hit series My Fair Wedding.
Special: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Operatic pop group, Il Divo, perform their hits at an intimate concert in the beautiful surroundings of the London Coliseum.
Special: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli teams up with Canadian producer David Foster for a very special Christmas collection with some unique special guests.
An Italian Christmas Eve. A Mexican-American Christmas Day. A Chinese New Year. A Passover Seder. Four holidays, four very different tables and traditions. Join celebrity chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich as she travels across America in a celebration of culture through food in the new special, Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday Tables and Traditions.
Featuring Mario Cantone
Special: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
The special explores diverse cultural heritages as seen through the lens of its wedding ceremonies and the special foods and traditions associated with them. “Weddings are really telling of a culture, and they are all beautifully different,” says Lidia, who marries her passion for food with her love of family in the special. “Each ceremony is a celebration of family, continuity and new life.”
Special: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Lush scenery and mouth-watering ingredients create a visually stunning feast. Antonio Carluccio travels to Italy to cook the recipes of renaissance cook Bartolomeo Scappi, the man who invented Italian cuisine.
Special: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
A special portrait of the iconic Venetian “gondolier”. Picture the beauty that is Venice and the image of the gondolieris not far behind. The most romantic city on Earth and the thrill of the moonlit boat ride are inexorably intertwined.
Hosted by: Turkey
Airs: June 21 – July 13
TLN Telelatino is Canada’s multilingual language broadcaster of all major FIFA international tournaments through to the 2014 World Cup Brazil. Watch the future stars of the World Cup and catch all the passion as the world’s top soccer nations battle for the title.
Hosted by: Brazil
Airs: June 15 – June 30
The 8 heavy weight nations of the world, including already qualified Italy, Spain, Brazil and Mexico, compete in a 16 match elimination tournament as a pre-2014 teaser to FIFA’s World Cup. Catch the world’s most popular sporting event as TLN Telelatino is Canada’s multilingual language broadcaster of all FIFA tournaments until 2014.
Comedy-Drama Series: 60 mins
Airs: Monday to Friday 6pm and 9pm
Fall/Winter
In its own uniquely stylised and highly entertaining way, for four seasons Ugly Betty challenged and embraced issues of beauty, ethnicity and sexual mores.
Comedy Series: 30 mins
Airs: Weekdays 9am, 9:30am, 4pm and 4:30pm
After a successful launch on TLN, the hit family sitcom George Lopez is back for another season. Follow all six seasons of the hilarious antics of a working-class father and his working class friends, starring popular Mexican-American standup comedian George Lopez.
SKY TG 24
Airs: Weekdays 2pm
LIVE primetime direct link to Italy’s leading newscast. Stay connected with European and World affairs offering viewers headlines and the latest breaking news as it happens. Enjoy full access to all the latest updates on current events, politics, complete sports highlights, weather and entertainment.
RADIO ITALIA LIVE
Airs: Weekdays 12pm
5 hours a week of Radio Italia LIVE programming.
Italian Films: 120 mins
Airs: Thursdays & Fridays 7pm
Alongside favourite classics such as Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Vittorio DeSica’s Sciuscia, TLN’s “Cinema Italiano" presents an expanded line up of the best acclaimed contemporary feature films including Matteo Garrone’s Golden Globe nominee Gomorrah and Nanni Moretti’s award winning movie Quiet Chaos.
Italian Soap Opera: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 1pm
Tempesta D'Amore (Storm of Love) is the most widely-seen telenovela in Europe. Since 2005 it is one of the ten most successful and valuable drama series in Europe. Along with shows like CSI: Miami, House and The Mentalist, Storm of Love ranked number 8, making it the only non-Hollywood production in the Top Ten.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Airs: Mondays 7pm
Fall/Winter
The drama tells the story of I Cesaroni, an extended family composed of two divorcees, Julius and Lucy, who find each other and rediscover true love. Watch the adventures unfold as they move to Rome and start their life together with his three children and her two daughters.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Airs: Tuesdays starting 7pm
Canadian breakout hit comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie is about a small Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy. The series takes an unabashedly funny look at the congregation of a rural mosque and their attempt to live in harmony.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Airs: Tuesdays 8pm
Fall/Winter
Rookie Blue is a workplace drama about 5 rookie cops plunged into big city policing, a world where even the smallest mistake can have life-or-death consequences.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Airs: Wednesdays starting 7pm
Fall/Winter
In 1598, the first Italian explorer reached North America and the country now known as Canada. His name was Giovanni Caboto, or to the English, John Cabot. Little did he know, four hundred years later, Canada was to become home to almost 2 million people of Italian descent. From cuisine, to sports, arts, construction and culture; Italian Canadians have transformed their new home. This is La Nostra Storia.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
A uniquely Canadian, multilingual approach to examining the passion that Canadians of Euro-Latino descent have brought to soccer in Canada. Including the personal experiences of a man’s love for the beautiful game.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
Explores the impact Italian culture has had on home building and design in Canada. Looks at the multiple influences that shape design concepts affecting how we build dwellings and live in them, including a perfect cold cellar (cantina) for homemade wine.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
Have you ever been to an Italian wedding in Canada? The seven-course meal, the 400 guests, the endless food and pomp! Explores how Canadians of Italian descent meet the challenges and contradictions of maintaining family traditions.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
A follow up to the TLN original documentary Raccontami Ancora, this new series expands upon the scope of the original production with more characters, stories and insight into the unrelenting joys and challenges of Italian immigrant experiences in Montreal.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
Take a historical and cultural trip through one of the most beautiful yet lesser known regions of Italy. Journey to the birthplace or saints and heroes and have your senses overwhelmed by glorious scenery, fragrant lands, magnificent cuisine and rhythmic tarantella music.
Italian Mini Series: 60 mins
Airs: Mondays 8pm
Fall/Winter
The Kennedys, an eight episode miniseries, uses public events as a background to tell the intimate story of this iconic family. The series is about epic achievements and private failures, love, resentment, betrayal and most of all family loyalty.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Marco Tancredi, an ex Special Forces soldier, retires from service after a very serious accident and finds himself in a dangerous world where truth and lies are often intertwined. Tancredi has no option but to fight against the enemies within the Italian Secret Service.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
In Naples, florist Carlo Gambardella and biologist Valentina Trevisol meet one day by chance. Everything changes when Carlo and Valentina meet at the seaside and a strange case of mistaken identity puts Gaetano Gambardella in prison instead of Mafioso boss Tano Bambardella.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Gabriel Antinori is a young priest and theology professor who meets an attractive psychologist and their collaboration creates a special chemistry. Together they discover new perspectives to explain the mysteries they encounter.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
His dearest friends snatched his future from him; and now, with a new face and a new identity, he is back … and he´s out for revenge. Adventure, mystery, love and revenge are the main themes of the new series.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Two very different families from completely opposite backgrounds find themselves opening restaurants directly opposite one another in a street in the centre of Milan. Food can bring us together as well as tear us apart; this story sees both. It is about facing challenges in haute cuisine, through pranks, dirty tricks, laughs, surprises and misunderstandings.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Who killed Luca Monforte? Aurora is a modern-day heroine who fights for her freedom and her independence against all those who have plotted against her and imprisoned her. In the background lies an old feud between rival families, conspiracies, secrets, unspeakable sins and brothers competing for the love of one woman.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Host Maria De Filippi returns in one of Italy’s longtime beloved reality-talk shows.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Fall/Winter
Features some of the country’s most notable and hottest up-and-coming comedians.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Fall/Winter
Take an unprecedented journey through Italy. Soar high above the magnificent peaks of the Alps, to the rural fields of Tuscany, to the breathtaking coastal regions of Umbria and Basilicata, to the romantic canals of Venice, to the historical streets of ancient Rome. Bear witness to an inexhaustible reign of castles, fortresses and places of worship. Magnifica Italia is a true mosaic of cultures, nature and art revealing three millennia of history.
Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Weekdays 11am
Italian Canadian cooking heartthrob David Rocco returns to TLN. David Rocco’s Dolce Vita is part cooking show, part cultural expose . Inspired by ‘cucina povera’ or ‘peasant cuisine’ that is at the heart of Italian cooking, David makes dishes using simple ingredients. The show is a guide to all things Italian and how food is the starting point that brings friends and family together.
Spanish Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 5pm
Marisa, a strong and hard working young mother, moves to New York City to fulfill her dreams of creating a good life for herself and her son, Lalo. In New York City, she begins working at an upscale hotel, as a maid, and soon falls in love with one of the wealthy guests of the hotel, Cristobal Parker. However, fate and foil work against Marisa, and she must constantly face hardships and struggles.
Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 8pm
At the height of his boxing career Salvador find himself the victim of a ruthless plot that has him suspended from the sport for ten years. Struggling to find another source of income he relunctantly takes a job as a paid escort and discovers he has an uncanny ability to sense what his clients want and need. Now a champion both in the ring and in the bedroom, can he win the heart of the only woman he truly loves?
Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 9pm
A story of three families, the Aceves, the Negretes and the Nájeras, who in the midst of creating "El Talismán” – a prosperous ranch in California – end up creating a cursed ranch filled with hatred, rivalry and destruction.
Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Monday - Thursday 10pm
The story of ten friends, all members of a dangerous drug cartel; whose ambition for power and money drive them to turn on each other. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed telenovela El Cartel de los Sapos, El Cartel 2 returns with more secrets, new drug lords, more “rats” and total chaos!
Telenovela: 60 mins
The López women are beautiful, intelligent, kind and hardworking, but when it comes to romance they are cursed, condemned to eternal heartache. When Yamilet López, the youngest woman in the family, decides she’s fed up with loneliness and goes out determined to find a husband, her mother and grandmother become worried that she’ll be a victim of the “Love Curse”.
Telenovela: 60 mins
The most ambitious Colombian production to date, this series based on facts and real life testimonies follows the life of evil genius, Pablo Escobar - from his humble beginnings as the son of a school teacher in a small town near Medellín, through to drug-dealing his way to becoming one of the richest and most feared men in the world.
Spanish Series: 30 mins
Airs: Weekdays 6am and 7:30am
Stay connected with the latest news and current affairs from the Latin World daily with Noticiero Univision.
Airs: Sundays 5pm
Hosts Teresa Rodríguez y María Elena Salinas keep you current and informed as they take an in-depth look at today’s most controversial stories.
Airs: Weekdays 5pm LIVE
Brings you news from United States and from around the world. Plus enjoy Primer Impacto’s entertainment segments with the latest on movies, gossip, weather, and current affairs, all in Spanish.
Airs: Weekdays 11pm LIVE
A spin-off of the original Primer Impacto series featuring harder hitting news segments.
Airs: Sundays beginning at 8pm
Blockbuster hits continue to heat up Sunday evenings with popular titles including Loco por Mary (Cameron Diaz), Wallstreet (Charlie Sheen), Amor Ciego (Gwyneth Paltrow).
Cinelatino brings to Canada a 24 hour, 100% all Spanish channel offering the widest selection of current blockbuster hits and critically-acclaimed movie titles.
Mini-Series: 60 mins
The Kennedys, an eight episode miniseries, uses public events as a background to tell the intimate story of this iconic family. The series is about epic achievements and private failures, love, resentment, betrayal and most of all family loyalty.
Airs: Saturdays 8pm
With over 50 years of continuous programming, Sábado Gigante has become the longest running Spanish language TV show worldwide. A fan favourite, the variety show hosted by TV personality Don Franciso has been uniting musicians, comedians, celebrities and persons of interest with in studio and at home audiences for half a century.
Airs: Saturdays 5pm
Raúl de Molina and Lili Estefan, also known as El Gordo y La Flaca, host Latin America’s most popular gossip show, keeping you entertained and well informed with the latest celebrity news.
Airs: Weekends 2pm
Canada’s hit television series based on popular children’s books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux takes viewers into Caillou’s world and allows them to embark on exciting adventures to learn new things and have fun.
Airs: Daily 3:30pm
A superhero in her own mind, Mona’s got a nose for sniffing out the strange and the supernatural, and enough charisma to bring everybody along for the ride.
Airs: Nightly 9pm
Uniquely combining live action with comic book style animation, Los Misterios del Oráculo (Dark Oracle) follows the lives of 15 year old twins Cally and Lance Stone. Watch as they discover a comic book based on their alter egos and are plunged into a world of uncertainty where their every existence is at stake!
Airs: Weekends 7pm
Tune in and watch great movies the entire family can enjoy together. Featuring titles such as Kayla, a story about 12 years old Sam and his beloved dog Kayla who embark on an unforgettable adventure.
Airs: Weeknights 7pm
Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Prince Edward Island, Emily of New Moon is a brilliantly acted series which brings to life the endearing story of this heroine of classic Canadian literature.
Airs: Weeknights 8pm
Follow the adventures of a teenage detective who can't resist getting involved when there's a mystery to solve. As an intern at the neighborhood police department, Shelby follows the buzz on local criminal activities while trying to keep up with homework and chores.
Airs: Weekdays 6:30am & 12pm
A wildlife series that teaches young viewers about animals and empowers them to explore the world around them. Hosts, the Kratt Brothers along with lovely animal pal Zoboo, leap, run, dig and take mudbaths with the more than 500 animals that visit Animal Junction.
Music Special: 180 mins
December 31, 2012 - LIVE
Ring in the New Year Latino style with “¡Feliz 2013!”. Master of ceremonies and renowned TV personality Don Francisco leads audiences in celebrating Hispanic-America’s #1 New Year’s fiesta with a star studded concert featuring celebrity guests and live remote broadcasts from urban centers around the globe.
Music Special: 180 mins
Airs: February 2013 - LIVE
The record-breaking Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards is the longest-running Latin music awards show in Spanish-language television history paying homage to the many genres and the hottest names on the Latin music scene.
Exclusive Canadian Broadcast
Music Special: 180 mins
Airs: April 2013 – LIVE
Join TLN in celebrating the achievements of Latin America’s sizzling stars with the exclusive Canadian broadcast of the 2013 Billboard Latin Music Awards. Past winners include Ricky Martin and Shakira.
* All show times are in EST/ET
