‘Gordita Chronicles’ Gets Second Life At Tubi
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Everyone’s favorite Gordita is coming back! The Max original Gordita Chronicles is getting a second life on Tubi as they have acquired the rights to Season 1 and will be the exclusive AVOD home of the comedy.
All 10 episodes of the single-cam series will be available on March 29 at 7:30 a.m. PT. Created by Claudia Forestieri based on her real-life childhood experiences, Gordita Chronicles is about family, opportunity, love, resilience and boldly defying the status quo in pursuit of the “American Dream.” It tells the story of Cucu “Gordita” Castelli (Olivia Goncalves), who has just said goodbye to all of her friends and family in Santo Domingo and moved to Miami with her marketing executive father Víctor (Juan Javier Cardenas), bold and vivacious mother Adela (Diana-Maria Riva) and status-obsessed older sister Emilia (Savannah Nicole Ruiz).
While life in America is far from what they imagined, the Castellis are determined to take charge of their strange new world.
Additionally, Orange is the New Black star Dascha Polanco voiced adult Cucu. The series also boasted a list of executive producers with big names from Latino Hollywood like Eva Longoria, who also directed the pilot, and Zoe Saladana alongside her sisters/producing partners, Cisely and Mariel Saldana.
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