Fernando Gaitan: Last News

Anna Marie de la Fuente Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has tapped Oscar-nominated scribe Guillermo Arriaga to be the creative lead on “Yo No Soy Mendoza,” an SPT project Colombian writer-creator Fernando Gaitan was developing before he died unexpectedly in January 2019.Gaitan was best known for his Colombian aspirational telenovela “Yo Soy Betty La Fea” (“Ugly Betty”), deemed by the Guinness World Records as the most successful telenovela in history.“Ugly Betty” aired in some 180 countries, was dubbed into 15 languages, and adapted in up to 28 territories, including China, India, South Africa, and the U.S.Gaitan had just signed a landmark content development deal with Sony Pictures Television, when he was felled by a heart attack at age

Amazon’s Prime Video has set the premiere day for Betty la Fea, the Story Continues, the sequel to the Colombian telenovela that inspired ABC’s, Ugly Betty.

Emiliano Granada Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello will reprise their roles in “Yo Soy Betty, La Fea” (“Ugly Betty”) in “Betty La Fea,” a sequel set to bow on Amazon’s Prime Video in 2024. Produced by Colombia’s Estudios RCN for Prime Video, the third season of the series picks up Betty’s story 20 years later when she’s a successful woman, mother and wife. Still married to Armando (Abello) and trying to rebuild her relationship with her adolescent daughter, she battles the economic crisis of her family company and wonders whether the path she has chosen in life has really made her happy.

By Peter White