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Guillermo Arriaga Takes Creative Lead in Sony Pictures Television Dramedy ‘Yo No Soy Mendoza’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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
