Four New Telenovelas To Premiere On Fox Life In April 2020

Telenovela fans have a lot to look forward to this April, with no less than four award-winning telenovela series set to premiere on FOX Life (DSTV 126 and StarSat 133). As of 20 April 2020, a three hour slot from Monday to Friday, from 15:50 – 19:10 CAT will be dedicated to screening back-to-back telenovela series, filled with passion, love, drama, vengeance and intrigue. These will be repeated in the evenings from 21:25 – 00:45. Additionally, weekend viewers will be able to enjoy omnibuses with the past week’s episodes, on Saturdays from 06:00 – 18:30 and 20:00 – 00:00, and on Sundays from 06:00 – 18:30, and 20:45 – 00:55.

Along Came Love, that will premiere at 15:50 CAT, follows the beautiful Luciana who, after being deported, returns to the USA to reunite with the only family she has left: her mother and brother. After arriving at the vineyard where both have worked for many years, she meets David, the landowner and finds something unexpected: love.

Continuing the drama and intrigue, in Secrets of the Hotel, at 16:40 CAT, a young man of humble origins travels to the Gran Hotel on outskirts of the San Cristóbal Tlaxico village to visit his sister Cristina who works as the floor supervisor. There, Julio discovers that more than a month after being dismissed for allegedly stealing from the hotel, she has disappeared from everyone’s memory. He decides to stay on as a waiter to investigate her disappearance but does not expect the love, mystery, death and betrayal that follow.

Shadows from the past will premiere at 17:30 CAT in which two rival families living in the village of Santa Lucía, the Mendozas and the Alococers, are involved in a whirlwind of passion, pain, and revenge. Severiano Mendoza and Candela Santana are a rich and powerful couple who live at the ranch, “Las Ánimas”, along with their young son, Cristóbal. Roberta and Raymundo Alcocer have a daughter named Alonza. However, they do not enjoy the same luxuries as the Mendoza family, which causes frustration and resentment in Roberta as nothing is enough to fill the inferiority complex that follows her like a shadow.

In Road to Destiny, (18:20 CAT) Luisa Fernanda Pérez, a beautiful, 18-year-old student, has two passions: mastering the violin and gardening, a skill she inherited from her father, Pedro, the former groundskeeper of the wealthy Altamirano family’s estate. A chance encounter with destiny alters her life when she is injured in a car accident caused by Luis (her biological father), a playboy lawyer. In the process, Luisa falls for his stepson, Carlos, the attractive, young doctor who treats her in hospital.

Another award winning telenovela, The Candidate joins the schedule in August. Like many women, Regina struggles every day for the welfare of her family, having to cope with a strained relationship with her husband and a rebellious teenage son. However, in her case everything is in sight, because she is the wife of Head of Government of the city and, as if that were not enough, an honorable senator, who always tries to do what is best for her fellow men. In the world of politics, a world where men build power at any cost, is Regina, who strives to improve the reality of people and impose ideals over power.

“We know that our audiences love this highly compelling genre of television, so we are thrilled to be bringing these multiple award-winning telenovelas to Fox Life, and to DSTV, for the first time” said Evert van der Veer, Vice President, Media Networks, The Walt Disney Company Africa.

How to tune in:
DSTV: 126
StarSat: 133 on DTH, 71 on DTT (216 on DTT in Uganda)

By Andrew Germishuys

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