Production:
Victoria is a remake of Señora Isabel, a 1993 Colombian soap. This story was also filmed for Mexican TV in 1997 as Mirada de mujer (The Gaze of a Woman). Telemundo plans to air the serial from Monday to Friday over about 26 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network will broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. This show's working titles were Tiempos de Victoria (Victoria's Times), Señora Isabeland The Mauricio Ochmann Project.
The show's premiere on Telemundo reached 782,000 core adult (ages 18-49) viewers, according to NTI, and over 1.5 million total viewers overall.The network expanded the series' run to about 160 chapters from the standard length, 120 shows. It has not announced whether it will remake Mirada's sequel, El Regreso (The Return). Geraldine Bazan won a Latin ACE Award for "Best Inspiring Young Actress" during her role as Paula.
Broadcast:
Victoria airs in Colombia as well as Telemundo in the United States, as Televisa (on Galavisión) in Mexico in Slovenia as POP TV and Acasǎ in Bucharest, Romania.
Alternate ending:
On August 4, 2008 Telemundo broadcast the alternate ending of Victoria through Yahoo! Telemundo. It was the first alternate ending of a Spanish Telenovela broadcasted by Telemundo in the United States.
Advertisements:
Product placements in the US version of this show include: JCPenney, T-Mobile Scrubbing Bubbles, Budweiser, Bud Light, Windex, Oust, Lysol, State Farm, Visa, Lowes, The Home Depot, Walmart and Pledge. In some cases, Telemundo news programs can be seen or heard while characters are watching TV, even though this show is not specifically set in the United States.
Cast:
* Victoria Ruffo .... Victoria Santiesteban de Mendoza - '
* Arturo Peniche ... Enrique Mendoza - '
* Mauricio Ochmann .... Jeronimo Ernesto Acosta - '
* Andrea López .... Tatiana López - former lover of Enrique, mother of enrique's child felipe"
* Hilda Abrahamz
* Diana Quijano .... Camila Matiz - friend of Victoria
* Javier Delgiudicce .... Gerardo Cárdenas - husband of Helena and father of Arturo
* Laura Perico .... Mariana Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, radio host
* Ricardo Abarca .... Santiago Mendoza - son of Victoria and Enrique, singer
* Adriana Romero....Valeria Saenz - Loves Jeronimo
* José Julián Gaviria....Martin Acosta - son of Silvia and Jeronimo
* Patricia Grisales]]..... - Carlota Velandia friend and adssociate of Victoria"
* Margalida Castro .... Mercedes 'Memé' de Santiesteban - mother of Victoria
* Laura Londoño .... Eliza - 'amiga de Mariana'
* Andrés Felipe Martínez ..... - 'Guillermo' - el jefe de Jeronimo
* Roberto Manrique .... Sebastian Villanueva - Paula's Husband
* Camilo Trujillo .... - Arturo Cardenas - son of Helena and Gerardo Cardenas
* Ricardo González .... - Henry - friend of Jeronimo
* Geraldine Bazan .... Paula Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, lawyer
* María Helena Doehring .... Helena de Cárdenas - wife of Gerardo and mother of Arturo
* Natalia Bedoya .... - Estrella - girlfriend of Santiago
* Julio del Mar .... - Bernardo Solis doctor of Camila
* Lucero Gómez
* Paola Díaz....Silvia - Jeronimo's ex-wife"
* Angela Carrisoza
* David de Oliveira
* Edmundo Troya
* Maria León Arias
* Rene Figueroa
* Fernando Corredor
* Luz Mary Arias .... Marlene
* Mariano Fernández
* Fabio Camero Jr.
* Maru Giraldo
* Gloria Pinilla
* Fernanda González
* Adriana López
* Daniel Calderón
* Naren Daryanani
* Victor Hugo Trespalacios
* Luis Carlos Galeano
* Sebastián Eslava
* Daniel Quintero
* Sonia Rico
* Diego Camacho
* Maria Emilia Kamper[5]
* Claudio Fernández
* Javier Felipe Rodríguez
* Mario A. Parra
* Paula A. Herrera
* Karol Aza
* Jackeline Aristizabal
* Alex Rodríguez
* Ximena Salamanca