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Desire (TV series)
Encyclopedia
Desire is an American
telenovela
which debuted at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on September 5, 2006, on the American
network
MyNetworkTV
, and ended on December 5. It was produced by Twentieth Television
. Show runner stated that the concept is loosely based on the hit CW young adult teen drama series Gossip Girl
which is still on air at present.
The program starred Sofia Milos
, Michelle Belegrin
, Nate Haden
, Kelly Albanese
, Zack Silva
, Chuti Tiu
, Jessie Ward
, Tanisha Harper
, Will Rolland, Al Bandiero
, Kristen Kerr
, and Eliana Alexander
. Haden and Silva played two brothers on the run from the Gamarras, a New Jersey
crime family. They run from Bayonne to Los Angeles
and become restaurateurs. Along the way, the pair find themselves on a heated trail of passion, betrayal, and murder over the woman they both loved (played by Belegrin
).
The Desire brand is also used as an umbrella name for Twentieth's limited-run serials.
In addition, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
has not announced plans to release this series on DVD
.
network to air in a weekend or midday time period. The idea was greenlit by Fox Television Stations Chairman Roger Ailes
as a contingency plan for Fox-owned UPN
stations. After receiving lukewarm response from stations not owned and operated by Fox, Twentieth Television decided to pitch the show for June 2006 on the premise that teenagers are out of school and planted in front of their TV sets, and that reruns dominate network schedules.
Desire had a few takers for a planned summer syndication run. Twentieth made those stations surrender the show, thanks to a clause in its contract that allows Fox to take away the show if it is carried by a network. It was also briefly considered for placement on The CW Television Network
, but was taken off the table by Fox for use on MyNetworkTV
.
Desire is based on the 2004 Colombia
n television program Mesa Para Tres
(Table for Three), which aired on Caracol TV
. Changes have been made in the location and the plot to make them more palatable to Americans. The serial was known as Table for Three and Three's a Crowd before its debut. The show was filmed at Stu Segall Productions
in San Diego, using 25 principal actors, 250 supporting actors and about 2,000 extras.http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115698811194650185.html
to run with different titles. The Desire name was intended as an umbrella for all the separate telenovelas
within. When MyNetworkTV
picked up the telenovelas
, Desire was used as the name of one series.
The network later revived the Desire name as an umbrella title. MyNetworkTV
promoted Wicked Wicked Games
and American Heiress as "part of the Desire series."
The program has also been sold to several international markets, however. In Asia, for example, Star World
debuted the show on November 7, 2006 and in the United Kingdom Trouble has picked up the rights to show the series.
and is called "Always on Your Side
". It was released on her Wildflower CD. We 3 Kings also performed music in various episodes.
filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission
, saying that the word "shit" was used in scripted dialogue during the September 21st broadcast. The group also said the show was rated "TV-14," without the "L" descriptor that notes strong language. It argued that MyNetworkTV was "deliberately breaking the indecency law" and deserves "stiff fines."
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
which debuted at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on September 5, 2006, on the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
, and ended on December 5. It was produced by Twentieth Television
Fox Television Studios
Fox Television Studios, Inc. is the TV production arm of the News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, as well as being the production arm of Fox and a production arm of 20th Century Fox Television, Inc., itself a division of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation...
. Show runner stated that the concept is loosely based on the hit CW young adult teen drama series Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl (TV series)
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007...
which is still on air at present.
The program starred Sofia Milos
Sofia Milos
Sofia Milos is an Italian/Greek actress. She is best known for her role as Yelina Salas on CSI: Miami.Milos was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to an Italian father and a Greek mother. In her teens she entered a local beauty pageant, and after winning first prize went on to win the provincial,...
, Michelle Belegrin
Michelle Belegrin
Michelle Belegrin is an American actress and model, who starred as Andrea Zavatti on the MyNetworkTV serial Desire. She has also modeled for Marie Claire, ELLE, and Fashion Quarterly. She recently appeared in the 2009 film, Blood and Bone, starring Michael Jai White.-External links:...
, Nate Haden
Nate Haden
Nathaniel "Nate" Richard Haden is an American actor who appeared in several TV shows. His most well known role is "Louis Thomas" in the TV drama series Desire .Haden grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska as the oldest of four children...
, Kelly Albanese
Kelly Albanese
Kelly Albanese is an American actress who is featured on the My Network TV telenovela Desire.As of July 2010, Albanese will star as the voice of Buffy Summers in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight motion comic produced by Maxx Inc...
, Zack Silva
Zack Silva
Zack Silva is an American actor known for his role as Alex Thomas on Desire. He is a martial arts enthusiast who also enjoys both improv and sketch comedy, as well as writing poetry, drawing and singing . He also enjoys reading comic books...
, Chuti Tiu
Chuti Tiu
Chuti Tiu is an Asian American actress of Chinese, Filipina and Spanish descent. Tiu studied at Northwestern University where she earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. She later got a lead role in Sally Field's directorial debut Beautiful a film based on the pageant experience...
, Jessie Ward
Jessie Ward (actress)
Jessie Ward , sometimes credited as Jessica Ward, is an American actress who is featured on the MyNetwork TV telenovelas: Desire and Wicked Wicked Games...
, Tanisha Harper
Tanisha Harper
Tanisha Mariko Harper is a model, actress and television host.- Early life :Harper was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is of African-American, and Cherokee Native American descent. At the age of fifteen years old she was discovered in a shopping mall in her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona...
, Will Rolland, Al Bandiero
Al Bandiero
Al Bandiero is an American award-winning film and television actor, known for playing Peter Evans in the TV series Desire.-Biography:...
, Kristen Kerr
Kristen Kerr
-Filmography:-External links:*...
, and Eliana Alexander
Eliana Alexander
Eliana Alexander is a Mexican actress. She has the ability to speak Spanish and English which she has used to portray roles in both Spanish and English telenovelas. She most recently portrayed the role of Rita Thomas on My Network TV's Desire....
. Haden and Silva played two brothers on the run from the Gamarras, a New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
crime family. They run from Bayonne to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
and become restaurateurs. Along the way, the pair find themselves on a heated trail of passion, betrayal, and murder over the woman they both loved (played by Belegrin
Michelle Belegrin
Michelle Belegrin is an American actress and model, who starred as Andrea Zavatti on the MyNetworkTV serial Desire. She has also modeled for Marie Claire, ELLE, and Fashion Quarterly. She recently appeared in the 2009 film, Blood and Bone, starring Michael Jai White.-External links:...
).
The Desire brand is also used as an umbrella name for Twentieth's limited-run serials.
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
In addition, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio. It was established in 1976 as Magnetic Video Corporation, and later as 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video and FoxVideo, Inc....
has not announced plans to release this series on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
.
Origins
The show first emerged in late 2005 as a September syndicated program for the stations on the FOXFox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
network to air in a weekend or midday time period. The idea was greenlit by Fox Television Stations Chairman Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W...
as a contingency plan for Fox-owned UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
stations. After receiving lukewarm response from stations not owned and operated by Fox, Twentieth Television decided to pitch the show for June 2006 on the premise that teenagers are out of school and planted in front of their TV sets, and that reruns dominate network schedules.
Desire had a few takers for a planned summer syndication run. Twentieth made those stations surrender the show, thanks to a clause in its contract that allows Fox to take away the show if it is carried by a network. It was also briefly considered for placement on The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
, but was taken off the table by Fox for use on MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
.
Desire is based on the 2004 Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n television program Mesa Para Tres
Mesa para tres
Mesa para tres is a 2004 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV.-Plot:Luis and Alejandro Toro arrive with their mother to Bogotá, after escaping their home town, where they owned a restaurant. In Bogotá they get a job at Zavatti, a high-class restaurant...
(Table for Three), which aired on Caracol TV
Caracol TV
Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...
. Changes have been made in the location and the plot to make them more palatable to Americans. The serial was known as Table for Three and Three's a Crowd before its debut. The show was filmed at Stu Segall Productions
Stu Segall Productions
Stu Segall Productions is a studio facility located in San Diego, California.-Filmings:The studio is used primarily for filming television series and movies in the San Diego area...
in San Diego, using 25 principal actors, 250 supporting actors and about 2,000 extras.http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115698811194650185.html
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Nate Haden Nate Haden Nathaniel "Nate" Richard Haden is an American actor who appeared in several TV shows. His most well known role is "Louis Thomas" in the TV drama series Desire .Haden grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska as the oldest of four children... |
Louis Thomas |
| Zack Silva Zack Silva Zack Silva is an American actor known for his role as Alex Thomas on Desire. He is a martial arts enthusiast who also enjoys both improv and sketch comedy, as well as writing poetry, drawing and singing . He also enjoys reading comic books... |
Alex Thomas |
| Michelle Belegrin Michelle Belegrin Michelle Belegrin is an American actress and model, who starred as Andrea Zavatti on the MyNetworkTV serial Desire. She has also modeled for Marie Claire, ELLE, and Fashion Quarterly. She recently appeared in the 2009 film, Blood and Bone, starring Michael Jai White.-External links:... |
Andrea Zavatti |
| Eliana Alexander Eliana Alexander Eliana Alexander is a Mexican actress. She has the ability to speak Spanish and English which she has used to portray roles in both Spanish and English telenovelas. She most recently portrayed the role of Rita Thomas on My Network TV's Desire.... |
Rita Thomas |
| Al Bandiero Al Bandiero Al Bandiero is an American award-winning film and television actor, known for playing Peter Evans in the TV series Desire.-Biography:... |
Peter Evans |
| Kelly Albanese Kelly Albanese Kelly Albanese is an American actress who is featured on the My Network TV telenovela Desire.As of July 2010, Albanese will star as the voice of Buffy Summers in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight motion comic produced by Maxx Inc... |
Cara Gamarra |
| Gregg Strouse Gregg Strouse Gregg Strouse is an American actor known for his role as Cully on Desire.-Filmography:*Saints and Sinners .... Yaz*Desire .... Cully*Echoboom .... Evan-External links:... |
Cully |
| Fiona Hunter | Erica |
| Vivian Gray Vivian Gray Vivian Gray is an actress and citizen of both the United Kingdom and Mexico. She has lived in both countries with her Scottish father and Mexican mother. Later, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and the Tisch School for the Arts at New York University... |
Suzy Edwards |
| Chuti Tiu Chuti Tiu Chuti Tiu is an Asian American actress of Chinese, Filipina and Spanish descent. Tiu studied at Northwestern University where she earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. She later got a lead role in Sally Field's directorial debut Beautiful a film based on the pageant experience... |
Detective Rachel Lin |
| Joe Tabbanella Joe Tabbanella Joe Tabbanella is an American actor who plays Stevens on the MyNetworkTV limited-run serial Saints & Sinners. He also played Marco Manetti on another MyNetworkTV telenovela, Desire. Tabbanella's other credits include The Young and the Restless, NCIS and Melrose Place.-External links:... |
Marco Manetti |
| Xavier Tournaud | Christoph |
| Alexandria Schlereth | Jessica |
| Tanisha Harper Tanisha Harper Tanisha Mariko Harper is a model, actress and television host.- Early life :Harper was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is of African-American, and Cherokee Native American descent. At the age of fifteen years old she was discovered in a shopping mall in her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona... |
Heather |
| Will Rolland | Detective Hawkins (Angelo Middione Gamarra Guard #1 |
The Desire Brand
The original format of the Desire syndicated program was for three telenovelasMyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
to run with different titles. The Desire name was intended as an umbrella for all the separate telenovelas
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
within. When MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
picked up the telenovelas
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
, Desire was used as the name of one series.
The network later revived the Desire name as an umbrella title. MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV telenovelas
The MyNetworkTV telenovelas were Fox Television's attempt to create a successful low-cost programming franchise by adapting Spanish-language telenovelas for U.S. viewers. While originally planned for syndication, the format became the original lineup of MyNetworkTV in 2006...
promoted Wicked Wicked Games
Wicked Wicked Games
Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. ...
and American Heiress as "part of the Desire series."
Performance
Ratings for Desire fell below expectations. The debut scored a 2.0 rating and the first week averaged an 0.8 rating and 1 share. It averaged a 0.4 rating in the adult 18-49 demographic.http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6372390.html?display=Breaking+News, falling to a 0.3 in its second week.http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10821The program has also been sold to several international markets, however. In Asia, for example, Star World
STAR World
STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
debuted the show on November 7, 2006 and in the United Kingdom Trouble has picked up the rights to show the series.
Theme
The theme song is sung by Sheryl CrowSheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...
and is called "Always on Your Side
Always on Your Side
"Always on Your Side" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, and is featured on her 2005 album, Wildflower. It was released as the second single from the album...
". It was released on her Wildflower CD. We 3 Kings also performed music in various episodes.
Profanity
The Parents Television CouncilParents Television Council
The Parents Television Council is a U.S. based advocacy group founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III in 1995 using the National Legion of Decency as a model...
filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
, saying that the word "shit" was used in scripted dialogue during the September 21st broadcast. The group also said the show was rated "TV-14," without the "L" descriptor that notes strong language. It argued that MyNetworkTV was "deliberately breaking the indecency law" and deserves "stiff fines."
International Sales
| Country | Alternate title/Translation | TV Network(s) | Series Premiere | Weekly Schedule | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desire | NTV | Unknown | Unknown |  Australia AustraliaAustralia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Desire | Arena (pay TV) ??? | Unknown | Unknown |
 United States United StatesUnited States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
Desire | MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation... (first run) |
September 5, 2006 | Weeknights 8:00pm ET North American Eastern Time Zone The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time... |
||||
 Saudi Arabia Arab WorldArab world The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the... |
Desire | MBC 4 MBC 4 MBC 4 is the first free-to-air national television channel in the Middle East aired specifically for American programs. The downside of this all is that MBC 2, MBC 3, MBC 4, MBC Action, MBC Max,and MBC Drama all show movies and TV programs that are edited: taking out all drug use, sexual content,... |
January 2007 | Weeknights 8:00pm KSA | ||||
 IsraelIsrael The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
Desire: Table for Three | Star World STAR World STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation... |
November 6, 2006 | Weeknights 8:00pm | ||||
 VietnamVietnam Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...  ThailandThailand Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the... |
Desire: Table for Three | Star World STAR World STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation... |
November 6, 2006 | Weeknights 9:00pm | ||||
 Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...  MongoliaMongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...  Malaysia  PhilippinesPhilippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...  SingaporeSingapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... |
Desire: Table for Three | Star World STAR World STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation... |
November 6, 2006 | Weeknights 10:00pm | ||||
 IndiaIndia India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...  BruneiBrunei Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...  Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...  PakistanPakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...  MaldivesMaldives The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and... |
Desire: Table for Three | Star World STAR World STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation... |
November 6, 2006 | Weeknights 11:00pm, Repeated weekdays 4:30pm. | ||||
| United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
Desire | Trouble | 13 November 2006 | Weekdays at 2pm, Repeated at 10pm. | ||||
 Japan JapanJapan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
Desire | GyaO | 2006 Autumn | Internet-based broadcast with updates 3 times a week | ||||
 Kingdom of Bulgaria BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east... |
Престъпления и страсти ("Crimes And Passions") | bTV | March 28, 2007 | Weeknights at 6pm | ||||
 Serbia SerbiaSerbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans... |
Zločin i strast (Crime and Passion) | Fox TV | June 21, 2007 | Weeknights at 6pm | ||||
 Norway NorwayNorway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... |
Desire | TV 2 Zebra | Unknown | Weeknights at 6.10 pm | ||||
 Finland FinlandFinland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... |
Pöytä kolmelle | MTV3 MTV3 MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials... |
Unknown | Unknown | ||||
 Sweden SwedenSweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... |
Desire | ZTV ZTV -History:The channel started in Sweden as a daily afternoon show in TV3 and TV4 in February 1991. The channel got its name as it was a simulcast version of the radio station Z Radio. There was also a Z magazine available for some time.... |
March 2, 2009 | Weeknights at 9.05 pm |