Latin Lover (TV series)
Overview
Latin Lover is a joint telenovela
production between Venevisión
(Venezuela
), Iguana Producciones (Peru
), and Playboy Entertainment Group (USA). It centers around the production of a fictional telenovela (a novela-within-the-novela
, also translated as "Latin Lover"), and follows the lives (mainly the sex lives
) of the actor
s and production staff involved in the show, as well as other tangential characters. The show features a large main cast of at least 23 credited performers.
Each episode features a number of softcore pornographic and simulated sexy scenes, commonly including full frontal and rear nudity
, though rarely showing either male or female genitalia.
As of July 6, 2008, Latin Lover is broadcast in Canada by telelatino
, dubbed into English.
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"...
production between Venevisión
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...
(Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
), Iguana Producciones (Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
), and Playboy Entertainment Group (USA). It centers around the production of a fictional telenovela (a novela-within-the-novela
Story within a story
A story within a story, also rendered story-within-a-story, is a literary device in which one narrative is presented during the action of another narrative. Mise en abyme is the French term for a similar literary device...
, also translated as "Latin Lover"), and follows the lives (mainly the sex lives
Human sexual behavior
Human sexual activities or human sexual practices or human sexual behavior refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality. People engage in a variety of sexual acts from time to time, and for a wide variety of reasons...
) of the actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
s and production staff involved in the show, as well as other tangential characters. The show features a large main cast of at least 23 credited performers.
Each episode features a number of softcore pornographic and simulated sexy scenes, commonly including full frontal and rear nudity
Nudity
Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic. The amount of clothing worn depends on functional considerations and social considerations...
, though rarely showing either male or female genitalia.
As of July 6, 2008, Latin Lover is broadcast in Canada by telelatino
Telelatino
Telelatino, also referred to as TLN, is a Canadian Category A Specialty channel broadcasting general interest programming from Canada and around the world, primarily in Italian and Spanish...
, dubbed into English.