Lotte is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 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"...

 television series. The series is broadcast by the commercial station Tien, upon which it is shown every weekday at 6:30 pm.

The series is based on the Colombia

Colombia

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n telenovela Betty La Fea

Betty la fea

Yo soy Betty, la fea is a popular soap opera filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced between 1999 through 2001 by the Colombian network RCN . More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries...

and centres around the protagonist

Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...

, Lotte Pronk, an business economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 graduate who passed with honours and has trouble finding a job until she comes across a secretary

Secretary

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 job in an international fashion company called "Emoda", where at the same time a conflict is occurring in the business between two prospective CEOs.

She begins the series mocked by many of her fellow colleagues for being "ugly", and as the series progresses she develops confidence, moves up the ladder and explores romantic interests. The series also features on the fellow Emoda employees, and their relationships and career problems.

Lotte is written by a team of writers led by Marciel Witteman, also known for the Dutch soap opera

Soap opera

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 Goudkust, and scripts for the drama series

Drama

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 Westenwind. The series was directed  by Vincent Schuurman and Manin de Wilt.

Lotte is the first Dutch telenovela which in its original form was to consist of 200 episodes. On 11 December 2006, Tien officially announced that the series would get 35 extra episodes. Marciel Witteman wanted the extra episodes to round off the storylines of some of the characters. In the final episode all the characters were present.

On 9 April 2007, Lotte ended its run on Tien with its finale.

Cast

Character	Actor/Actress	Featured in
Lotte Pronk	Nyncke Beekhuyzen Nyncke Beekhuyzen Nyncke Beekhuyzen is a Dutch actress.Beekhuyzen was trained at the Amsterdamse Toneelschool & Kleinkunstacademie. In 2003, Beekhuyzen joined the medical television series IC, as Linda Ramirez...	All episodes
Vico Maesland	Lars Oostveen	All episodes
Robert Maesland	Filip Bolluyt	All episodes
Daniel Valkenburg	Arent-Jan Linde	Until episode 200
Marcella Valkenburg	Janna Fassaert	Until episode 200
Mark Cremers	Geert Hoes	All episodes
Niek Mulder	Marc Nochem	All episodes
José Pronk	Lieneke le Roux	All episodes
Herman Pronk	Dries Smits	Until episode 200
Hugo Lombardi	Dirk Zeelenberg	Until episode 200
Patricia Frijling	Ilse Heus	All episodes
Mara Fontein	Marlous Dirks	All episodes
Marianne Santos	Sonja Silva	All episodes
Bianca Geurts	Anne-Marie Jung	All episodes
Sofia Rombouts	Nartan Meerlo	All episodes
Rolph Ypema	Oren Schrijver	From episode 201
Scarlett Zwaan	Mimi Ferrer	From episode 201
Alex van Weerden	Edwin Jonker	From episode 201
Dieudonnee	Vreneli van Helbergen	From episode 222