''David'' is a
Flemish telenovela. It was the third telenovela of
Vtm and it followed the highly successful
''Sara'' and its successor ''
LouisLouise''. The first episodes were filmed in the
Dominican Republic, the other episodes were filmed in
Koksijde and the studios in
Lint
Lint may refer to:
* Fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
* Lint (material), an accumulation of fluffy fibers that collect on fabric
Places
* Lint, Belgium, a municipality located in Antwerp, Belgium
* Linț, a vill ...
. It aired for the first time on 18 September 2009. The first two episodes were screened for a selective audience at the casino of
Koksijde at 15 September. It was the first Flemish telenovela of Vtm that had a unique story and was entirely created for
Flanders. The story is about a young boy, David, who gets lost on an island. He is found there after 15 years by a young woman who brings him to civilization.
Story
During an exotic holiday boat trip in the
Dominican Republic, David falls from its boat and gets separated from his family. His family starts a search but without any result. They stop searching because the authorities makes them believe that David drowned in the water. But David survived but with
amnesia
Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or disease,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. but it can also be caused temporarily by the use ...
, and ended up on a lost island without any living human.
15 years later David is discovered by Sofie Klaerhout, a young woman who is travelling with her family. The family Klaerhout brings David to their home city
Koksijde to modern civilization where David has to adapt himself. Sofie and the gardener of the family, Maarten, take care about David but not everybody has such good intentions with the young man.
Step by step, David becomes able to enter modern civilization. By doing this, his memory returns. Sofie and David become very close and fall in love. Sofie starts a search for David's family. At the end, Sofie is able to reunite David with his father. David and Sofie get married and travel with David's father to
Miami. Together, David and Sofie will start a new life in the area around the
Amazon.
Main cast
Ratings
''David's'' first episode had an average of 716,000 viewers (it was broadcast in
prime time
Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...
at 8:35 pm. The second episode was broadcast at its regular hour, 6:30 pm. This ensured a fall in viewers of more than 50%. The ratings of David kept decreasing and had an average of 317,000 viewers.
At the end of the telenovela, VTM moved David to prime time again (for the last twenty episodes), ratings increased and reached an average of 660,000 viewers. The final episode gathered 714,001 viewers.
Vtm was disappointed with the lower ratings then David's successors
Sara
Sara may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment Film and television
* ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui
* ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda
* ''Sara'' (2010 film), 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhal ...
and
LouisLouise but decided to greenlight a fourth telenovela,
Ella
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* Ella (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname
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* Ella, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Ella, Oregon, an unincorporated community
* Ella, Pennsylvania, an unincorporate ...
.
References
External links
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2009 telenovelas
2009 Belgian television series debuts
2010 Belgian television series endings
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Flemish television shows
Belgian drama television shows
2000s Belgian television series
2010s Belgian television series
VTM (TV channel) original programming