''Mesa para tres'' ("Table for Three") is a 2004

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produced and broadcast by Caracol TV.

Plot

Luis and Alejandro Toro arrive with their mother to

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, after escaping their home town, where they owned a restaurant. In Bogotá they get a job at ''Zavatti'', a high-class restaurant. Both Luis and Alejandro meet and fall in love with Andrea Zavatti, who is the daughter of Harold Zavatti, the owner of the restaurant. George Brown, who is Andrea's boyfriend, tries to get rid from the Toro brothers, as he is only interested in Mr Zavatti's fortune. Luis is kidnapped and thought dead, Andrea and Alejandro get together and, when Luis appears again, feels betrayed by Alejandro.

Cast

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as Luis Toro *

Diego Cadavid Diego Cadavid (born Diego Andrés Cadavid on December 8, 1978 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian actor, cinematographer and musician known for his roles in telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera pro ...

as Alejandro ''Alejo'' Toro * Catalina Aristizábal as Andrea Zavatti *

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as George Brown * Mayte Vilan as Blanca Patricia Melo * Myriam de Lourdes as Rita * Clemencia Guillén as Tía Martha *

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as Leonor Torres "Leito" *Álvaro Rodríguez as Francisco ''Paco'' *

Luis Fernando Múnera Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

as Justo Gamarra * Yuli Ferreira as Violeta Gamarra * Sandra Guzmán as Marta Consuelo Sandoval * Anderson Balsero as Lalo *

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as Harold Zavatti * María Cristi Gálvez as Victoria Stevens de Brown * Estefanía Borge as Kathy Noguera * Álvaro Bayona as Teniente Abril * Astrid Junguito as Fidelina Torres * Manolo Orjuela as Farfán *

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as Ramón Tavernero *

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as Guillermo Flórez *Santiago More as Gerardo Pinzón *

Valentina Rendón Valentina Rendón Escobar is a Colombian actress, singer and writer. Rendón studied industrial design at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales but, after winning a scholarship offered by RCN TV, went to live to Bogotá to become an actres ...

as Claudia * Tania Fálquez as Tte. Ángela Barrera * Daniel Rocha as Carmelo Sepúlveda * Andrés Toro as Andrés * Genoveva Caro as Martha * Felipe Noguera as Daniel

Theme song

The song used as

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was the 1981 hit ''Te quiero para mí'', by Spanish group

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International broadcasting

The series was sold to several networks in

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, including

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. In 2007, ClubIT Arena bought the rights to offer a subtitled version of ''Mesa para tres'' on its website in

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, under the title ''Andrea, ai to ryakudatsu no honoo (アンドレア〜愛と略奪の炎)''. It was divided in 4 "seasons" (3 of 30 episodes each, and one of 28 episodes).

MyNetworkTV telenovelas

''Mesa para tres'' was the basis for the 2006 MyNetworkTV

Desire Desires are states of mind that are expressed by terms like "wanting", "wishing", "longing" or "craving". A great variety of features is commonly associated with desires. They are seen as propositional attitudes towards conceivable states of aff ...

''. Changes were 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 extra

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.,Ben Grossman
MNT Gets Off to Modest Start
''

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'', 14 September 2006 falling to a 0.3 in its second week. However, the show was sold to several international markets.

References

External links

*
Caracol TV International catalogue
*

''Mesa para tres'', with Japanese subtitles. * {{Caracol Televisión telenovelas 2004 telenovelas 2004 Colombian television series debuts 2004 Colombian television series endings Colombian telenovelas Caracol Televisión telenovelas Spanish-language telenovelas Television shows set in Bogotá