''Sin tetas no hay paraíso'' is a Spanish

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television series produced by Grundy Televisión for

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. It is an adaptation of the original homonymous format of

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. The series premiered on 9 January 2008, and ended on 20 December 2009 with a total of 3 seasons and forty-three episodes. After the end of the third season

announced a fourth season, but it was not produced. It stars

Amaia Salamanca Amaia Salamanca Urízar (born 28 March 1986) is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of the Colombian TV series '' Sin tetas no hay paraíso'' and as Alicia Alarcón in series '' Gran Hotel''. Bio ...

as the titular character. The series revolves around a love story of an innocent young woman, self-conscious about her little chest, and an attractive

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. The first two seasons starred

and

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. The latter only lasted two seasons in the series, since his character died at the end of the second season. On 8 January 2009,

broadcast the finale of the second season in which Silvestre's character was killed. The episode was watched by a total of 5.31 million viewers. The next day the channel broadcast another alternative ending where the protagonists lived a happy life and away from all the problems. The series was nominated for the

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Awards for Best National Series.

Cast

as Catalina Marcos Ruiz *

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as Cristina Calleja * María Castro as Jessica del Río * Xenia Tostado as Vanessa Suárez *

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as El Pertur * Álex García as José Moreno (seasons 2–3) *

as Rafael Duque (seasons 1–2) *

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as Tomás Castillo (seasons 1–2) * Armando del Río as Diego Torres (seasons 1–2) *

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as Ramón Amaya (seasons 1–2) * Álex Barahona as Alberto (seasons 1–2) * Cuca Escribano as Fina Ruiz (seasons 1–2) * Mario Bolaños as John Jairo Morón (seasons 1–2) *

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as Martín (season 3) *

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as Guillermo Mejía (season 3)

Differences to the Colombian version

The series has contributions to adapt history to the social reality of Spain. * The Colombian version stays closer to the book authored by Gustavo Bolívar. * The shanty-town environment is changed to a working-class neighborhood common in Madrid. * The motivations of the protagonist of the Spanish version is love, while in the Colombian series it was ambition. * Catalina's friends are cold and cunning in the Colombian version whereas in the Spanish version they are candid and naïf; similarly, Catalina's mother is driven by ambition in the Colombian version whereas she comes up as selfless and pretty much an archetype of perfect mother in the Spanish version.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1077065 2000s Spanish drama television series 2008 Spanish television series debuts 2009 Spanish television series endings Telecinco network series Spanish-language television shows Television shows set in Madrid Spanish television series based on Colombian television series