Maria Lucélia dos Santos is a Brazilian actress, director and producer. She received international acclaim for her leading role in the 1976 Rede Globo telenovela Isaura, The Slave Girl, broadcast in over 80 countries.
Big Brother Brasil is the Brazilian version of the Big Brother reality franchised television show based on the original Dutch television series of the same name, that was created in 1997 by John de Mol Jr.. It is the second one with more finished seasons and the only one with more than 20 years of uninterrupted annual transmission in the same channel.
The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian children's prop comedy television series which is about a clown named Loonette and her doll Molly who solve everyday problems on their eponymous couch. It aired from March 2, 1992, until December 29, 2006. It was produced by Cheryl Wagner and Robert Mills, directed by Wayne Moss, Robert Mills and Steve Wright. It premiered on March 2, 1992, in Canada and on January 9, 1995, in the United States on PBS stations across the country. The program was also broadcast on Treehouse TV from 1997 to 2011.
Lilian Ridgway, known professionally as Lynda Baron, was an English actress and singer. She is known for having played Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours (1976–1985) and its sequel, Still Open All Hours (2013–2016), Auntie Mabel in the award-winning children's series Come Outside (1993–1997), and the part of Linda Clarke in EastEnders in 2006 and from 2008 to 2009, with a brief return in 2016.
La Academia USA is the first musical reality show with only Hispanic contestants launched by Azteca America in October 2005. The auditions were done nationwide and a total of 30 people were chosen to go to Mexico where they would have to spend a week working hard and showing all of what they had inside to be chosen to the final 18.
Wie is de Mol? is a Dutch adventure reality competition show. It is based on the Belgian show De Mol, the original version of the format created in 1998 by Woestijnvis and broadcast on VRT.
Pedra sobre Pedra is a Brazilian telenovela co-produced by TV Globo (Brazil) and RTP (Portugal). It aired in Brazil from 6 January to 31 July 1992, with 179 episodes.
Ti Ti Ti is a Brazilian telenovela that originally aired on TV Globo from 19 July 2010 to 17 March 2011. Based on the 1985 telenovela Ti Ti Ti, written by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, the remake is created and written by Maria Adelaide Amaral. It featured in-universe characters from other Globo telenovelas, such as Plumas e Paetês (1980), Elas por Elas (1982), Locomotivas (1977) and Meu Bem, Meu Mal (1990).
Juliana Alves de Oliveira is a Brazilian actress, known to participate in the reality show Big Brother Brasil 3 in 2003. Alves won a spot in the program almost by accident: during a concert singer Luiz Melodia, she was approached by a producer of TV Globo, who invited her for an interview. This last step, Alves participated in various tests, to be chosen.
Andressa Alves da Silva, commonly known as Andressa Alves or simply Andressa, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for American National Women's Soccer League club Houston Dash. She previously played for Italian Serie A club AS Roma and FC Barcelona of the Spanish Primera División. She won her first cap for the Brazil women's national team in 2012 and has represented her country at multiple World Cups.
Sônia Maria Vieira Gonçalves, better known by her stage name Susana Vieira, is a Brazilian actress.
Planeta Xuxa was a Brazilian television program directed by Marlene Mattos and hosted by Xuxa Meneghel. It was aired by TV Globo from 5 April 1997 to 28 July 2002. Aimed to the family and to its original audience that had now grown-up, it was initially broadcasting on Saturday afternoons. In April 1998, the TV show was moved to Sunday afternoons due to the transmissions of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, remaining in this timeslot until its final broadcast in 2002. Was the first Sunday evening program of auditorium hosted by a woman on Brazilian television. This slot, which is considered one of the noblest and most disputed on Brazilian television, was previously occupied by television programs presented exclusively by men as Silvio Santos, Fausto Silva and Gugu Liberato had shows on that time. Later,Carla Perez, Márcia Goldschmidt and Eliana followed the Xuxa footsteps and also appeared on Sunday afternoons on Brazilian TV. The program was an absolute success with audience ratings, often surpassing Domingão do Faustão.During the six years of its production, the program achieved frightening audience averages that, according to the measurement of the time, made by IBOPE, reached almost 1/4 of the televisions turned on in the country at that time. Often was common that the audience numbers surpassing Domingão do Faustão.
Big Brother Brasil 16 was the sixteenth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 19, 2016 with the season finale airing April 5, 2016 on the Rede Globo. The show was produced by Endemol Globo and it was the last presented by journalist Pedro Bial, replaced by Tiago Leifert in 2017, after leaving the sports department, 1 year before the premiere of the talk show Conversa com Bial.
Vida Amélia Guedes Alves was a Brazilian actress and pioneer of early Brazilian television whose career spanned more than seventy years. In 1951, Alves made history when she and actor Walter Forster performed the first on-screen kiss ever broadcast on Brazilian television on the early telenovela series, Sua Vida Me Pertence. In 1963, Alves made television history once again by sharing the first gay kiss shown on Brazilian television with actress Geórgia Gomide on the teleteatro show, TV de Vanguarda.
The second season of Dancing Brasil premiered on Monday, July 24, 2017 at 10:30 p.m. on RecordTV.
Lia is a Brazilian miniseries produced by RecordTV and Casablanca. The series is created by Paula Richard. It premiered on 26 June 2018 and ended on 9 July 2018. Bruna Pazinato stars as the titular character. The series also has the participation of Graziella Schmitt, Felipe Cardoso, Augusto Garcia, Leandro Lima, Brenno Leone, Júlia Maggessi, and Suzana Alves.
Motshegetsi "Motsi" Mabuse is a South African dancer who lives in Germany. She is known for appearing on the German dance competition Let's Dance, originally as a professional dancer, and later as a judge on the show, a position she has held since 2011. Since 2019, she has served as a judge on the British version, Strictly Come Dancing.
Laura Alves was a Portuguese actress on stage, film and radio.
Thelma Regina Maria dos Santos Assis is a Brazilian doctor, television presenter, dancer and digital influencer. She is known for being the winner of the 20th season of Big Brother Brasil.
Big Brother Brasil 24 was the twenty-fourth season of Big Brother Brasil, which premiered on Monday, January 8, 2024 on TV Globo. The show was produced by Globo and hosted by Tadeu Schmidt, who returned for his third season as the host.
