Malhação

Malhação
Malhação brazilian Intertitle
Format	Drama, Comedy, Family, Romance / Soap Opera
Created by	Paula Amaral Izabel de Oliveira Patrícia Moretzsohn Andrea Maltarolli Emanuel Jacobina Cláudio Lisboa Celso Taddei Márcio Wilson
Directed by	Mário Márcio Bandarra
Opening theme	Lourinha Bombril, Bangalafumenga
Country of origin	Brazil
Language(s)	Portuguese
No. of seasons	19
No. of episodes	4000 (07/02/11)
Production
Location(s)	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Running time	35 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Brazil: Globo Network USA: Globo International
Picture format	480i 4:3 (SDTV) 1080i 16:9 (HDTV)
Original run	April 24, 1995 – present
External links
Website

Malhação (Workout in English) is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha (English: Multiple Choice) High School. In 2009, the location became a High School placed within a Shopping mall.

Malhação was very popular in Portugal (known as New Wave,when was broadcasted on SIC). The show inspired others soaps, like portuguese channel TVI's Morangos com Açúcar, which is strongly based on the Malhação format, and brazilian channel Rede Record's , Alta Estação (High Station).

The show reached its peak in 2004, with Guilherme Berenguer, Juliana Didone and Marjorie Estiano as the leads, and the ratings decreased from this season on reach an incredible 42 million viewers. In 2005 and 2006, Malhação lost a huge part of its fanbase to the Mexican teen soap Rebelde, airing at SBT. Malhação used the technique Cold open by the end of 2007.

Malhação main characters and actors since 1995

• 1995 - Héricles (Danton Mello) and Isabella (Juliana Martins)
• 1996 - Dado (Cláudio Heinrich) and Luiza (Fernanda Rodrigues)
• 1997 - Vudu (Pedro Vasconcellos) and Patrícia (Luana Piovani)
• 1998 - Bruno (Rodrigo Faro) and Alice (Cássia Linhares)
• 1998/1999 - Mocotó (André Marques) and Cacau (Juliana Baroni)
• 1999 - Rodrigo (Mário Frias) and Tati (Priscila Fantin)
• 2000 - Marcelo (Fábio Azevedo) and Joana (Ludmila Dayer)
• 2001 - Gui (Iran Malfitano) and Nanda (Rafaela Mandelli)
• 2002 - Pedro (Henri Castelli) and Júlia (Juliana Silveira)
• 2003 - Victor (Sérgio Marone) and Luísa (Manuela do Monte)
• 2004 - Gustavo (Guilherme Berenguer) and Letícia (Juliana Didone)
• 2005 - Bernardo (Thiago Rodrigues) and Betina (Fernanda Vasconcellos)
• 2006 - Cauã (Bernardo Melo Barreto) and Manuela (Luiza Valdetaro)
• 2007 - André (Rômulo Arantes Neto) and Marcela (Thaila Ayala)
• 2008 - Gustavo (Rafael Almeida) and Angelina (Sophie Charlotte)
• 2009 - Luciano (Micael Borges), Marina (Bianca Bin), Caio (Humberto Carrão)
• 2009/2010 - Bernardo Oliveira (Fiuk) and Cristiana (Cristiana Peres)
• 2010 - Pedro (Bruno Gissoni) and Catarina (Daniela Carvalho)
• 2011 - Gabriel (Caio Paduan), Cristal (Thaís Melchior), Alexia (Bia Arantes)

Like American soap operas, cast and characters change from year to year, but actors and characters who have stayed for long in the soap are, among others, Alexandre Slaviero whose character "Kiko" has experienced changes (he has gone from student, to bad boy, to steroid addict, to model) and Sérgio Hondjakoff, whose character Cabeção, was in the story from 2000 to 2005.

Logos

1995-1997	1998	1999-2002	2003-2005	2006-2007	2008-2009	2010/2011

Malhação around the world

• Country - timetables
• Australia - 00:15 h/17: 00h
• Japan - 17:50 h -
• Canada - 03:00 h/10: 50h
• United States - 03:00 h/10: 50h
• Mexico - 03:00 h/10: 50h
• Guatemala - 03:00 h/10: 50h
• Bolivia - 05:00 h/13: 15h
• Ecuador - 05:00 h/13: 15h
• Uruguay - 06:00 h/13: 50h
• Chile - 06:00 h/13: 50h
• Peru - 06:00 h/13: 50h
• Paraguay - 06:00 h/13: 50h
• Colombia - 06:00 h/13: 50h
• Venezuela - 06:00 h/13: 50h
• Spain - 11:00 h/17: 50h
• France - 11:00 h/17: 50h
• Italy - 11:00 h/17: 50h
• Swiss - 11:00 h/17: 50h
• Argentina - 11:35 h
• United Kingdom - 15:35 h/22: 40h
• Ireland - 15:35 h/22: 40h
• Holland - 16:35 h/23: 40h
• Germany - 16:35 h/23: 40h
• Brazil - 17:30 h
• Greece - 17:35 h
• Malhação arrives at the countries by Globo International.
• Malhação ID

See also

• List of Malhação cast members

External links

• (Portuguese) Official Website
• Malhação at the Internet Movie Database

This article incorporates information from this version of the equivalent article on the Portuguese Wikipedia.