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Herrera to Star in Netflix’s Sci-fi Drama Series “Sense8”

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Alfonso Herrera is going global for his next project…

The 30-year-old Mexican actor, a former member of Mexican music group RBD, has joined the international cast of Netflix’s sci-fi drama series Sense8.

Alfonso Herrera

There’s no word not on Herrera’s role in the 10-episode series from Lana and Andy Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, which is described as “a grippingglobal tale of minds linked and souls hunted” that incorporates the Wachowskis’ storytelling style.

“The series follows eight characters around the world who, in the aftermath of a tragic death, find themselves linked to each other mentally and emotionally,” Straczynski tells Deadline.com. “They can not only see and talk to each other as though they were in the same place, they have access to each other’s deepest secrets. Not only must they figure out what happened and why and what it means for the future of humanity, they must do sowhile being hunted by an organization out to capture, kill or vivisect them.”

In addition to Herrera, the series will starTuppence Middleton, Aml Ameen, Freema Agyeman, Tena Desae, Doona Bae, Max Riemelt,  Erendira Ibarra, Jamie Clayton, Miguel Silvestre and Terrence Mann.

Sense8, which isexpected to debut next year, will be shot in nine locations on four continents: Chicago, San Francisco, London, Iceland, Seoul, Mumbai, Berlin, Mexico City and Nairobi.

ABC Family Orders the Mexican Telenovela Remake of “Chasing Life”

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Lifetime’s Devious Maids isn’t the only new U.S. television program based on a Mexican series…

ABC Family has given a  series order to the drama Chasing Life, which  was originally called Terminales, for an early 2014 launch.

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Chasing Life, which received a 13-episode order, according to Deadline.com, joins new ABC Family drama series The Fosters and Twisted, meaning all three of the network’s pilots from the most recent cycle are going to series.

Chasing Life is an adaptation of the successful Televisa Spanish-language series Terminales. The pilot was produced by Lionsgate in association with Televisa.

Chasing Life stars Italia Ricci as April, an ambitious young newspaper reporter who tries to balance her career aspirations with her family — her widowed mom Sara (Mary Page Keller), rebellious little sister Brenna (Haley Ramm), and her grandmother. Just as things start to look up at work, home and on the romance front with co-worker Dominic (Richard Brancatisano), April gets the devastating news from an estranged uncle that she has cancer.

The Mexican version, which premiered in September 2008, stars Ana Claudia Talancón, Alfonso Herrera, Andrés Almeida, Isela Vega, Opi Domínguez and Danny Perea.

ABC Family Orders Pilot For Remake of Mexican Series “Terminales”

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It appears Devious Maids may not be the only new series based on a successful Mexican program…

ABC Family has signed off on a pilot order for the one-hour drama Terminales, an adaptation of Televisa’s original series of the same name.

Terminales

Created and produced by Miguel Ángel Fox , the series chronicles the life of young and successful publicist April Marquez, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. It’s described as Sex And The City if Carrie Bradshaw was dying of cancer.

The Mexican version, which premiered in September 2008, stars Ana Claudia Talancón, Alfonso Herrera, Andrés Almeida, Isela Vega, Opi Domínguez and Danny Perea.

The pilot for the American remake was written by Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz. Aaron Kaplan, Fogel and Lefkowitz will serve as executive producers.

Produced by Lionsgate in association with Televisa, the pilot will go into production this fall along with Jennifer Lopez’s previously announced drama pilot The Fosters (working title).