Malhação

Malhação
Created by	Andrea Maltarolli Emanuel Jacobina
Directed by	Mário Márcio Bandarra
Opening theme	"Pro Dia Nascer Feliz" - Titãs
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language(s)	Portuguese
No. of seasons	23
No. of episodes	5.378 (02/08/16)
Production
Location(s)	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Running time	30 minutes (1995-2013) 40 minutes (2014-2016)
Release
Original network	Brazil: Globo Network USA: Globo International
Picture format	480i 4:3 (SDTV) 1080i 16:9 (HDTV)
Original release	April 24, 1995 – present
External links
Website

Malhação (Brazilian Portuguese: [maʎa'sɐ̃w], Young Hearts in English) is a Brazilian soap-opera for the teenage audience. The series is being broadcast in several countries by Globo Internacional, including SIC (between 1995 and 2007, airing with the name "New Wave") in Portugal and by ABC Family in Canada. The series has inspired the creation of other series, such as Portuguese channel TVI's Morangos com Açúcar, which is strongly based on the Malhação format, and Brazilian channel Rede Record's, Alta Estação.

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 remained the same, it was set in the Múltipla Escolha (English: Multiple Choice) High School for nine seasons. In the twenty-second season, the location returned to be a gym, the Gael's Martial Arts Gym, placed within the art school Ribalta. The following season brought the school back. In the later the Academy setting back to "Academia Form".

By the end of the fourteenth season, each episode of Malhação began with a cold open technique, preceded by a retrospective of the previous episodes, continuing the narrative that follows. This technique was a brand of serial, used since the first season, but was abolished from the beginning of the fifteenth season.

Malhação reached its peak in the eleventh season, with Guilherme Berenguer, Juliana Didone and Marjorie Estiano, with the following season starring Fernanda Vasconcellos, Thiago Rodrigues and Joana Balaguer as the leads, and the ratings decreased from this season on reach an incredible 42 million viewers.

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