Malhação
Malhação is a Brazilian soap-opera for the teenage audience. The series is being broadcast in several countries by Globo Internacional, including SIC in Portugal and by ABC Spark 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 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. From the twenty-fourth season onwards, the setting was changed back to the "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 from a high of 42 million viewers per week.
Since the program began, a total of 27 seasons have aired; a twenty-eighth season is currently under development.
Plot
The plot of Malhação tells stories of the everyday life of teenagers, their daily conflicts, including school, friends, families, and especially their relationships, which occupy the central focus of all the seasons. Every season, a different couple of protagonists occupies the core of the whole story.Cast
Similarly to the American soap operas and long-running TV Series, cast and characters change from year to year, but actors and characters who have stayed for long in the soap are, among others, Gustavo Goulart, whose characters Juninho and Bad Boy simply did transcend seasons with their lots of troubles throughout the Series in both 90's and 2000's, until the present moment. Alexandre Slaviero, whose character, Kiko, has experienced changes. And Sérgio Hondjakoff, whose character, Cabeção, was in the story from the seventh to twelfth seasons.Season list
Theme songs
Malhação has had 16 different theme songs:| # | Song | Artist | From | To |
| 1 | "Assim Caminha a Humanidade" | Lulu Santos | 24 April 1995 24 April 2015 | 15 October 1999 1 May 2015 |
| 2 | "Te Levar" | Charlie Brown Jr. | 18 October 1999 | 31 March 2006 |
| 3 | "Lutar Pelo Que é Meu" | Charlie Brown Jr. | 3 April 2006 | 12 October 2007 |
| 4 | "Paraíso Proibido" | Strike | 15 October 2007 | 1 August 2008 |
| 5 | "Daqui pra Frente" | Nx Zero | 4 August 2008 | 9 January 2009 |
| 6 | "Bem ou Mal" | NX Zero & Túlio Dek | 12 January 2009 | 6 November 2009 |
| 7 | "Quem eu sou?" | Hori | 9 November 2009 | 20 August 2010 |
| 8 | "Lourinha Bombril" | Bangalafumenga | 23 August 2010 | 26 August 2011 |
| 9 | "Todos" | Marcelo D2 ft. Macaco | 29 August 2011 | 10 August 2012 |
| 10 | "Tempos Modernos" | Jota Quest | 13 August 2012 | 5 July 2013 |
| 11 | "Família" | Nando Reis | 8 July 2013 | 11 July 2014 |
| 12 | "Agora Só Falta Você" | Pitty | 14 July 2014 | 14 August 2015 |
| 13 | "Vida Inteira " | Raimundos | 17 August 2015 | 2 August 2016 |
| 14 | "Pro Dia Nascer Feliz" | Titãs | 22 August 2016 | 3 May 2017 |
| 15 | "Bate a Poeira - Parte II" | Karol Conká | 8 May 2017 | 5 March 2018 |
| 16 | "Põe fé que já é" | Arnaldo Antunes | 7 March 2018 | 15 April 2019 |
| 17 | "Paula e Bebeto" | Milton Nascimento e IZA | 16 April 2019 | 3 April 2020 |