TV Azteca uses force to stop production of Telemundo reality show.
September 2, 2006
A TV Azteca contingent accompanied by a court clerk and members of Mexico City’s police, arrived at Estudios Ajusco last Friday, where Telemundo’s reality show Quinceañera was being filmed and shut down the production by court order.
On August 24, 2006, TV Azteca filed a suit with a Mexico City commercial court alleging that Nostromo, the producer of the show, and Alan Tacher, its host, were in breach of certain alleged contracts. A court clerk of the 5th Civil Court of Mexico City accompanied TV Azteca’s contingent to serve a summons related to their commercial dispute.
Telemundo contracted Nostromo, a US-based TV production company with experience in producing Spanish language television throughout the US, Mexico and Latin America, for the production of Quinceañera, investing over US$3 million and creating over 200 temporary construction jobs for the set and 300 production jobs.
