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mun2 “We Love Jenni” special celebrates life of Jenni Rivera

April 2, 2013 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Preceding the premiere week for the final season of I Love Jenni, which begins April 14, mun2 is leading off the week with a celebration of the life of Mexican-American singing icon Jenni Rivera with the new, one-hour special We Love Jenni, premiering April 7 at 9pm ET. RELATED: “I LOVE JENNI” SEASON 3 WILL PREMIERE APRIL 14 ON MUN2 We Love Jenni features interviews with many of Jenni Rivera’s celebrity friends and supporters, including Thalia, Snoop Lion, Carson Daly, Mario Lopez, Regional Mexican stars Horoscopos de Durango and Larry Hernandez, and actor Edward James Olmos. Also featured will be [...]

“Reventon” returns with dual premiere on Telemundo and mun2

February 13, 2013 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Reventon on mun2 is returning with a new season this weekend, Feb. 16-17, when it will be offered in a dual network premiere, shared between mun2 and Telemundo. The popular Regional Mexican music and lifestyle series will air Sundays at noon ET on mun2, and Saturdays at 1pm ET on Telemundo. Starting this Saturday, Feb. 16, at 1pm ET, Telemundo will premiere the first 2013 Reventon episode featuring exclusive interviews with regional Mexican music star Intocable. mun2 will then air the one-hour episode the following day, Sunday, Feb. 17, at noon ET. As part of the revamped 2013 Reventon, resident [...]

“I Love Jenni” Season 3 will premiere April 14 on mun2

February 12, 2013 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Updated April 9, 2013, 1:31pm CT Despite the tragic loss last December of its star and executive producer, Latin music superstar Jenni Rivera, mun2′s reality series I Love Jenni will go on, the network has announced. Season 3 (the final season) of I Love Jenni will premiere April 14 at 9pm ET on mun2 (in the U.S.) and air Sundays. mun2.tv will stream Episode 1 the day after it airs. (In Mexico and Latin America, the first episode of the final season of I Love Jenni will air on Telemundo’s Internacional cable channel on April 14.) RELATED: APRIL 7 “WE [...]

mun2 presents “We Love Jenni” special honoring Jenni Rivera

December 20, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Thousands of fans gathered in Los Angeles on Dec. 19 to say farewell to Jenni Rivera, who lost her life in a Dec. 9 plane crash, at a public memorial. Heartfelt speeches in Spanish and English, and chants of “Jen-ni! Jen-ni!” filled the air, and demonstrated just how much the singer connected with many people. That special connection between Jenni and her fans from all walks of life will further be shown this Friday, when mun2 honors with a one-hour tribute special called We Love Jenni Dec. 21 at 8pm and 10pm ET. We Love Jenni will remember the life [...]

mun2 remembers Jenni Rivera with “I Love Jenni” marathons

December 11, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Updated Dec. 13, 2012, 11:17am CT To honor its network star Jenni Rivera, who tragically lost her life in a plane crash on Sunday, mun2 will be continuing to air marathons of its original reality series in which Rivera starred and for which she was a co-executive producer, I Love Jenni. I Love Jenni followed the life of the Mexican-American singing superstar as she balanced life at home with her five children, a grandchild and a new husband with maintaining her life at the top of the Latin music charts. A marathon of I Love Jenni Season 2 (which had [...]

mun2 and Telemundo statement on Jenni Rivera

December 10, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Jenni Rivera performing at the 2012 Billboard Latin Music Awards in April

mun2 and Telemundo networks have released a statement on the tragic passing of singer Jenni Rivera, who, along with six others, died in a plane crash early Sunday outside of Monterrey, Mexico. Rivera had been involved with the two Spanish-language networks as the producer/star of the hit reality show I Love Jenni, as well as the producer of her daughter Janney Marin’s new show Chiquis ‘n Control. Statement from Diana Mogollon, general manager, mun2, and Emilio Romano, president, Telemundo Media: “It is with a heavy heart that both the mun2 and Telemundo Media family mourn the tragic passing of Mexican-American [...]

Singing star Jenni Rivera dead in plane crash

December 10, 2012 | By Stacey Harrison
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Mexican-American singing sensation Jenni Rivera was among those killed in a small plane crash Sunday in Mexico. In addition to her success as a singer, the 43-year-old Rivera was the star of I Love Jenni, a reality series following her life, on mun2. As the world mourns her passing, we remember an occasion our own Jeff Pfeiffer had to sit down with Jenni last year just before the second season of I Love Jenni premiered. E! Online has gathered some reactions from friends and celebrities reacting to the news.

“La Teniente” (“The Lieutenant”) to make U.S. premiere on mun2 in January

December 5, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Since making its debut on Azteca 7 in Mexico in September, the scripted action series La Teniente (The Lieutenant) has quickly become one of the top programs in the country. The much-buzzed-about show will be making its U.S. debut Jan. 13 at 10pm ET on mun2. The series will be shown on mun2 with English subtitles. La Teniente takes a cinematic approach to scripted TV, using locations throughout Mexico and top Spanish-language TV actors as it depicts the adventures of a Special Operations unit of the Mexican Navy. Centering on Mexican Naval graduate Lieutenant Roberta Ballesteros (María Fernanda Yepes), the [...]

“La Llorona” legend featured in two spooky Halloween TV episodes

October 12, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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I had been unfamiliar with the Latin American legend of “La Llorona” (“The Weeping Woman”) until compiling our list of this year’s Halloween programming. In doing so, I came upon two episodes of TV series that will feature this ghost story that apparently has deep roots in Latino culture. The legend of La Llorona tells of a distraught mother who drowned her children and then herself. The ghost of the mother emerges from the water and is forced to return to haunt and terrorize the living — mainly children, from the sounds of the descriptions of these two episodes featuring [...]

Eva Longoria, Ryan Lochte, “Devious Maids” cast on hand at 2012 ALMA Awards

September 19, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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This past Sunday, the 2012 National Council of La Raza (NCLR) American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Awards event was taped in Los Angeles, honoring American Latinos in the entertainment industry, television, film and music. The awards coincide with the start of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15). Once again, NBC will air a primetime special of the ALMA Awards, an hourlong program this Friday, Sept. 21, at 8pm ET. Eva Longoria and George Lopez returned to co-host the event, at which Christina Aguilera received the 2012 NCLR Special Achievement Award for her career and work in philanthropy. America Ferrara, Michael [...]