Rebelde

Rebelde (English: Rebel) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa, broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas (now known simply as Las Estrellas). It is a remake of the Argentine telenovela, Rebelde Way, adapted for the Mexican youth audience, leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. Rebelde originally aired from Monday, 4 October 2004, to Friday, 2 June 2006. It was replaced with Código Postal.

Rebelde is set in the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding school on the outskirts of Mexico City, with a major plot line revolving around six adolescent students – Mía Colucci Cáceres (Anahí), Roberta Pardo Rey (Dulce María), Miguel Arango Cervera (Alfonso Herrera), Diego Bustamante (Christopher von Uckermann), Guadalupe "Lupita" Fernández (Maite Perroni) and Giovanni Méndez López (Christian Chávez) – forming a band. Additional subplots involve the school's faculty and the students' parents. One trademark of the telenovela is the random use of English words and phrases, often used by fresa characters.

Another notable aspect is that the actors playing the band members are themselves in an actual group named RBD and perform most of the music used on the telenovela, including the opening theme song, "Rebelde". The group achieved international success from 2004 until their separation in 2009 and sold over 15 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling Latin music acts of all time.

Univision aired Rebelde weekdays afternoon at 3pm/2c from 21 March 2005, to 15 December 2006, replacing Corazones al límite. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, 15 December 2006, with Las dos caras de Ana replacing it on Monday, 18 December 2006.

In 2021, Netflix announced a reboot of the show, set for release the following year. The series, also titled Rebelde, was released on 5 January 2022, and is set 16 years after the end of the soap opera.

Caesars Entertainment Group announced that Rebelde will take residence at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas for six months in June 2024.

Plot
The Elite Way School is a private boarding school with international prestige where high-class students receive a high level of education to be prepared for a great future. The school has a scholarship program for people with low financial resources who have an excellent academic level. However, few even graduate since they are persecuted by a secret society called "La Logia" ("The Lodge"), whose purpose is to conserve the purity of the privileged class. Among the students are Mía (Anahí), Roberta (Dulce María), Miguel (Alfonso Herrera), Diego (Christopher von Uckermann), Lupita (Maite Perroni) and Giovanni (Christian Chávez). Six adolescents who, despite their differences, discover something that will unite them above all – their love for music.

Starring

 * Enrique Rocha as León Bustamante
 * Juan Ferrara as Franco Colucci
 * Ninel Conde as Alma Rey
 * Patricio Borghetti as Enrique Madarriaga (seasons 1, 3)
 * Leticia Perdigón as Mayra Fernández
 * Anahí as Mía Colucci Cáceres
 * Dulce María as Roberta Alejandra Pardo Rey
 * Alfonso Herrera as Miguel Arango Cervera
 * Christopher von Uckermann as Diego Bustamante
 * Estefanía Villarreal as Celina Ferrer
 * Karla Cossío as Pilar Gandía
 * Zoraida Gómez as Jóse Luján Landeros
 * Jack Duarte as Tomás Goycolea
 * Maite Perroni as Guadalupe "Lupita" Fernández
 * Eddy Vilard as Teódoro "Téo" Ruiz Palacios
 * Angelique Boyer as Victoria "Vico" Paz
 * Rodrigo Nehme as Nicolás "Nico" Huber
 * Christian Chávez as Giovanni Méndez López
 * Michel Gurfi as Joaquín Mascaró (season 1)
 * Grettell Valdez as Renata Lizaldi (season 1)
 * Miguel Rodarte as Carlo Colucci (season 1)
 * Tony Dalton as Gastón Diestro
 * Héctor Gómez as Hilario Ortiz Tirado (season 1)
 * Nailea Norvind as Marina Casares de Colucci (seasons 2–3)
 * Derrick James as Santos Echagüe Robles / Santos Echague (seasons 2–3)
 * Diego Boneta as Rocco Bezauri (seasons 2–3)
 * María Fernanda Malo as Sol De La Riva (seasons 2–3)
 * Antonio Sáenz as Iñaki (seasons 2–3)
 * Allisson Lozano as Bianca Delight (seasons 2–3)
 * Viviana Ramos as Dolores "Lola" Arregui (seasons 2–3)
 * Ronald Duarte as Jack
 * Rafael Inclán as Guillermo Arregui (season 2)
 * Patsy as Inés (season 3)

Also starring

 * Felipe Nájera as Pascual Gandía
 * Pedro Weber "Chatanuga" as Pedro / Peter
 * María Fernanda García as Alicia Salazar
 * Manola Diez as Pepa
 * Xochitl Vigil as Rosa Fernández
 * Gabriela Bermúdez as Elena Cervera de Arango
 * Alejandra Peniche as Damiana Mitre de Ferrer
 * Lourdes Canale as Hilda Acosta / Profesora Hilda Bernard
 * Dobrina Cristeva as Yolanda "Yoli" Huber
 * Abraham Stavans as Joel Huber
 * Jorge Zamora as Maurice
 * Aitor Iturrioz as Esteban Nolasco
 * Tiaré Scanda as Galia Dunoff de Gandía
 * Roberto "Puck" Miranda as Cosme Méndez
 * Patricia Martínez as Luisa López de Méndez
 * Cynthia Coppelli as Mabel Bustamante
 * Salvador Julián as Carlos Velásquez
 * Liuba De Lasse as Catalina "Cata"
 * Yessica Salazar as Valeria Olivier (seasons 2–3)
 * Gerardo Klein as Fernando Ferrer (seasons 2–3)
 * Lisardo as Martín Reverte / Octavio Reverte (seasons 2–3)
 * Lourdes Reyes as Julia Lozano (seasons 2–3)
 * Claudia Schmidt as Sabrina Guzmán (seasons 2–3)
 * Alfonso Iturralde as Héctor Paz (seasons 2–3)
 * Roxana Martínez as Milagrosa (season 3)
 * Miguel Ángel Biaggio as Javier Alanis (season 3)

Recurring

 * Eleazar Gómez as Leonardo Francisco Blanco (season 2)
 * Florencia del Saracho as Romina (season 2)

Special guest stars

 * Hilary Duff as herself
 * La Quinta Estación as themselves
 * Lenny Kravitz as himself
 * Ricardo Montaner as himself
 * Tiziano Ferro as himself
 * José Ron as Enzo

Casual
Both girls and boys wear red sport jackets with matching ties, and long-sleeved white dress-shirts. Boys wear blue jeans and black dress-shoes with their jackets and shirts, while girls wear blue denim miniskirts and black knee-boots. Moreover, girls often untuck and tie up their white dress-shirts, exposing their midriff. Girls also wear regulation underwear: full-cut black briefs with matching sport-bras, as demonstrated by Mia in the series' pilot. In the last season, girls wear denim blue skirts with blue knee boots.

Alternate casual
In later seasons, some girls wear a different ensemble with their white dress-shirts: ochre plaid miniskirts and brown sport jackets, with black Mary Janes and white knee-socks.

Formal
Both girls and boys wear black sport jackets with matching ties, and long-sleeved blue dress-shirts. Boys wear black dress-slacks with matching dress-shoes, while girls wear dressy black miniskirts with matching knee-boots. Girls rarely tie up their formal dress-shirts.

RBD
One of the topics that marked the success of the telenovela was the formation of a group named RBD (abbreviation for "ReBelDe"). The production of the series conceived the idea of the musical group to promote both the characters and the show itself. The project quickly surpassed the telenovela in success, so much so that it can now be considered as a separate concept (as Erreway of Rebelde Way did in Argentina). The series was a great promotion for the group since it was able to reach all of Latin America, United States, and several European nations. The group is one of the most impressive in the Latin pop genre and has had great success in Hispanic countries, the U.S. and even Brazil, where the telenovela and the group were highly successful. The show's success was so great that during the third season, the producers decided to lengthen the time of the episodes to one hour and a half, being the first telenovela with such duration.

Main songs

 * "Rebelde" performed by RBD.
 * "Solo Quédate en Silencio" performed by RBD.
 * "Malas Intenciones" performed by Erik Rubín.
 * "Plástico" performed by Natasha.
 * "Sálvame" performed by Anahí (as part of RBD).
 * "Nuestro Amor" performed by RBD.
 * "Aún hay algo" performed by RBD.
 * "México, México" performed by Anahí, Dulce María and Maite Perroni.
 * "Tras de Mí" performed by RBD.
 * "Este corazón" performed by RBD.
 * "No Pares" performed by Dulce María (as part of RBD).