Senhora do Mar

Senhora do Mar (English title: Lady of Tides) is a Portuguese telenovela produced by SP Televisão and broadcast by SIC. It premiered on 5 February 2024. The telenovela is written by João Matos and Raquel Palermo with the collaboration of Ana Leiria Martins, Joana Ligeiro Oliveira, Patrícia Castanheira and Sofia Bairrão. It stars Sofia Ribeiro, Afonso Pimentel, Júlia Palha, João Jesus, João Reis, Vera Kolodzig, Ana Marta Ferreira and Pedro Hossi.

Plot
Azores, Terceira Island... A woman lies on the black sand of the beach at dusk. She looks dead. In the town of São Mateus, right next door, it's time for introspection and pilgrimages. But the pilgrimage is suddenly interrupted. A child has gone missing: Chico, the miracle baby, Flávia's son, whom everyone adores. The atmosphere is one of consternation. Nobody knows about him. The men gather to look for him. The women pray to the Holy Spirit. There are fears that he has fallen down a cliff. That he has died at sea. The women quickly turn on Anabela, the girl who was supposed to be looking after Chico. The woman on the beach is Joana, who has come in from the sea, tired and struggling for life. She has just turned 36, a few days before, and discovered that she is pregnant. This news, which would be a blessing for a woman who really wants to be a mother, has become a problem. Alexandre, her husband, is egoistic, controlling and sometimes violent. The fact that he is unemployed has made matters worse.

Recent times have been scary. It will be difficult to convince him that this is a good time to bring a child into the world... The worst thing is that Alex finds out about the pregnancy and reacts very badly. He seems to go mad, threatens Joana and pulls a gun on her. And Joana runs away, in the middle of the night, with no bag, no phone and no money.

In desperation, she hides on a sailboat, but ends up falling asleep. She wakes up hours later in the open sea. The owners of the boat are not to be trusted and Joana realizes that she has run away from one threat only to fall into another, even bigger one. Near Terceira, she thinks they're going to kill her and throws herself off the boat. She wakes up on the beach with Chico petting her. When she arrives in the village with the child on her lap, she is welcomed like a saint. The legend of the Lady of the Sea is born.

Cast

 * Sofia Ribeiro as Joana Gonçalves Pedrosa/Natália Rodrigues (known also as Senhora do Mar)
 * Afonso Pimentel as Manuel Bettencourt
 * Manuel Nabais as Young Manuel
 * Júlia Palha as Maria Silva Castro
 * Palha also plays Rosa Silva, Maria's mother
 * João Jesus as Pedro Bettencourt
 * TBA as Young Pedro
 * João Reis as Artur Bettencourt
 * João Maneira as Young Artur
 * Vera Kolodzig as Paula Soares
 * Ana Marta Ferreira as Susana Cordeiro
 * Pedro Hossi as Alexandre «Alex» Borges
 * Albano Jerónimo as Padre Filipe Pinheiro
 * Cláudia Vieira as Francisca Medeiros
 * Maria João Pinho as Leonor Pires
 * TBA as Young Leonor
 * Marcantonio Del Carlo as Alberto Melo
 * Francisco Fernandez as Young Alberto
 * Anabela Moreira as Márcia Guedes
 * Graciano Dias as Óscar Ramos
 * Henrique Mello as Young Óscar
 * Mariana Pacheco as Flávia Assunção
 * Hélder Agapito as Jesus Costa
 * Manuela Couto as Luísa Cordeiro
 * Zeca Medeiros as Abel Silva
 * Tomás Alves as Jaime Cordeiro
 * Ana Varela as Teresa Vilar
 * TBA as Young Teresa
 * Vítor Silva Costa as Michael Machado
 * Ana Lopes as Lurdes Pires
 * Ivo Alexandre as José «Zé» Batista
 * Inês Pires Tavares as Rita Bettencourt
 * Duarte Gomes as Ricardo Medeiros
 * Inês Sá Frias as Carla Guedes
 * TBA as Young Carla
 * Luís Lourenço as Rúben Semião
 * Inês Curado as Vanessa Santos
 * Beatriz Godinho as Beatriz Melo
 * Ivo Arroja as Renato Melo
 * Rodrigo Trindade as Robert Machado
 * Hélder Afonso as David Monteiro
 * Francisca Salgado as Anabela Guedes
 * Rita Loureiro as Madalena Bettencourt
 * Romeu Costa as Sérgio Pires

Guest stars

 * Marina Mota as Judite Gonçalves
 * Rita Blanco as Genoveva Ramalho
 * Virgílio Castelo as Adérito Ramalho

Production
In 2023, the pre-production for the telenovela began. Months later, the first scenes began to be filmed on 27 November 2023 in Terceira Island, Azores, and later on SP Televisão studios and on the outskirts of Lisboa. On 28 June 2024 the last scenes were filmed.

Ratings
Premiering with the purpose of raising the audiences left with Amor Amor - Vol. 2, Senhora do Mar saw one of the worst pilot-episode rating of the first track of telenovelas broadcast by SIC, drawing a rating of 8.4 points and audience share of 16.4%. Still, it managed to raise the audience left by Papel Principal and Flor sem Tempo.

Since the first episode, the telenovela begins to show some leadship in the audiences, although not be every day. After the premiere of A Promessa, and also coinciding with the arrival of part 2 of the telenovela, it became the leader of the audiences.