¿Dónde está Elisa? (American TV series)

¿Dónde está Elisa? (English: Where is Elisa?) is a Spanish-language telenovela, written by Pablo Illanes, produced by TVN (Chile) and remade by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RCN, Colombia. The original mystery is a Chilean telenovela ¿Dónde Está Elisa? produced by TVN in 2009.

¿Dónde Está Elisa?
Genre	Thriller, action, crime, suspense, mystery
Directed by	Leonardo Galavís Nicolás Di Blasi
Starring	Sonya Smith Gabriel Porras Jorge Luis Pila Catherine Siachoque
Theme music composer	Tulio Cremisini
Country of origin	United States
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	107
Production
Executive producer	Aurelio Valcárcel Carroll
Producer	Martha Godoy
Production locations	Miami, Los Angeles, Malibu
Editor	Macorix Perera
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42–45 minutes
Release
Original network	Telemundo
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Stereophonic sound
Original release	March 8 (2010-03-08) – August 10, 2010 (2010-08-10)
Chronology
Preceded by	Victorinos Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso
Followed by	La Diosa Coronada
External links
Website

Telemundo began airing ¿Dónde Está Elisa? on March 8, 2010 airing weeknights at 10pm/9c over about 26 weeks during the 2010 season.[1] As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.[2]

The first sneak peek of the production was shown on Tuesday on January 13, 2010. The series was produced in Miami Florida. The filming started on January 27 and ended in May 2010. On July 26, the series shared the 1 hour time slot with another Telemundo telenovela La Diosa Coronada. The last episode of the series was aired on Tuesday on August 10, 2010.

A question is how much of DEE is based on the successful book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also known as Men Who Hate Women in English), a 2009 Swedish film adaptation of the novel Män som hatar kvinnor by the late Swedish author/journalist Stieg Larsson. DEE was written or adapted by Pablo Illanes, who wrote the Chilean version that preceded that of Telemundo. Illanes says that the inspiration of the story comes from the book and the real life drama of British native Madeleine McCann in Portugal. The list of suspects is long, and it includes family members, fellow students, and friends of the teenager who went to the same places that she used to go to before disappearing. There is a striking similarity between DEE and the previously aired Desaparecida, a relatively short telenovela aired in Spain.