Programming You Can’t Miss on ViX this August
SERIES
CENIZAS DE LA GLORIA | Original Series
Premieres: August 10
Synopsis: Cenizas de la Gloria explores the peculiar relationship between sports and crime. The triumphs and falls of six athletes of contemporary Mexico.
Their stories reveal that there is no game more intense than life.
Episode about: Esteban Loaiza
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
ELLAS SOY YO, GLORIA TREVI
Premieres: August 11
Synopsis: Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruíz, only fifteen years old, travels from Monterrey to Mexico City to participate in a television competition. A man twice her age watches her on screen. He will become her mentor and then her predator. For the next 17 years, he will subject her to a terrifying journey in which, after achieving success and fame, she will lose everything and will have to work hard to survive and rebuild herself.
Cast: Scarlet Gruber, Jorge Poza
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
EL SEÑOR DE LOS CIELOS Season 8 (uncensored)
Premieres: August
Synopsis: Aurelio Casillas, who became one of the most powerful drug traffickers in Mexico in the 1990s. He was nicknamed El señor de los cielos for using his fleet of planes to transport drugs. Aurelio’s ambition was not to be another drug dealer in the growing drug sales industry; but to be the best. Marco Mejía, a young Mexican police officer trained by the DEA, puts all his efforts into making Aurelio’s identity public, forcing him to go into hiding. For Mejía, catching Casillas is a matter of honor.
Cast: Rafael Amaya, Carmen Aub
Available territories: Mexico and Latin America
CUALQUIER PARECIDO | New Original Series
Premieres: August
Synopsis: Carlota, a Mexican actress, is married to a successful musician. Her life appears to be perfect, yet she is lonely and exhausted from her husband putting his career before the relationship. After going through a painful separation, Carlota discovers that the saying “happily ever after” is not always true, but that does not mean that she is no longer happy.
Cast: Camila Sodi, Luis Ernesto Franco, Jencarlos Canela
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
MOVIES
SELENA
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: Young. Beautiful. Enormously gifted. At 23, Selena shone as a fresh star in a vibrantly new musical field. But just as she was poised to be the next pop-music sensation, her life was tragically cut short.
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jackie Guerra
Available territories: U.S.
PREDATORS
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: A group of people travel to space without knowing that they are bait for a race of alien predators.
Cast: Alice Braga, Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Oleg Taktarov, Danny Trejo, Louis Ozawa Changchien
Available territories: U.S.
SPY GAME
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: CIA agent Nathan Muir is close to retiring when he discovers that his protégé, Tom Bishop, has been arrested in China for espionage. Muir hones all his irreverent skills and manners to find a way to free Bishop.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Robert Redford
Available territories: Mexico and Latin America
THE BANK JOB
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: Martine offers Terry a clue about a banking hit. Your goal is a room full of safes worth millions. However, the boxes lead them to the secrets of a deadly web of corruption.
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore,
Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David
Available territories: Mexico and Latin America
NOVELAS
ALCANZAR UNA ESTRELLA, season 2
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: Eduardo Casablanca puts out a call to find members to form a pop music group; but last minute he cancels everything to go on tour with his beloved girlfriend Lorena.
Cast S2: Ricky Martin, Sasha Sokol, Angélica Rivera, Erick Rubín, Bibi Gaytán
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
ROSALINDA
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: A young woman sells flowers to maintain herself, not knowing that she’s the granddaughter of a wealthy patriarch and falls for a painter who also ignores her identity.
Cast: Talia, Fernando Carrillo, Stellios Kalathas
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
CINE MEXICO (MEXICAN CINEMA)
EL ARRIBO DE CONRADO SIERRA
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: In the 40s, five sisters known as The Josephite Virgencites await the arrival of a man who is interested in the youngest of them, but defending their love will not be easy, since he will face the prejudices of a suffocating society.
Cast: Maite Perroni, Joaquín Cosió, Susana Dosamantes
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
COLOSIO, EL ASESINATO
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: The year 1994 was a turbulent year for Mexico. An important politician of the ruling party is assassinated after a meeting in Tijuana, everything suggests a terrible conspiracy.
Cast: José María Yazpik, Emiliano Carrillo, Kate del Castillo
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
CUANDO LOS HIJOS SE VAN
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: Raimundo announces that his dream is to be a great singer, his father does not take it well and gradually moves away from him. Raimundo is forced to leave his beautiful home after being accused of theft.
Cast: Sara Garcia, Fernando Soler
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
NICOTINA
Premieres: August 1
Synopsis: Lolo is a complex and shy boy, for whom his great ambition is to get his neighbor Andrea to fall in love with him. But Lolo is also a dangerous hacker who has negotiated a transaction with a member of the Russian mafia.
Cast: Diego Luna, Marta Belaustegui, Rosa María Bianchi
Available territories: Mexico and Latin America
NEWS
SEÑALES DEL CRIMEN CON ILIA CALDERÓN, FEMINICIDIOS
New Episodes
Synopsis: Señales de Crimen con Ilia Calderón ends its debut season streaming only on ViX this August. The true crime show delves into how and why specific crimes happened, the effect on the victims, their families, and friends in their own words as well as experts in criminology and psychology. The debut season of Señales de Crimen will focus on femicide cases in Mexico, the United States, and two additional Latin American countries.
Available territories: U.S., Mexico and Latin America
SPORTS
LMX TORNEO DE APERTURA 2023
Liga MX, the Mexican soccer First Division league championship 2023 Apertura tournament continues August 11, featuring exciting matches showcasing the best teams of the league including América, Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Pumas, Tigres and more.
Available territories: U.S. and Mexico
LMX FEMENIL TORNEO DE APERTURA
Liga MX Femenil, the highest division of women’s soccer in Mexico continues the 2023 Apertura tournament, featuring exciting matches showcasing the best teams of the league including América, Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Pumas and Tigres y más.
Available territories: U.S. and Mexico
2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World, the biggest women’s football tournament in the world comes to its exciting second half culminating in the grand finale on August 20. ViX brings all the matches of the most important women’s soccer competition to the streaming platform live from the Oceanic regions of Australia and New Zealand.
Available territories: Mexico
