Machos (Canal 13)

(slogan: ) was a Chilean soap opera produced by Canal 13 in 2003. Its story follows the Mercader family, an accommodated and traditional family in Viña del Mar which has 7 children between 18-40 years (all male, hence the opera's name), and they rebel against their patriarch Ángel Mercader and the family's established authoritarianism. Machos became Canal 13's first soap opera after the crisis that the Dramatic Area suffered during the early 2000s, and became the best-selling Chilean TV product in history, even resulting in a Mexican adaptation made by TV Azteca.
When Machos ended its original run, Canal 13 aired Machos Gold, a re-run of the normal series but condensed into fewer episodes. Currently, Machos is being re-broadcast on Canal 13's current schedule as the first program of the channel's afternoon schedule at 14:45 after Teletrece Tarde, as part of their old re-broadcast soap operas. However, the channel announced that this re-run would end for the second half of 2021 and would be replaced by a re-run of the 1996 opera Adrenalina. The current state of Machos is that it is still re-broadcast after Adrenalina, but that can change soon.
==2003-present==
Category:Canal 13 (Chile)