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A Corazón Abierto (With Heart Open) is an upcoming Colombian telenovela based on ABC's hit show Grey's Anatomy, it will be written and supervised by Colombian writer Fernando Gaitan better known for creating hit telenovelas like Yo soy Betty, la fea, Café con Aroma de Mujer, and Hasta que la Plata nos Separe ('Till Money Do Us Apart). Initially conceived as a weekly series, the story was modified to be aired 5 episodes a week in a telenovela format, that is why several changes have been made into the story.

Conception

After the experience with the remake of Desperate Housewives filmed in Argentina in 2005/2006, RCN Televisión, Visto Producciones and Disney Media Networks signed a second contract to produce a remake of Shonda Rhymes's Grey's Anatomy. It was initially conceived as a weekly serialized TV show, but the low ratings the remake of the Desperate Housewives remake they decided to make changes into the story to make it look more like a telenovela and this way it would be able to be aired five times a week like an ordinary telenovela.

Nevertheless, the course of the story will basically be the same as the original version, despite the fact that new characters have been added to reproduce specific aspects of the medical organization in Colombia.