A broadcaster of distinction, Azteca Trece has aired more than 20 shows between 1997 and N/A. Icons of Azteca Trece, La Chacala and Mirada de Mujer made their debut in 1997 and 1997, setting industry standards. Peruse our comprehensive roster of Azteca Trece’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of August 2025.
Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.
A rich and handsome architect is flying from Acapulco to Mexico City when his plane crashes. A beautiful, young girl finds him in the forest and decides to bring him home to look after him.
La Loba is a Mexican telenovela by TV Azteca. It premiered on 2010. The protagonists are the international stars Ivonne Montero and Mauricio Islas. Grand actors such as Regina Torne, Omar Fierro, Ana Ciochetti, Fernando Becerril and Marta Aura also included as cast members. In the final 2 weeks, episodes are halved to give way to Maricarmen's new telenovela, Entre el Amor y el Deseo
Javier takes Delia, his pregnant wife, to his ranch in a remote village. Although she's surrounded with love and comfort, Delia has an uneasy feeling. One day, Javier goes out hunting and kills a deer, which to his horror turns out to be a man. Javier's servants toss the corpse over a canyon and tell him to forget the incident, but the dead man's ghost seeks out his mother, the local witch, and begs her to avenge his murder. The witch turns up at Javier´s ranch, and under a mysterious and unexpected shower of thunder and lightning, curses the family. Javier's wife shall bear twin daughters, one of which shall be a fearsome demoness. A day later, Delia goes into labor and gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Everybody feels calmer after the birth, yet a couple of hours later, Delia gets labor pains again. This time she's ripped apart by another baby girl. Delia bleeds to death, yet because the two girls look identical, both healthy and beautiful, it´s hard to know which one killed her mother. Several years later, the identical twins have very different personalities. Gilda is an independent doctor and a city dweller. Her twin Liliana is a frail invalid who resides in the ranch. However, one of them harbors inside the dreadful Chacala, which will soon materialize to wreak havoc among those around her.
Amor en Custodia is a Mexican television drama, inspired by the popular Argentine telenovela of the same name, and developed and produced by Emilia Lamothe. Amor en Custodia focuses on and satirizes the lives of socialite teens and young adults growing up in Mexico city. It deals with sexuality, drugs, money, jealousy and other issues. It first aired on June 19, 2005 in Mexico City, on Canal 7, and was broadcast nationally a day later by TV Azteca. The pilot episode was also made available as a free download on the series' official website. The series was first shown in the United States by Azteca America on July 18, 2005, and the final episode of the final season was broadcast in Mexico on September 12, 2008 and in the USA on October 3. Amor en Custodia holds the record for longest TV series in Mexico, with eleven seasons and 280 episodes. It has been shown in more than 13 countries, including the USA, Europe, Japan, Thailand, and Latin America, and has been translated into English, French, Japanese, and German.
La Isla also known as La Isla: El Reality is a Mexican reality show that aired on August 20, 2012 It was produced by Be-Tv together with TV Azteca and is based on the Colombian Reality Desafío Caracol TV.. The program shows three groups of players: the first two are composed of Mexican characters, known as famosos and showbiz celebridades, and a third team players called The Desconocidos.
Como en el Cine is a Mexican telenovela produced by TV Azteca in 2001. Created by Veronica Suarez, it was directed, produced and executive produced by Don Antulio Jimenez Pons. Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Ochmann are the Main Protagonists.
Cuando Seas Mia is a Mexican telenovela produced by TV Azteca. It was the second reunion for Silvia Navarro and Sergio Basañez as protagonists.
La mujer de Judas is a Mexican telenovela produced by Maricarmen Marcos for Azteca. It is based on Venezuelan novela of the same name. It stars Anette Michel, Victor Gonzalez, and Andrea Marti. It replaced Cielo Rojo on January 13, 2012. Adapted by Paz Aguirre and Gabriel Santos, this adaptation is supervised by the original writer, Martin Hahn.
Mirada de mujer is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on TV Azteca in 1997, based in the Colombian telenovela of 1994 " Señora Isabel". It is considered one of the best Telenovelas in the history of the television industry in Mexico. It came a year after TV Azteca's first telenovela, Nada personal and was the first telenovela in that TV station for its five mayor stars, who had been working for the rival station, Televisa, prior to this production. In 2003 the sequel for this telenovela Mirada de mujer: El Regreso was produced. This telenovela can be dated so far as the only TV Azteca telenovela that got the TVyNovelas Award as Best Telenovela of the Year in a shocking moment, making Televisa know to the audience the respect that got over his competitor product as long as the TVyNovelas Awards are only given to Televisa programs. Aside from enjoying wide viewership in Latin America, it was also broadcast in countries like Afghanistan and Israel and Eastern Europe. In India, this was shown by Sahara TV, dubbed in Hindi, under the title of Maria.
The main theme of the series tells the story about private lives of a group of women who are frequent clients of “Angelica Style”, a prestigious beauty clinic. This group of women, Angelica, Nora, Mercedes, Samantha, Loreto, Vanesa, Lilí, Gabriela, Fernanda and Cecilia, have one thing in common: they have all failed to find the men of their dreams. As the stories blend, their different personalities are shown and their deepest wishes are revealed. They want to find a man who can understand them with freedom and love.
Perla is a Mexican telenovela produced by TV Azteca and it starred Silvia Navarro and Leonardo Garcia as protagonists.
La Duda is a telenovela broadcast in Mexico by the TV Azteca network.
Amores Cruzados is a telenovela produced by TV Azteca and Caracol TV Internacional. It premiered on 2006. The protagonists are David Zepeda, Michel Gurfi, Ana Lucia Dominguez and patricia Vasquez. The telenovela was film in Mexico and Colombia.
Diana Cervantes is a simple and lukewarm secretary to Andrés Lascurain, since she seeks the love of her life when she is hired, she falls in love with Andrés, enduring the misdeeds and injustices of Denisse, who is committed to Andrés, to be his future wife. Andrés and Diana marry leaving Denisse out of her life, while she is an accomplice and lover of Roberto Meráz, who has a dark past with Andrés and has a desire to take revenge. Andres has a family with his late wife (as believed dead) made up of the children Elisa, Claudia, Andresito, Alex's rebel and the deceased's evil sister, Soledad. Andres and Diana are going to face many events such as the threat of Denisse Junot and Roberto Meráz. Denisse dies at the hands of Olympus when he learns that he betrayed him, he gives Denisse's son to his daughter Soledad.
Segunda Oportunidad is a Mexican reality show produced by TV Azteca and Azteca América that reunites non-winning contestants from the first seven seasons of La Academia as well as La Academia USA and is hosted by Rafael Araneda, Betty Monroe and Miss Universe 2003 Amelia Vega. The 52 contestants, divided into teams of four members each, spend each week at an isolated location learning and developing their artistic skills, then compete against each other during a weekly concert for TV viewers and a live studio audience and face elimination. Producers stated the composition of each team on March 10, 2010. The 52 contestants will be living in Emilio "Indio" Fernandez's home. Only 2 contestants were not announced for the competition, but instead were left six hopeful contestants were placed on an online vote, where viewers needed to choose between Jolette, Azeneth, Anahí, Gerardo, Luis Armando, or Raúl Sandoval. On March 17, 2010, the voting was closed; Anahí and Gerardo were chosen. On April 25, 2010, Diana Galindo asked if she can take part in the program. She has been given the chance through an open vote by the public, where they will decide whether she joins the contest or not. On May 9, during concert 7, Diana became the 53rd contestant.
Infarto is a hidden camera show on Azteca 13 in Mexico and Azteca América in the United States. People appearing on the show have been subjected to pranks such as the victim believing that they will be sacrificed in a cult ritual or believing that they will be murdered by axe-wielding neighbors in the midst of a blackout. Because of the extreme and traumatizing nature of the show's content, the authenticity of the show is heavily debated. Sci-Fi Channel's original show, Scare Tactics is modeled after this concept.
Desafío de Estrellas is a Mexican musical show produced and distributed by TV Azteca, the second most important network in the country. The format of the Desafío is similar to American Idol with contestants eliminated every week and a grand finale with the top contestants competing to win the first place prize. TV Azteca has, until 2006, produced two versions of the program, one in 2003 and the other in 2006. The 2003 version consisted only of former contestants of La Academia, another TV Azteca-produced show which had already garnished two seasons and, in the process, taken away rating from Televisa, the prime network of the country. The 2006 version, on the other hand, consisted of both former contestants of La Academia, as well as other artists produced by TV Azteca in the middle and late 90s, later in 2009 a third season took place with former contestns of the six seasons of la academia.