JLo gives TV another shot

Undaunted by the glorious mess of South Beach, her last foray into television drama, Jennifer Lopez is coming back to the tube Tuesday night with Como Ama Una Mujer (How A Woman Loves), a five part miniseries that kicks off on Univision at 10 p.m. Lopez, the creator and executive producer, based the series on the lyrics of her Spanish-language album of the same name released earlier this year. Starring Chilean actress Leonor Varela (Voces Inocentes, Blade II, The Tailor of Panama -- that's her in the photo at left) and Mexican actor Raul Mendez (Los Justos, Un Mundo Maravilloso, The Legend of Zorro), it's got a typical telenovela rags-to-riches-but-where's-the-love? plot, and Lopez performs one of the album's songs at the end of each episode. The show is in Spanish, of course, but English captions are available on caption channel 3.