The telenovela, those melodramatic serials that are staples of Spanish-language television, are soon to become English-language network TV experiments. This summer, the telenovela is coming to CBS, ...

Night after night, in households from Puebla to Pico Rivera, tens of millions of loyal viewers tune in to their Spanish-language telenovelas, gasping at the seductions and betrayals on tear-jerkers ...

Morgan Fairchild and Bo Derek have been going at it for hours. On an otherwise quiet Saturday night, there seems to be no end to the yelling, face slapping, hair pulling, tussling, and hurling of ...

NBC Universal Television Group said Monday that it had signed a two-year deal with Galan Entertainment to produce English versions of Spanish-language shows known as telenovelas. Spanish broadcaster ...

Foes Univision and Telemundo are stealing TV’s most desired demographic with very different strategies. By Marisa Guthrie The Univision series is set in the ad world. Guns, drugs, fast cars. Not ...

Telenovelas, the Latin American staple, are now increasingly produced in Miami. April 8 2013— -- After years of watching telenovelas, and some James Bond flicks, I'd never put the two in the same ...

If you’ve never watched one of the popular Spanish-language telenovelas and you assume they’re a Latino version of U.S. soaps, brace yourself for “La Reina Del Sur.” This telenovela, watched by 16.6 ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Bob Cook, president of Twentieth Television, believes the time is right to see whether the popular Latin American telenovela format can be adapted for an American, English-speaking ...

I regularly hear from colleagues that telenovelas—sometimes called comedias—aren’t realistic, that they’re cheap melodramas showcasing Hispanic life from an embarrassing angle. But embarrassing to ...