May 26, 2006 — -- The telenovela is the backbone of Latino TV. The genre, characterized by drama and romance, has more than 2 billion viewers in 100 countries, and the United States is ...

Telenovelas have powered terrestrial web TV Record to the No. 2 slot in terms of primetime viewers, helping it overtake Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao (SBT) for the first time in approximately 20 ...

Telenovelas are evolving. No longer is the traditional rags-to riches story the only formula working for TV networks. The new trend seems to be the “narco novelas”— a new sub genre of soap ...

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 audience.

Telenovelas are a welcome addition to the TV landscape, but has Jane The Virgin run its course?Back to video When ABC adapted Ugly Betty for an American audience in 2006, the American telenovela ...

Even after she left the novela, Belinda continued with the successful concert series, drawing more than 50,000 fans to a concert in Mexico City's Estadio Azteca.

Telenovelas have become so popular, that our three top TV channels have been churning out dozens of them per season. They used to be telecast mostly at night, but now we have early-afternoon ...

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 ...

Delia Fiallo, a native of Cuba who was considered the mother of Latin America’s telenovelas and wrote dozens of the popular television soap operas, died Tuesday at her home in Coral Gables ...

Telenovelas -- literally television novels -- have some things in common with their American cousins, the daytime soap operas.