RIO DE JANEIRO — 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 ...

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 expected ...

LOS ANGELES – Gina Rodriguez and America Ferrera have more in common than being the only Latinas to have won Golden Globes for best actress: Both of their series were originally Latin American ...

Remember the days when telenovelas were only watched by parents and abuelita? And when the ending was always the same — prince charming together at last with the poor but overly pretty girl?

While most kids in the mid-1990s were watching "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" or "Seinfeld" during the prime-time block, my evenings were packed with back to back episodes of the latest telenovelas. I ...

WE tv is developing new unscripted series The Real Women Of Telenovelas which will focus on the lives of up-and-coming actresses and actors in the uber-competitive world of telenovelas. Set in Miami ...

Late last month, TeleFutura (Univisión's younger sister network) launched the Mexican youth-oriented drama Cómplices al Rescate (Friends to the Rescue), an original Televisa production airing ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Gina Rodriguez and America Ferrera have more in common than being the only Latina women to have won Golden Globes for best actress: Both of their series' were originally Latin ...

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 ...

While Ugly Betty acquainted viewers with the telenovela’s outrageous, irresistibly sugary combination of melodrama and sincerity, Jane the Virgin took the telenovela into the twenty-first century, ...

Fiallo's telenovelas including 'Lucecita,' 'Peregrina,' 'María de nadie,' 'Pobre diabla' and 'Esmeralda' were translated into languages such as Japanese and Czech, reaching millions of people in more ...