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, ...

Latin American soap operas are being reimagined for an American audience through a cross-border partnership between Globo and MFF & Co. Plus: Three classic telenovelas to watch this winter. The ...

In a projected landmark venture, L.A.-based international entertainment studio MFF & Co is partnering with Brazilian TV colossus Globo, the company behind Oscar winner “I’m Still Here,” to adapt for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps only slightly more addictive to their audiences than to the many actors who earn their livings in them, Latin American telenovelas are an international sensation. In the United States, ...

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 ...

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, ...