Imagine all the deceit, blackmail, murders and sex of the first two seasons of "Desperate Housewives" crammed into 13 steamy weeks. That's the image three big TV companies are conjuring as they look ...

MIAMI — Flash back to 1999, when Miami was heady with its prospects as the self-appointed capital of Latin American entertainment. Then came the collapse of the Internet bubble and the full-body check ...

At Telemundo’s headquarters in Doral Wednesday night, a behind-the-scenes debate mirrored the one folks watched on TV. Over two hours, eight interpreters, wearing headsets and facing a monitor, were ...

On Spanish-language streaming platforms, call soapy drama what you like. Just don’t use the term “telenovela.” That’s because the venerable genre — traditionally associated with inexpensive hour-long ...

A telenovela or novela is a Spanish language soap opera. Telenovelas seem to be the opiate of the masses in Latin America. The first telenovelas were produced in Brazil, Cuba and Mexico in the 1950s.

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 ...