We love telenovelas because they have a beginning and an end. They are short stories that make us dream and transport us into worlds where everything is over the top and every situation becomes a ...

Steve Chiotakis: Two Spanish-language media titans meet today in federal court. Televisa and Univision are battling over who gets to distribute Televisa’s popular telenovelas online. From The Americas ...

Growing up in a Latinx household, telenovelas were always playing in the background. Melodramas are part of our DNA, and we thrive watching the passionate scenes on TV with our favorite celebrities.

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, ...

Romance. Drama. That’s what drives telenovelas, Latin American soap operas, one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, with hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. Telenovelas — ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Univision, the nation's No. 1 Spanish-language broadcaster, is bringing its popular telenovelas and other prime-time TV programming to ...

The first telenovela my parents watched was Telemundo’s “Guadalupe.” Its outlandish plot will be recognizable to anyone familiar with the soap opera genre. Guadalupe, the title character, is the ...

In Episode 1 of “Edge of Desire,” Globo’s big new telenovela, launch at Natpe, Eugenio is on the cusp of leaving his family food sales company to establish his own law practice. Events, maybe fate, ...

For years, Latin American TV dramas have centered on the same old stories of passion, betrayal and revenge. Rich old men woo humble young beauties, and prodigal sons return home to childhood ...

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