With a worldwide audience surpassing 2 billion, telenovela-mania is spreading like wildfire. By John Hecht, The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — On a soundstage in the heart of Mexico City, a melodrama ...

For 25 years, "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea" has changed Latino representation globally. Packed with meet-cutes, slaps, unexpected twists, and countless obstacles before a handsome man and the damsel in ...

If the story of the beleaguered broadcast television networks were turned into a telenovela, the plot might go something like this: a rich, handsome man loses everything he holds dear (ratings) after ...

Delia Fiallo was a legendary and prolific author of Latin American telenovelas, opening the storylines and themes of these beloved series. She died at home in Florida on Tuesday. Cuban American ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Delia Fiallo, the author and screenwriter whose peers and fans often called her the "mother of the telenovela," has died. She was 96 years old. Her daughter, Delia Betancourt, confirmed to NPR that ...

I'm just going to come right out and say it: Jane the Virgin is the perfect show. It has all of the drama and romance that you'd get from a soap opera or telenovela, but an ability to poke fun at some ...

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, ...

de Faría was recently featured on Coy Jandreu's podcast, talking about her character and her career. "He wanted this character to be really serious, poker face," said de Faría of James Gunn, the ...

A local venue welcomed an iconic telenovela star through its doors this week, and the internet is losing its mind. Mexican actress Angelique Boyer, known for her role in the TV series Teresa, met fans ...

A Mexican actor convicted of involuntary manslaughter was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for issuing a deadly punch during a road rage confrontation in Miami in 2019. Pablo Lyle, 36, a ...