American audiences’ interest in foreign language content has been steadily growing in recent years. Between Q1 2022 and Q3 2024, the demand share for foreign language shows increased from 12.8% to 17% ...

Long-lost evil twin? An intergenerational love affair between family members who don’t know they’re related? A romance forged via ESP between two people in a coma? As long as the dramatic music was ...

A scene from Nuestro Barrio, a new Spanish-language soap opera airing on English-language TV stations in the United States. A sexy new Spanish-language mini-series recently hit the airwaves. Nuestro ...

THREE NIGHTS a week, aspiring actors at the International Actor Formation Center Luz Columba gather to run through scenes filled with adultery, prison escapes, romance and revenge — the kind of drama ...

After a successful first season, the creator of a unique Spanish-language soap opera that mixes educational themes for immigrants with the more traditional telenovela plots of love and betrayal hopes ...

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.

It’s 9 p.m. in Los Angeles, the start of the quietest hour of the day. Pale blue light flickers in half a million homes tuned to the same nightly soap opera, and loyal viewers are dying of suspense ...

If there’s one thing you don’t see a lot of on series television, it’s ugly people — especially ugly women. After wracking my brain, the only recent example I could come up with of a TV series that ...

MEXICO CITY — Is it the money or is it the power? That’s the cliffhanger concluding the latest chapter of breathless melodrama, which has been unfolding between Grupo Televisa’s Emilio Azcarraga and ...

A sexy new Spanish-language mini-series recently hit the airwaves. Nuestro Barrio (Spanish for "our neighborhood") has more than just love triangles and deceit: It's an educational effort meant to ...