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 ...

News Corp. launches MyNetworkTV (MNT) on Sept. 5, gambling on a concept never before tried on American television: offering low-cost, limited-run, hour-long nightly soaps based on Spanish-language ...

Morgan Fairchild and Bo Derek have been going at it for hours. On an otherwise quiet Saturday night, there seems to be no end to the yelling, face slapping, hair pulling, tussling, and hurling of ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY — If there is a secret to producing a hit telenovela, Televisa’s Salvador Mejia must know it. Eight of the Spanish-lingo broadcasting giant’s top 12 international sellers are his. His ...

MIAMI — 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 ...

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 ...

The Latinization of U.S. culture will step into the living room this fall with the debut of two telenovelas in English. Twentieth Television, a unit of News Corp., has already taped “Desire” in San ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Bob Cook, president of Twentieth Television, believes the time is right to see whether the popular Latin American telenovela format can be adapted for an American, English-speaking ...

Telenovelas have a reputation for serving up over-the-top fighting, romance, and heartache — oftentimes even more so than English-language soap operas, if you can believe it. But did you know that the ...

THE BUSINESS: 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 ...