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 ...

Suddenly, everyone wants to be in the telenovela business. The first programs for the newly announced My Network TV, the mini-network of News Corp.’s nine former UPN affiliates, will be two prime-time ...

Like so many first-generation Latin Americans, Silvio Horta grew up in a Spanish-speaking home in Miami where each night his mother had the TV tuned to one thing: telenovelas. In the Spanish- language ...

Latin American soap operas are being reimagined for an American audience through a cross-border partnership between Globo and MFF & Co. Plus: Three classic telenovelas to watch this winter. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...