I hear a lot of people love Telenovela like they love Days of our Lives here
So a Telenovela is similar to a soap opera?
Yeah, it's Spanish. Do you know anything about it?
I'd never heard of them before.  Evidently it translates to "television novel".
Hmm, I've never actually watched it. Wonder if it's as good as a novel.
They have very long story lines.  In Spain they sometimes call them "culebrones", or "long snakes".
That's interesting, has it been around a long time?
45 minutes, and rarely more than an hour, except for final episodes. The telenovela combines drama with the 19th-century "feuilleton", and naturally evolved from the Latin American radionovela, according to Blanca de Lizaur.
The medium has been used frequently by authorities in various countries to transmit sociocultural messages by incorporating them into storylines. By the 1970s and 1980s, Mexico became a world pioneer in using telenovelas to shape behavior, particularly successful in introducing the idea of family planning. Mexico and Brazil later, in the
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