I like to watch telenovelas, which are serial dramas or soap operas in Latin America.
I have never seen those, are they like the American soap operas?
Yes, they are called Spanish soap operas. They are similar to the English ones.
Are they on during the day?
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
storytelling.
Spanish-language networks, chiefly Univision and Telemundo, have found success airing telenovelas for the growing U.S. Hispanic market. Both originally produced and imported Latin American dramas are popular features of the networks' daytime and primetime lineups, sometimes beating English-language networks in the ratings.
United States Online serials.
Some web series are soap operas, such as "" or "". In 2013, production company Prospect Park revived "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" for the web,