a telenovela is a type of tv serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in latin america. are you a fan?
never heard of them, where do they air?
in latin america, but similar genres in the world include teleserye in the philippines, teleroman in canada, or simply called dramas in asia and the rest of the arab world. we also call them soap operas in america, or dramas. its all the same thing but they have different words and different variations in different places
oh that sounds interesting
yup and in spain they are called "culebrones" which translates to long snakes, because the plots of their dramas are extremely convoluted. what  a fitting name for them lol!
where can you find them in the US
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
Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a limited-run television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines "tele" (for "television") and "novela" (meaning "novel"). Similar genres around the world include teleserye (Philippines), téléroman (Canada, specifically Quebec), or simply dramas (Asia and the rest of the Arab World). 
Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to