Uncommon
Telenovela
Latin American television genre
Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word is a portmanteau of tele (for "television") and novela (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include Musalsala (Arab world), dizi (Turkey), serial (India), teleserye (Philippines), lakorn (Thailand), teleromanzo (Italy), téléroman (Canada, specifically Quebec), K-drama (South Korea), J-drama (Japan), C-drama (China), sinetron (Indonesia), and zat lan twe (Myanmar). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas tend to have intertwined storylines told during indefinite, continuing runs. This makes them shorter than most other television series, but still...
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