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YOu shouldn't be so quick to judge these things, and insult Salma like you did(it only seems appropriate that she should be involved with these disasters), Look at all the crap America has on Tv and people buy into it. Reality shows suck and yet they're on TV all the time!!! Everybody loves Raymond stayed on for 9 years! How the hell that happened I'll never know!I'm sure someone will watch it, I loev Salma and think she's very talented!

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Wow, you couldn't be more racist if you were plucked off a farm from Massachusetts. (you see a joke can be made without putting down a whole race)



I understand the cheesy and corny but you HATE this because "...they're Spanish. Did I mention Spanish?"



Nice I guess you can't wait until Engadget Spanish is gone.



As for the positives of these soaps is that they only last one year and are less "ridiculous and convoluted" then the 50 year long current soaps.

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They're long," Yeah um they are an hour long and the series last 8 months max compared to days of our lives 45 years strong.



"the plots are always ridiculous and convoluted," Yeah ummm have you seen Passions? You know the one where a witch causes havoc on a whole town? Did you forget the time on Days when Marlena was possessed by the devil? Or the other million soaps where a 19 year old is perfectly capable of marrying a 77 year old with out anyone raising an eye brow?





"and they're Spanish. Did I mention Spanish?" Yeah that's why they are called telenovelas and air on Spanish language networks!! I disagree with Man on the fact that the above statement is not racist, it's just blatantly ignorant.



"It was announced a few days ago that Salma Hayek's production company (it only seems appropriate that she should be involved with these disasters)" yeah because Frida was a disaster of a film. And Dogma whoa don't even get me started on how terrible she was in that film[end sarcasm]



"the telenovela genre is red hot these days." Did I not get the memo? Fill me in here if I'm missing out on something"



Yeah, the regular delivery boy was sick that day and the newbie missed your mail box, sorry about that.



I live in NYC one of the top television markets in the country and the Spanish language network consistently beats other networks like UPN and WB during the hours when telenovelas are on, so yeah there is a growing market for them.



Just because something is not your cup of tea does not mean that it should be dismissed all together as trivial or silly. We can save that name calling for the stale and convoluted OC and their chrismukah disaster.

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Are telenovelas really that popular outside of the Latin American community? Granted, if you look at the Nielsen top 10 among Hispanic households, telenovelas are all the craze, but outside that community, I don’t think so. I’ve seen one or two of these and they really do suck. They make daytime soap operas look like Nobel Prize winning dramas.

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Well, im Mexican and I think telenovelas really really sucks! But "bety la fea" was not that bad, it was funny and well written...

Now, why offend other cultures? there are several ways to criticize the horrible telenovelas without being racist, shame on you, and tvsquad editors should take care of what kind of people write here.

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I'm not saying these shows don't suck, a lot of them do. Then again a lot of American shows suck too. Mediocrity is obviously blind when it comes to television.



but there are some good ones too. Jimmy you are probably right that they are not that popular outside of the Latino community, but it is a community that is growing so much to the point that ABC is trying to get a strong hold in that community of viewers because of that fact. Which is why they are probably doing that in the first place.

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Yeah, but Protagonistas de Novela (and the related Protagonistas de la Musica and Protagonistas de la Fama) was the best reality show ever, and that comes from someone that doesn't even speak Spanish.

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Actually, if something "is Spanish" is from a country called Spain.



If something "is in Spanish"... that's another thing, I think you meant that.

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Toomey obviously is an arrogant, ingnorant, idiot. Judging an entire genre based on ten minutes worth of watching is as bad as me saying he is probably whiter than the purest snow, and his neck redder than a lobster that's been boiling for hours, just based on his comments. As an army brat, from a Latin background, I've spent time in various locations, with various nationalities, and languages, and it is time to state a few facts. The telenovela, no matter how ridiculous it may seem, is not just a "Spanish" thing. They have been translated and broadcasted all over the world, as much, if not more than shows on English language channels. While the "Spanish" may have made it a popular genre, we are not the only ones that use this format. If the ratings show certain numbers in certain demographics, even if they are biased, there has to be some truth in the matter. I don't know how well the idea of a 'novela will translate in English, but if the American public, as a whole, can deal with, and even applaude, soap operas that have been on since the dawn of time, and run on like the "The song that never ends", then they should be able to handle a story with a BEGINNING, a MIDDLE, and an END. As for comments about how ridiculous or convoluted they may be, you have to remember something. Most telenovelas are not trying to make a point, that is the point. Just like any fictional novel or paperback, it is just supposed to be entertaining. Latin people, in general, know the difference. TV is supposed to be an escape from reality, at least for most people anyway, and as time goes by We Americans tend to develop ADHD when it comes to shows on TV, so this being the case, maybe an English language version of a telenovela is just the medication we need for that particular illness. Besides I can only take reruns of Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, and other great examples of American television for so long.

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