"'Desperate Housewives' has many elements of a telenovela, which is the backbone of Latin American television," says Aranguibel.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Desperate' Translation] Reference

He looked like he could be an actor in a T.V. "telenovela" or in a movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermanos Mayar Circus] Reference

A.V. Club, in which she vents about the "telenovela" feel of.    From Wordnik.com.  [E! Online (US) - Top Stories]

Right now, del Castillo is hard at work on a different kind of telenovela, this one for the Web.    From Wordnik.com.  [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference

Brazil won the "telenovela" category with India, A Love Story - the country's first ever International Emmy success.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

The foundation is going to pay to produce a new Dominican Republic soap opera, or "telenovela," with saving money as a recurring theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

I am dying to know who is going to play Luis in the telenovela.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bard of Sex and Suffering] Reference

The media is selling the race for the White House like a telenovela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trey Ellis: New York Times Plays Race Card to Raise Circulation] Reference

I discovered the Brazilian telenovela when I lived in Portugal ten years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [As The World Turns] Reference

I'm looking at the hubby and thinking, Is my life an effin' telenovela or what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [HE HACKED UP THE RHUBARB!...?...!] Reference

One suggestion: can somebody hire Jacqueline Pearce to star in the first BBC telenovela?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

If Pink Five ever gets turned into a telenovela, I suspect it would turn out exactly like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink Five Returns…Sort Of | Fan Cinema Today] Reference

"I am trapped in the intrigue of a telenovela," she says, referring to Brazil's saucy soap operas.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Subprime Mess] Reference

There's only one telenovela — and it delves into the decidedly unsexy world of financial planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latino TV Gets Serious] Reference

The government put out its own telenovela on the state channel Venezolana de Television (VTV) in 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venezuela Bans "Family Guy" -- But "Baywatch" Is OK (VIDEO)] Reference

Have you been waiting impatiently for someone to combine the telenovela with a voter registration drive?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Telenovelas Get the Vote Out] Reference

But not even the most piquant telenovela could compete with the imbroglio that has gripped Brasilia lately.    From Wordnik.com.  [LULA'S TRIAL BYFIRE] Reference

Will it end after a pre-determined number of episodes, like the telenovela, or peter out, like a US series?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have I Mentioned I Adore “Ugly Betty”?] Reference

Casi Divas tells the story of four very different women vying in a contest to become the next big telenovela star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melissa Silverstein: Casi Divas: Interview with Director Issa Lopez] Reference

They depend on the writing, and Mr. Garcia's script for this film beats with the ardent heart of a telenovela. soon.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Iron Man 2': Rust Never Sleeps] Reference

He got the Internet bug while watching a Brazilian telenovela, where a business mogul romances a gypsy queen on the Web.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Regional Race Into Cyberspace] Reference

Manila's high society continues to marry here today; it's even the film location of weddings in popular telenovela series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manila] Reference

An agent friend of mine called me up and told me about a telenovela that was taking Columbia by storm called YO SOY BETTY, LA FEA.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 Paley Festival Recap: UGLY BETTY | the TV addict] Reference

Y así sigue la telenovela: el patrón ama secretamente a la empleada, pero la desprecia en público y le paga un salario miserable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jose Manuel Simian: Social Security as a Mexican Soap Opera] Reference

Betty has always soared over the telenovela top, but somehow during the strike, the writers lost track of the show's heart and head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critic's Corner Thursday] Reference

Ugly Betty is based upon a hit Columbian telenovela, a form of soap opera where the story is finite but everything else is turned up to 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference