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Exclusive: It’s been a strong few weeks for Telemundo.

The Spanish-language network has been dominating primetime, placing No. 1 both in total viewers and in the 18-49 demographic, beating out rival Univision for the ratings crown.

That’s thanks largely in part by two high-performing series, reality show La Casa de Los Famosos and scripted drama El Señor de Los Cielos.

La Casa de Los Famosos is actually drawing its best audience ever, averaging 1.3M live+same-day viewers across Season 4, according to Nielsen. That marks a 7% increase over Season 3 — the largest season-over-season audience growth the series has ever seen.

So far, the series has seen an increase in total viewers each season, growing 5% from Season 1 to 2 and 1% from Season 2 to 3.

La Casa de Los Famosos is also Telemundo’s top reality series on Peacock, according to NBCUniversal.

Meanwhile, El Señor de Los Cielos is averaging 1.1M viewers per episode. It...

El Señor de los Cielos is coming back soon!

The Telemundo television series (English title: Lord of the Skies) created by Luis Zelkowicz first premiered on the network in 2013, and continues to be a hit.

The network just announced that Season 9 of the series will premiere on Tuesday, February 13 at 10pm/9c.

The show centers around the most powerful drug dealer of his time, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juarez Cartel. He was nicknamed the lord of the skies for his fleet of planes he used to transport drugs.

Click through to find out who is returning and joining the cast of El Señor de los Cielos for Season 9…...

Romance, suspense and drama dominate the 2023 slate of Telemundo Global Studios, which presented its 2023 lineup at Content Americas under the banner The Telemundo Edge. Speaking to Variety before hosting Telemundo’s presentation, Karen Barroeta, executive VP of production and development, noted: “We have evolved the genre so much that we now call them contemporary dramas, not telenovelas.” The long-form format runs an average of 80 episodes, stripped Monday to Friday, instead of the 120+ count of the traditional telenovelas.

Telemundo’s programming is also buoyed by its action-packed Super Series, the International Emmy-winning franchise “El Señor de los Cielos” (“Lord of the Skies”), which just launched Season 8 on Jan. 17 to stellar ratings. Inspired by real events, the show stars Rafael Amaya as the titular drug lord who undergoes plastic surgery in order to evade capture. “The show is always rooted in reality,” said Barroeta who added that writer/creator Luis Zelkowicz has some 800 hours under his belt.

When we think of telenovelas, we're quick to get nostalgic about the ones we grew up watching with our moms and abuelas. We tend to associate them with being an older-generation thing, with their overdramatic and also very predictable love narratives. But that doesn't mean there aren't young Latinx folks out there who don't tune in. It makes sense, considering there are audiences who do consume content and entertainment both in English and Spanish. In fact, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises established the term "200ers" to describe them, referring to a demographic of Latinxs who identify 100 percent as American and 100 percent as Latinx and "share the values of both cultures, are bilingual, and flawlessly jump between cultures." This would explain why Emmy Award-winning telenovela "El Señor de los Cielos," with its eighth season returning to Telemundo on Tuesday, Jan. 17, has become a cross-generational hit over the years, appealing to a wider Latinx audience than ever thought possible.

On Thursday, Telemundo released its first behind-the-scenes look at “Malverde: El Santo Patrón” (“Malverde: The Patron Saint”), the ambitious upcoming series starring Latin Grammy Award winner Pedro Fernández and Mexican actor Carolina Miranda.

“Malverde: El Santo Patrón” follows a boy, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1870, who will ultimately become a legendary figure and a religious icon. Malverde becomes a protector of the people, as well as the innocent, the poor and the dispossessed.

The above clip reveals what the 215,000 square-foot backlot built atop Mexican national park Cumbres del Ajusco looked like before and after, and what it took to recreate the world of the iconic Mexican character, set in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The town of San Blas de Baca consists of 11 buildings with 77 sets, designed by Telemundo’s Valeria Fińana and award-winning production designer Gloria Carrasco.

“To tell such an iconic story like ‘Malverde,’ we had to...