Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural media and television studies the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the Englishspeaking world almost nothing has been published on the huge and dynamic Spanishspeaking sector. This book discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain in both Spanish and Catalan Mexico Venezuela and to a lesser extent the US employing both empirical research on production and distribution and textual analysis of content. The three genres examined are horror biographical series and sportsthemed dramas the three examples of format remakes are of a period mystery Spain Mexico a romantic comedy Venezuela US and a historical epic Catalonia Spain.Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center City University of New York. He was previously Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of twenty books and one hundred academic articles.