Sociedades dramatizadas: la ficción televisiva de calidad en España y México

Over the last decade, Spain and Mexico have produced an extraordinary abundance of television drama and are considered as leaders in their respective continents. Only in 2014, Mexico produced more than one hundred thousand hours of television that were exported to over one hundred countries. Unlike the more fragile and vulnerable case of cinema, which depends on government subsidies and is dominated by Hollywood in local theatres, television in both countries is a very successful industry, connecting with domestic audiences and taking US production off the grid. This paper aims to explore the significant similarities between these two territories. To do so, it uses the study of the most relevant cases of dramatized fiction in each of the two countries.