Blog: It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad TV world: 2018 and the globalization of television

It’s true that American Spanish-language networks Telemundo (a branch of NBCUniversal) and Univision, which broadcasts on what Angelenos with long memories will know as Channel 34, have been around for awhile, as have dedicated cable and satellite stations like the Francophone TV5MONDE, TV Japan and the Cantonese TVB. But as a rule, foreign language series, though sometimes remade for American television, never made the crossing; indeed, they have yet to crack broadcast prime time, and they may never. But elsewhere, we are taking them straight now, with gusto.