Why Are Children's Soap Operas No Longer Made?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

For several decades, children's soap operas had a prominent place on the programming grid of the main television network of Televisa in Mexico with successful titles that went around the world as Luz Clarita, Long live the children!, María Belén and Carita de Ángel, to name just a few; However, in 2005, after the broadcast of Pablo and Andrea with Danna Paola as the protagonist, these stories ceased to have a place overnight on television. But why did they disappear?

“I believe that everything has a time. I think it happens like everything, it suddenly has wear. There is a formula that perhaps at the time reached a certain capacity or a certain situation where the children grew up. I believe that this factor must also be taken into account. New generations are coming, technology influences”, explained last Saturday in the television program El show de las telenovelas (Tlnovelas) Eduardo Meza, who was associate producer of successful children's soap operas such as El Diario de Daniela and Aventuras en el tiempo.

The space that the television critic Álvaro Cueva presents weekly and that this Saturday dedicated his broadcast to remembering some of Televisa's most successful children's soap operas also addressed the question of whether it would be a good idea for Televisa to resume children's stories today.

Rosy Ocampo, who was the director of Televisa Niños, seems to have it clear.

"It is a genre that in particular we would have to bring back to television, it is a moment where I think we should rethink the fact of making novels directed at children and young people," said the renowned Mexican producer of successful soap operas such as La fea. more beautiful, For her I am Eva and The force of destiny.

Danna Paola and Alejandro Speitzer in Amy, the girl with the blue backpack.

If we were to go back to children's stories, it would be necessary, however, to adapt these plots to the reality that children are currently experiencing and which is undoubtedly very different from that of yesteryear. This was stated during the program by María Alba, production coordinator for Televisa.

I would have thought that keeping in mind what children are currently exposed to visually … Technology has come a long way, children are already exposed to very diverse content in terms of special effects, visual effects … I think they do can do, it would definitely be a challenge to capture the attention of these children right now who are exposed to content on the Internet, to different platforms, but that it can be made clear that it can be done,”he said.