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Fiction series broadcasted by TV channels can be domestically-produced or foreign-made. The former may contribute to the definition of a TV channel's corporate identity. The latter, usually US-made, series tend to have widely recognized quality standards and offer a reasonable guarantee of high audience ratings in the countries to which they are exported. The definition of viewer preferences for home-produced or American-made fiction series is a key issue in this regard. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect that certain viewer factors may have on preferences for domestically-produced or American-made fiction series in Spain; in specific terms, the variables taken into consideration here are gender, age, educational level, nationality, preferences for TV genres and the perceived quality of television series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the fiction serial Amar en tiempos revueltos, broadacasted by TVE1. The research is organized taking in account two complementary perspectives. On one hand, it points to several important dimensions to understand not only historical fiction on television but also the representation of Spanish Civil War in film and television. On the other hand, it analyzes the most important lines of contents of this serial, and the originality of such kind of subject, placed, in this case, in soap opera genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]