The television series is one of the formats success of this medium. Always contains some fixed elements, as the volume of characters who complete the distribution and use of signs that characterize the series and each character, so to create a separate identity recognizable to the public that follows the program. At the strategic level, every television channel generates an identity with the type of series star has in its programming.

Further use is made of permanent and non-decorated very varied, making it possible not to invest large budgets in the production of the series. Besides conducting a study offers total control over effects, camera placement and lighting.

All series are composed of different styles, combining comedy with drama, for example, but it is possible to distinguish by type. The comedies are produced from 40 years and its central theme is to produce entertainment and laughter in the viewer.

There are also soap operas, Latin American origin and melodramatic style and come from the 50's. In the following decade, are implanted the drama series that exposed long-term daily realities. So-called dramedias appear in the nineties and its theme is humorous-and its dramatic episodes are also long term.