The Best TV Shows on Telemundo

Every Telemundo Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of December 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of Telemundo’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. Pasión de Gavilanes and La mujer en el espejo represent the pinnacle of Telemundo’s programming, launching in 2003 and 2004. From 2003 through to 2025, Telemundo has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows.

  • La Jefa
    La Jefa (2025)8.5

    Gloria's perfect life shatters when hitmen kill her fiancé at their wedding. Abandoned by family, pursued by enemies, and stripped of assets, she must enter the money laundering world to protect her son.

  • Dinastía Casillas
    Dinastía Casillas (2025)8.4

  • La hija del Mariachi
    La hija del Mariachi (2006)8.0

    Emiliano, a wealthy Mexican businessman, is ripped off by his friends and partners. Hidden in Bogotá, he receives help from Rosario, a mariachi singer. She does not know Emiliano’s background and that he is wanted by the police of two countries and by a criminal organization. With a new name and personality, he adapts well to his new life as a mariachi band member and finds in Rosario the love of his life. But he is afraid his secret will tear them apart. He needs to clear his name and resolve his case to avoid that fate. Meanwhile, he often finds his love tested and vulnerable to several rivals, but Rosario always trusts that he has been honest with her.

  • El Señor de los Cielos
    El Señor de los Cielos (2013)7.9

    Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.

  • Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio
    Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio (2017)7.9

    This drama reveals the difficult rise to fame of the Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera, from her past of abuse to success as a band leader.

  • La Reina del Sur
    La Reina del Sur (2011)7.8

    After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...

  • Senora Acero
    Senora Acero (2014)7.8

    The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.

  • La Casa de los Famosos
    La Casa de los Famosos (2021)7.8

  • Corazon Valiente
    Corazon Valiente (2012)7.7

    Angela and Samantha were best friends when they were little, but a trap of fate separated them for many years. An unmissable story of loyalty, friendship, courage and love.

  • The Return
    The Return (2013)7.7

    La Patrona is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Mexican Argos Comunicación. The telenovela is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Dueña, written by José Ignacio Cabrujas. The name reflects a local term or slang in Mexico to address a person recognized as the main boss. However, the title is also a reflection of both the protagonist and the antagonist struggle to conquer power, authority and respect in a labor field traditionally deemed to be a man's job.

  • 100 días para enamorarnos
    100 días para enamorarnos (2020)7.7

    Two couples who struggle to be near each other decide to give another chance for each other, 100 days for them to fall back in love.

  • Pasión de Gavilanes
    Pasión de Gavilanes (2003)7.6

    The Reyes-Elizondo's idyllic lives are shattered by a murder charge against Eric and León.

  • Second chance
    Second chance (2005)7.6

    El cuerpo del Deseo also known as Second Chance is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and Film in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his beautiful widow. The first version of El cuerpo del Deseo was En Cuerpo Ajeno produced by RTI Colombia in 1992.This telenovela was aired in 25 countries around the world.

  • El Chema
    El Chema (2016)7.6

    Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the world's most infamous cartel leaders.

  • False Identity
    False Identity (2018)7.6

    Isabel and Diego, two complete strangers, must assume the identity of a married couple in order to flee the state of Sonora.

  • Enemigo íntimo
    Enemigo íntimo (2018)7.6

    The story of two siblings who witness the murder of their parents in the hands of one of the drug cartels in Mexico, after which Alejandro Ferrer's younger sister is kidnapped. 25 years later, Alejandro is now the captain of the Federal Police and seeks revenge against the narcos for destroying his family.

  • Without Breasts There Is No Paradise
    Without Breasts There Is No Paradise (2008)7.5

    The tragic story of Catalina Santana, whose ambition is so strong that she will risk her life due to her obsession with having bigger breasts to attract drug lords and have all the luxuries in the world.

  • Sin senos sí hay paraíso
    Sin senos sí hay paraíso (2016)7.5

    A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.

  • La Doña
    La Doña (2016)7.4

    A story of revenge and ambition, seduction and betrayal; all told from the perspective of an offended and abused woman named Altagracia. Altagracia represents the hundreds of thousands of Mexican women who have been victims of the violence by faceless men who are protected by impunity. But Altagracia, transformed into a strong-willed, ruthless man-eater known as La Doña, will seek out each and every one of these men to bring them to justice.

  • La mujer en el espejo
    La mujer en el espejo (2004)7.1

    La Mujer en el Espejo is the title of a Colombian telenovela that first aired in Colombia in 1997 and was later remade & aired again in Colombia in 2004 by Telemundo.