Factoría de Ficción is a Spanish

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...

television network owned by

Mediaset España Mediaset España (), full name Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A., is a Spanish media company, controlled by the Italian company MFE - MediaForEurope. Its divisions include the generalist free-to-air TV channels Telecinco and Cuatro, thematic c ...

. It was launched on 18 February 2008 as ''FDF Telecinco'', replacing

Telecinco Estrellas Telecinco Estrellas was a Spanish television channel operated by Gestevisión Telecinco. It is available 24 hours a day on digital terrestrial ( TDT in Spain), satellite and cable. The channel specialises in drama and comedy programmes from arou ...

. On 25 July 2009 it changed its logo and name only to "Factoría de Ficción" (Spanish for ''factory of fiction''). It is a 24-hour channel and airs both syndicated and original television series and films. It is available on free-to-air

digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advanc ...

, and cable television.La industria audiovisual en España – Acadenmia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión, Corporación Multimedia – 2010 Page 190 "Sin embargo, el operador siempre ha contado con una señal dedicada a la redifusión de sus series de producción propia -Telecinco Estrellas en origen y Factoría de Ficción en la actualidad-, uno de sus contenidos tradicionalmente más ..."

Programming

Factoría de Ficcion airs syndicated television series, both international and local, most of them reruns of series previously aired on sister channels Cuatro and

Telecinco Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially laun ...

Foreign series

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'' *'' Perfect Strangers'' *''Claude'' *''

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Full House ''Full House'' is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC. The show is about widowed father Danny Tanner who enlists his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and childhood best friend Joey Gladstone to help raise his thr ...

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Small Talk Small talk is an informal type of discourse that does not cover any functional topics of conversation or any transactions that need to be addressed. In essence, it is polite and standard conversation about unimportant things. The phenomenon o ...

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Ghost Whisperer ''Ghost Whisperer'' is an American supernatural television series, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005, to May 21, 2010. The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt), who has the ability to see and communicate wit ...

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'' *'' Franny's Feet'' *'' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' *'' CSI: Miami'' *'' CSI: NY'' *'' Lightning Point'' *'' NCIS: Los Angeles'' *''

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Supah Ninjas ''Supah Ninjas'' is an American action superhero teen sitcom, created by Leo Chu and Eric Garcia. The series aired on Nickelodeon from January 17, 2011, to April 27, 2013. It ran for 2 seasons. The first season was filmed in Los Angeles and th ...

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Criminal Minds ''Criminal Minds'' is an American police procedural crime drama television series created and produced by Jeff Davis. The series premiered on CBS on September 22, 2005, and originally concluded on February 19, 2020; it was revived in 2022. It ...

'' *'' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'' *'' Zigby'' *''

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'' *'' Spartacus: Blood and Sand'' *'' Pierre the Painter'' *'' Hawaii Five-0'' *'' The Defenders'' *'' Zoe Wants to Be'' *''

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The Closer ''The Closer'' is an American television police procedural starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief. A CIA-trained interrogator originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Brenda has a reputation as a cl ...

'' *'' Mona & Sketch'' *''

Royal Pains ''Royal Pains'' (stylized ℞oyalPains) is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on the USA Network from 2009 to 2016. The series was based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies. The c ...

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Psych ''Psych'' is an American Detective fiction, detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks for USA Network. The series stars James Roday Rodriguez, James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara P ...

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Yo Gabba Gabba! ''Yo Gabba Gabba!'' is a children's musical television series created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz. The series is about five costumed toys come-to-life and their friend DJ Lance Rock (Lance Robertson). It is co-produced by Magic Stor ...

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Falling Skies ''Falling Skies'' is an American science fiction television series set in a post-apocalyptic era, created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The series stars Noah Wyle as Tom Mason, a former history professor who becomes ...

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The Kill Point ''The Kill Point'' is an American television series that follows a group of U.S. Marines recently returned from serving in Iraq as they come together to pull off a major bank heist of a Three Rivers Bank branch in Pittsburgh. The series, produced ...

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Local series

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Aída ''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a spin off of the sitcom ''7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia. The show stars Car ...

'' *'' Saari'' *''El Comisario'' *'' Sponk!'' *''

Hospital Central ''Hospital Central'' ("Central Hospital"; previously ''Línea Roja'') is a Spanish television series that follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid. New episodes are shown by Telecinco ...

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Postman Pat ''Postman Pat'' is a British stop-motion animated television series first produced by Woodland Animations. The series follows the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman who works for Royal Mail postal service in the fictional village of Greendal ...

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La que se avecina ''La que se avecina'', is a Spanish television situation comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The show is set in Mirador de Montepinar, a condominium located in the suburbs of Madrid. The show is an indirect ...

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Los Serrano ''Los Serrano'' is a Spanish television drama comedy which premiered on 22 April 2003 and aired on Telecinco. It tells the story of the Serrano family, who lives in Round Santa Justa No 133, located in the fictional neighborhood of Santa Justa, in ...

'' *'' Doug'' *'' La pecera de Eva'' *''Sota Caballo y Rey'' *'' Punta Escarlata'' *''Homicidios'' *''

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7 Vidas ''7 Vidas'' is a Spanish sitcom which aired on Telecinco from 1999 to 2006. Its title translates as "7 lives" and the symbol of the sitcom is a cat, in reference to the belief that cats have 7 lives (in contrast to English-speaking countries, whe ...

'' *''World of Polli'' *''La hora de José Mota''

References

External links

Official site
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