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 ch ...

. 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 adva ...

, 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 Cuatro is Spanish (and other Romance languages) for the number four. Cuatro may also refer to: * Cuatro (instrument), name for two distinct Latin American instruments, one from Puerto Rico (see Cuatro) and the other from Venezuela (see 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

*'' Friends'' *'' Cheers'' *'' Mira, Royal Detective'' *''

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Growing Pains ''Growing Pains'' is an American television sitcom created by Neal Marlens that aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992. The show ran for seven seasons, consisting of 166 episodes. The series followed the misadventures of the ...

'' *'' Boj'' *''

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

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'' *'' Relic Hunter'' *'' Tulli'' *''

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'' *'' Small Talk'' *''

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'' *'' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'' *'' Zigby'' *'' House'' *'' Spartacus: Blood and Sand'' *'' Pierre the Painter'' *'' Hawaii Five-0'' *'' The Defenders'' *'' Zoe Wants to Be'' *''

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

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'' *'' Grandpa's Gallery'' *'' Lost'' *'' Psych'' *''

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 ...

'' *'' White Collar'' *'' Sally Bollywood'' *'' Falling Skies'' *''

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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 C ...

'' *'' Saari'' *''El Comisario'' *''

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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 ...

'' *'' La que se avecina'' *''

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 ''La pecera de Eva'' () is a Spanish television series produced by Isla Producciones starring Alexandra Jiménez as Eva Padrón, a psychologist working in a high school. Its four seasons aired from January 2010 to December 2011 on Telecinco, LaS ...

'' *''Sota Caballo y Rey'' *''

Punta Escarlata ''Punta Escarlata'' is a Spanish mystery television series that originally aired on Telecinco from 20 July to 5 September 2011. Premise Two girls disappeared after attending an open-air dance in the fictional sea-side village of Punta Escarlat ...

'' *''Homicidios'' *''

The Powerpuff Girls ''The Powerpuff Girls'' is an American superhero animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera (later Cartoon Network Studios) for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Telev ...

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'' *'' Cheers'' *'' Tierra de Lobos'' *'' 7 Vidas'' *''World of Polli'' *''La hora de José Mota''

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Factoria de Ficcion Channels of Mediaset España Comunicación Television stations in Spain Television channels and stations established in 2008 Spanish-language television stations