Factoría de Ficción (; formerly Telecinco Estrellas and then FDF Telecinco) is a Spanish

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television channel owned by

Mediaset España Grupo Audiovisual Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.U. (formerly Gestevisión Telecinco, S.A. and Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.) is a Spanish media company, controlled by the Italian-based company MFE – MediaForEurope N.V., which i ...

. It is a 24-hour channel and airs both acquired and original television series and films. It is available on free-to-air

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, and cable television.

History

Gestevisión Telecinco launched the channel as Telecinco Estrellas on 30 November 2005, broadcasting drama and comedy programmes from around the world. The channel broadcast on

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(DTT), as well as on satellite and cable. On February 18, 2008, Gestevisión Telecinco relaunched the channel as FDF Telecinco, reinstating the FDF brand previously associated with Factoría de Ficción, a specialty television channel which Gestevisión jointly operated with Grupo Antena 3 and the production company Globomedia from 2000 until 2007. At the relaunch, the channel broadcast drama series of Gestevisión's own production or from its catalog of series acquired abroad. On 25 July 2009, the channel was renamed Factoría de Ficción, a name it has kept since then. In November 2015 Mediaset España relaunched

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as the company's second channel dedicated to television series, so FDF's programming began to focus on Spanish drama series and films, as well as some general entertainment programs, while most of the foreign series acquired by Mediaset España began to be broadcast on Energy.

Programming

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

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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 ...

. The channel also used to broadcast TV series aimed at children, but in 2010, such programmes were moved to Boing, a new channel jointly launched by Gestevisión Telecinco and Turner Broadcasting System España.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Factoria de Ficcion Telecinco Channels of Mediaset España Comunicación Television stations in Spain Television channels and stations established in 2005 Spanish-language television stations