This year is shaping up to be a fascinating year for Latin American television. From romantic comedies and crime thrillers to magical realism sagas and sci-fi adventures, LATAM’s 2025 shows not only promise to be authentically entertaining, but also challenge clichés and stereotypes about our identity, values, and culture.

So, without further ado, here’s a delicious selection of LATAM premieres and renewed series that we can’t wait to watch. While most of these TV releases have no official premiere date yet, they’ve all been confirmed to arrive sometime in 2025. One thing is for sure: there is something for everyone.

Betty, la Fea: La Historia Continúa

Long live the charming and drama-filled Beatriz Pinzón Solano! Just a week after its premiere, the sequel to Betty, la Fea (aka Ugly Betty) broke records on Prime Video Latin America and landed a second season. Produced by RCN Studios and directed by Mauricio Cruz Fortunato, Betty, la Fea: La Historia Continua returns us to Ecomoda and the lives of Beatriz Pinzón Solano and Armando Mendoza twenty years after the original story. Over the course of the first 10 episodes, the romantic comedy reintroduces most of the original cast as they navigate a host of professional and personal challenges. As usual, Amazon Studios and RCN Studios are keeping the details of the next installment under wraps. What we do know for sure is that the new episodes will continue to examine the nuances of its colorful and endearing cast.

Broadcast in more than 170 countries, dubbed into 25 languages, and listed in the Guinness World Records as the most successful telenovela in television history, the original version of Betty, la Fea became a cultural phenomenon, and to this day continues to inspire people to embrace its ‘uniqueness.’

El Eternauta

Netflix brings back Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López’s powerful graphic novel El Eternauta (The Eternaut) and reimagines it in miniseries format.

This sci-fi drama, about an alien invasion of Buenos Aires, centers on Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín), an unlikely survivor, who becomes the leader of the human resistance against an increasingly vicious, otherworldly threat. Produced in Argentina in collaboration with K&S Films, the six-part adaptation is created and directed by Bruno Stagnaro, the man behind Un Gallo para Esculapio and Okupas, along with Martín Mórtola Oesterheld, Oesterheld’s grandson.

Since its first publication in 1957, El Eternauta has been described as a tale of alienation, terror, survival, popular resistance, and humanity. Perhaps the new generations do not know the real dimension of Oesterheld’s work, but El Eternauta is one of the most important comics in Latin America and the world, making it a pillar of science fiction.

Envidiosa

Guess who’s coming back? Vicky, everyone’s favorite Envious, for her second season this summer. Written by Carolina Aguirre, responsible for hits such as Cita a Ciegas and Guapas, the Argentinian comedy-drama entered the Top 5 most-watched non-English speaking series, causing a furor in countries as diverse as Chile, Uruguay, Romania, Hungary, and Israel.

In it, Vicky (Griselda Siciliani) is about to turn 40, and as the title of this story states, she is envious of everything and everyone, especially since she separated from her long-time boyfriend. Details of the second season have yet to be revealed, but we can expect Netflix’s Envidiosa (Envious) to continue to explore the complexities of contemporary adult life, intra-family conflict, the search for personal identity, and the importance of friendship. The new season is scheduled to consist of 12 pleasingly spiky episodes.

Las Muertas

Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s masterpiece Las Muertas, about the life, rise and fall of the pimp sisters Serafina and Arcángela Baladro, will be transferred to the small screen for the first time. Published in 1977, the novel is inspired by the real-life case of sisters María del Jesús and Delfina González Valenzuela, who ran an extensive network of women trafficking in the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Jalisco for more than 20 years. They’re often called the serial killers with the largest number of victims in Mexican history. Director Luis Estrada, known for such films as La Ley de Herodes y La Dictadura Perfecta, tells a story of scams, abuse, clandestine burials, and corruption, and promises to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. The cast includes Arcelia Ramírez, Paulina Gaitán, Alfonso Herrera, and Joaquín Cosío.

Netflix’s six-episode tragicomedy is part of the #QueMéxicoSeVea initiative and joins the platform’s catalog of adaptations of Latin American classics, which includes ambitious projects like Cien Años de Soledad and Pedro Páramo.

Cazadores de Gringos

Although some of the plot of Cazadores de Gringos (The Gringo Hunters) has not yet been revealed, we have enough to consider it one of the most compelling Mexican shows of the year. Loosely inspired by an article by Kevin Sieff for The Washington Post, the Netflix series follows an elite squad of Mexican police who capture fugitives, many of them Americans, who cross the border to evade justice. With an exhilarating premise and a talented cast, led by Mayra Hermosillo, Harold Torres, Manuel Masalva, and Andrew Leland Rogers, this crime thriller promises to seduce and entice.

La Casa de los Espíritus

With over 65 million copies sold, La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits), Isabel Allende’s endearing first novel and one of her most revered works, is getting the Prime Video treatment. Recall that in July 2024, the streaming platform announced that it had acquired the rights to this sweeping family saga to develop an eight-episode series. Framed in magical realism and set in a politically and socially upset Chile, La Casa de los Espíritus narrates the life of four generations of the Trueba del Valle family, with its goodness and its miseries.

Adapted by Francisca Alegría, Fernanda Urrejola, and Andrés Wood and produced by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraí, La Casa de los Espíritus will be part of Prime Video’s catalog of Latin titles, which includes must-sees such Cada Minuto Cuenta, La Cabeza de Joaquín Murrieta, and El Presidente.