The soap opera, or telenovela, holds cultural power like nothing else in Brazil. And no other timeslot holds the prestige of the 9 p.m. telenovela at Globo's free-to-air channel, the television ...

It was during the process of reconnecting with his Syrian roots that Rio de Janeiro-born <a target=_blank href=h ...

Ah, Swahili—the Beyoncé of African languages. Spoken by over 80 million people, it’s the lingua franca of East Africa, ...

A soap opera which depicts the recent upsurge of Brazil into a consumer society has trapped the country breaking audience records and even forcing President Dilma Rousseff to modify her agenda.

Expect your regularly scheduled soap opera programming to be interrupted, usually by the networks airing sports. Here is a handy guide to which soaps are airing original episodes, which soaps are ...

Sun pours through the lush foliage of a jungle, bleaching the pale limestone as a rotting man stands in the center of an otherwise empty arena, his yellow eyes leering from beneath a fringe of ...

It's a soap opera 365 days a year.'' The trailer cuts to a royal with The Star shaded in its midst. The words on-screen read, in all-caps, "America's Team." That is quite the message to leave ...

In a new interview with TV Insider, DAYS’s co-executive producer, Janet Spellman, dished about what the show has in store in 2025, which also happens to be the year the venerable soap celebrates ...

The 61-year-old director recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and explained that while he loves the hit Western series, he believes that “at the end of the day it’s just a soap opera.” ...

A soap opera-worthy love affair was unfolding inside an unassuming dental office in a quaint Maine town, according to an explosive lawsuit. Dr. Aaron Palmer allegedly carried on an affair with ...