Characterized by melodrama and mawkishness, soap operas tend to appeal to wider audiences, influencing network executives to ...

In the early years of my career as a freelance writer ... My older sister also caught the soap opera bug for quite some time, but her love for daytime TV didn’t go the distance like ours.

In the early 2000s, SOAPnet made it easy for soap fans with day jobs to follow faves like ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to ...

The debut for the first time in decades of a soap opera set in Maryland could bring life to the struggling genre, writes.

Is the current writers' strike affecting 'The Bold and the Beautiful'? Here's what to know about the soap opera and how many new episodes are ready to air. Here is why Diamont had Clifton reshoot ...

They are dramas based in one neighbourhood that try to depict ordinary life in the UK - we call these dramas ‘soap operas’ or ‘soaps’. In the early days of TV, there were often dramas on ...

Scroll back more than 30 years, however, and you would have spotted Jude Law in another role in the short-lived ITV soap opera Families. Image caption, Jude Law found early success in the ITV soap ...

Despite these early challenges, she pursued her education ... It also marked the beginning of Phillips’ mentorship of future soap opera legends like Agnes Nixon and William J.

Amplify Pictures has begun production on Soaps, a two-part documentary directed by Matt Wolf (Pee-wee as Himself, Spaceship Earth) exploring the unseen world of soap operas. Soaps offers ...