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

Everyone's got to start somewhere. For a lot of actors looking to break into TV and film, that somewhere is soaps. Yes, the viewership of soap operas has been on a steady decline for the past 20 ...

Real Daytime Drama: On the Set of All My Children’s Last Day in New YorkWith the soap-opera biz mortally wounded, the L.A.-bound cast is lucky to still have a show. Their NYC crew, not so much.

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This year's list of Daytime Emmy nominees included a couple of surprises. The awards air June 7 on CBS. Is the current writers' strike affecting 'The Bold and the Beautiful'? Here's what to know ...

With the new president being inaugurated on Monday, find out which of your favorite soaps will actually be airing. Get the details.

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 ...

Soap opera was once the mainstay of television entertainment, and their characters part of everyday conversation. Now there are only four such programmes on air in the US. What happened?

General Hospital’s Leslie Charleson, who was with the series for almost five decades, has died, executive producer Frank Valentini confirmed. Kelly Monaco said goodbye to General Hospital after ...