Kevin Williamson's North Carolina-set series is a soap opera revolving around the Buckleys, whose family business involves ...

From the evil twins of Days of Our Lives to the baby swaps of General Hospital, these are the soap opera cliches that we ...

Burton, 54, proposed to Lundstrom, 44, in January, more than one year after finalizing his divorce with ex-wife Sheree Gustin following a real-life soap opera split. "This day isn’t just about a ...

Network television would not exist if not for the financial success of soap operas, according to Elana Levine, author of Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History. During the 1970s ...

Ingo Rademacher wants to head back to court against ABC for his firing from General Hospital following Steve Burton’s recent return to the soap opera.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago The US Midwest invented one of history’s most ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Soap operas have been around for decades. And the stories live on from generation to generation. Natalie Moore from WBEZ just launched a new podcast on soap operas called "Stories ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Irna Phillips, seen in an undated photo, was a radio and television writer who developed what we know today as soap operas. Sun-Times files Share A Chicago ...

This term for some of our most melodramatic television shows has a surprisingly literal origin. Constant advertisements for soap, detergent, and other everyday products during these daytime dramas ...

On top of that, soap operas were some of the first programs to adopt LGBTQ+ storylines, like Ryan Phillippe’s openly gay teen character on One Life to Live, and All My Children, which featured ...