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- A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.
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A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.
- Ryan’s Hope (13 seasons, 1975–1989) This ABC soap chronicled the ups and downs of a large Irish-American family in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and it happened to feature a pre-CSI Marg Helgenberger and a pre-Mr.
- The Doctors (19 seasons, 1963–1982) This NBC soap — set in Hope Memorial Hospital in the fictional town of Madison — originally premiered as an anthology with new plots either every episode or every week, before going serial a year later.
- The Secret Storm (20 seasons, 1954–1974) The life of the Ames family — widower Peter and his three daughters — provided the drama in this CBS soap. In 1968, Oscar-winning actress Joan Crawford reportedly filled in for ailing daughter Christina Crawford, even though Joan was in her 60s at the time and Christina’s character was in her 20s.
- Love of Life (28 seasons, 1951–1980) The Secret Storm creator Roy Winsor also created this CBS soap two and a half years prior. The current IMDb summary says the show focuses on two siblings: long-suffering Vanessa Dale “and her bitchy sister Meg.”
Mar 6, 2024 · If daytime soap operas are a dying art form, no one told CBS. The network behind The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the NAACP...
Mar 25, 2020 · Only four soaps remain on the air: Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. Here, the rest of the best.
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The following is a list of television Nielsen ratings and rankings for American daytime soap operas from 1950 to the present, as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. The numbers provided represent the percentage of TV households in the United States watching that particular show in a year.
Mar 8, 2024 · CBS and the NAACP are teaming up to develop an all-new soap opera — the first new daytime drama with a predominantly Black cast to air on TV in decades.
Feb 25, 2020 · Soap operas were the binge-able Netflix shows of their day, and the long-running TV and radio melodramas – packed with sentimentality and domestic drama, and always based around the daily lives of the same group of characters – are still keeping masses of people hooked.
