From their earliest days, soap operas have primarily catered to female viewers, and few people know more about this phenomenon than Mara Levinsky, the Executive Editor at Soap Opera Digest (one of ...

Every day in daytime TV has a story to tell. Today in Soap Opera History takes a look back at the unforgettable weddings, shocking twists, dramatic exits, and iconic debuts that happened on this date ...

Following its 2025 streaming cancellation, the legendary soap opera takes its first steps into short-form vertical television ...

Overview of the upcoming BGSU conference “Soap Operas in Popular Culture.” The soap opera started in the 1930s on radio and remains a fixture today in various formats. How has the soap opera ...

When we look at the brilliant, award-winning careers of Hollywood’s biggest actors, it is easy to assume they stepped directly onto premium movie sets or prime-time television dramas. The pristine red ...

April 1st is known to many as April Fools' Day, but for television fans, it was the day the small screen got serious about drama. On this day in 1963, two of the most influential medical soap operas ...

Soap operas’ detractors usually cite the same critiques of the genre, calling out the over-the-top drama, the frequent recasting of characters, the workmanlike production design and cinematography, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I've always been interested in why soaps are looked down upon. It feels intrinsically linked to sexism," says Levinsky. "It's so ...