Expect your regularly scheduled soap opera programming to be interrupted, as the networks will be carrying live coverage of the event itself, as well as its lead-in and post-inauguration commentary.

In February, the first new soap opera on broadcast TV in a quarter-century (and the first Black soap opera in 35 years) will launch on CBS. Set in a gated community in a Maryland suburb ...

Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to revive the genre, and will be ...