This month has brought a shower of new podcasts for your playlist. The NPR One team gathered a few returning favorites as ...

But television soap operas, largely created by women for women, were soon attracting tens of millions of viewers and driving network revenue. Midcentury housewives had more free time to tune in ...

Michael Tullberg/Getty Images Jack Wagner has done it all in his 40-year career in Hollywood — from Melrose Place and Dancing ...

and Another World (1964), soap operas made their way from the radio to daytime television. These shows offered women a chance to enter the television industry as performers, which—with notable ...

Russian veterans organization calls for ban on Turkish soap operas that depict 'ideal men' and contribute to the country’s demographic crisis.

Journalist Natalie Moore's new podcast drops its first episode Tuesday. It explores how the daytime drama got its start in ...

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 ...