Natalie Moore writes about soap operas, their Chicago origins and relevance through the years. Her upcoming WBEZ podcast ...

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 ...

April 9 (UPI) --NBC released a promo for the upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live featuring host Jon Hamm in a spoof of daytime soap operas. The promo takes the form of a spoof promo for a soap ...

The soap opera world was especially rocked by the deaths of beloved stars, including Days of Our Lives veteran Bill Hayes and General Hospital icon Leslie Charleson. As families, fans and ...

The long-lived soap opera "All My Children" began its over-40-year run in 1970. Photo illustration by Amanda Berlinski; source photo: Steve Fenn / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Images Long ...

“The Bold and the Beautiful” is doing something bold. The daytime drama will debut its first-ever all-female episode on Thursday, March 27. Heather Tom, who plays Katie Logan Spencer, wrote ...

Love triangles, amnesia, cliffhangers, blackmail – there’s no trope or plot device that soap operas haven’t seen – or invented. But who invented the soaps themselves? Turns out ...

Prior to that gig, Cosgrove’s soap roots stretch back to All My Children, where he played Scott Chandler from 1996-98. He returned to the role from 2010-11, by which time he’d also worked on ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam has made dramatic moves to go green, from the materials it uses in productions to the food it serves. Jos van Schaik overseeing the ...

and veteran star Finola Hughes (Anna). Soap Opera Digest checked in with Hughes to find out about her developing bond with her new on-screen family member and why Anna is so up in arms about Emma ...

Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett has taken aim at the NRL, saying the Daly Cherry-Evans saga has exposed a major flaw in the current game. The Manly and Queensland skipper lit a furnace earlier this ...

These were soap operas for conspiracy buffs. The leaks of internal emails, Slack chats, and other documents transformed mundane corporate processes and communications into sinister conspiracies ...