This term for some of our most melodramatic television shows has a surprisingly literal origin. Constant advertisements for soap, detergent, and other everyday products during these daytime dramas ...

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 ...

Everything isn’t happiness, is it? No.” Soap operas created complex and groundbreaking women-centered storylines. In 1964, Another World had an abortion storyline. In 1971, All My Children’s ...

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 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 ...

Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell, their parents, both worked in the entertainment business. Patrick O'Connell is an actor and Maggie Baird is a musician, actress, and screenwriter. Their ...

Gabi Hernandez and Will Horton’s little girl is growing up – big time. A new, and noticeably older, Arianna Horton is set to debut on Days of Our Lives this May for a multi-month story arc, a ...

Maggie McGrath is an anchor for ForbesTV and also the editor of ForbesWomen, the Forbes vertical dedicated to covering all angles of female entrepreneurship, and the author of the ForbesWomen ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard will always put family first. In fact, the couple and their two daughters Ramona, 18, and Gloria, 12 recently proved that to be true. The group supported ...

The longtime couple share daughters Ramona, 18, and Gloria, 12 Bruce Glikas/WireImage Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard made Jake Gyllenhaal's new Broadway opening a true family affair.

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 ...