Fans of the soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light will likely be sad to hear the news that actor Mark Dobies has passed away. His cause of death has not been revealed yet. Dobies passed ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 Los Angeles based soap opera – a spin-off of The Young and the Restless – began in 1987. Following the wealthy Forrester family and their fashion house business, plus the neighbouring ...

The ceremony, which first began in 1999, celebrates all things soap opera – but was notably absent last year. Fans eagerly awaited news of their return, and now the vote has opened for you to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heather Tom (Katie) wrote, directed and starred in the B&B episode airing on Thursday, March 27. Soap Opera Digest: Tell me about the genesis of your triple involvement in this special episode.