The soap opera genre spans networks, decades, and genres, but there are some tropes that can be found just about anywhere.

Discover the real-life couples who found love on the set of soap operas, from Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on 'All My ...

In the tense ratings battle between the daytime soap operas, CBS’ The Young and the ... community in the Washington metropolitan area. The show stars Tamara Tunie, Clifton Davis, Daphnée ...

The show, created by Black soap opera veteran Michele Val Jean, is the dream of producer and lifelong soap fan Sheila Ducksworth. "I've been a lover of soap operas since I was 10 years old ...

That’s why I don’t think there would be the other shows we love without soap operas. They give us the basics of storytelling that all shows use. I’ve given a lot of thought over the years as ...

Jackson, who has won five Daytime Emmys for his role as Lucky Spencer on the iconic soap opera, leaves the show this week ...

Soap operas change faces all the time in the name of recasting. Actors leave for personal reasons or get written out for ...

I think that this show is being provided for that constituency.” Image Jonelle Allen, left, and Vivica A. Fox in “Generations,” the soap opera that premiered in 1989 and was the first to ...

Production costs for a soap opera, Levine said, were “still never at the level of what it cost to make a primetime show.” The decline of soaps can’t be attributed to a singular event.

A Chicago woman created soap operas. And a Chicago woman is keeping ... the bosses asked her if she would write a daily narrative, scripted show for women. In 1930, “Painted Dreams” debuted ...