Every day in daytime TV has a story to tell. Today in Soap Opera History takes a look back at the unforgettable weddings, shocking twists, dramatic exits, and iconic debuts that happened on this date ...

Although soap operas like Days of Our Livesand General Hospital have relied on the same set of tropes for decades now, that doesn’t mean that viewers have gotten sick of these far-fetched storytelling ...

Tom's career in daytime dramas began on 'The Young and the Restless' in 1990 ...

Soap operas’ detractors usually cite the same critiques of the genre, calling out the over-the-top drama, the frequent recasting of characters, the workmanlike production design and cinematography, ...

Overview of the upcoming BGSU conference “Soap Operas in Popular Culture.” The soap opera started in the 1930s on radio and remains a fixture today in various formats. How has the soap opera ...

Bad news for soap fans. Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in radio and television history, airs its last episode today, "after more than 15,000 episodes, at least 65 Emmy awards and too ...

Irna Phillips, who created not only As the World Turns and Guiding Light but also brought to life numerous radio dramas in ...