Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are one of many couples whose love blossomed while starring on a soap opera together.

Soap opera fans sometimes feel disheartened when they look at the TV landscape. The golden age, when every network had at least three soaps, is long gone. When NBC moved Days of Our Lives to Peacock ...

Tamara Tunie is perched on the edge of her dressing room’s settee, one (expertly shaped) eyebrow cocked. Gold brushstrokes ornament her flowing black tunic; her hair is gathered in jumbo rollers, like ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natalie Moore about the legacy of soap operas. She is host and writer of "Stories Without End," the new season of the WBEZ podcast "Making." UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: Like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I've always been interested in why soaps are looked down upon. It feels intrinsically linked to sexism," says Levinsky. "It's so ...

Soaps once brought in 75% of a TV network’s revenue, says author Elana Levine. “Soaps were a legitimate kind of pop culture sensation.” Without soaps, we wouldn’t have melodramas or reality shows.

New York — It has been more than 25 years since “Passions,” the last new daytime soap opera to air on American network TV, debuted on NBC. And for nearly as long, Michele Val Jean and Sheila ...

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 ...