EastEnders is 40 years old – but will the soap opera make it to 50? - IN FOCUS: The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that ...

Soap operas will NEVER die, no matter how few are left on broadcast TV or how many people make fun ... I’ve watched Days of Our Lives on and off since I was eight years old and came back to it ...

Sometimes something old can feel refreshingly new. The soap opera is a genre older than the invention of the television, dating all the way back to radio serials of the early 20th century.

After leaving Moriches over 60 years ago, Clifton Davis got into show business, and never looked back. He started as an electrician at the old ABC studios in the West 50s, then became an actor ...

In a TV landscape awash with reality TV shows that run in a three-month cycle, and sitcoms and dramas that have 13- or 22-episode seasons, soap operas are unique because they turn out five shows a ...

W hen EastEnders launched on BBC One in 1985, Britain’s most popular soap operas were being imported from America. Dynasty and Dallas both peddled televised fantasies of extreme wealth ...