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The holiday season is upon us, which often means pre-emptions and reruns for General Hospital (GH), The Young and the Restless (YR), Days of Our…

On General Hospital (GH), both Jake and Danny just found out that the guy they thought was their dad is really their uncle. Musical parent…

Soap schemer. Soap vixen. Soap siren. They’re a soap opera trope. Think Quinn (Rena Sofer) and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) on The Bold and the…

Soaps have changed quite a bit since the early days. For one thing, they used to be on the radio, then on TV, and now…

Fans watch soaps for love, romance, adventure, family, and… boardroom shenanigans? Just how thrilling is it to watch your favorites scrutinizing a spreadsheet, sweating out…

The soap opera ratings race for the week ending December 1 show improvements for one fledgling soap, and up and down numbers for three others.…

Recasts happen. Every soap opera has done it. Sometimes they work out great, like Nikki on The Young and the Restless (yes, Melody Thomas Scott is…

All soap operas have their Christmas traditions. There is the Horton Christmas tree on Days of Our Lives (DOOL), with the ornaments bearing names of…

It’s true that many a soap opera character has been known to act like an animal. They growl, they bare their teeth, they toy with…

The soap opera ratings race for the week ending November 27 offers some great news to one soap making a comeback–and not-so-great news to another…

Thanksgiving… Christmas… New Year’s… soaps have gotten into the habit of airing “classic” (i.e. rerun) episodes… on days when people are actually home from work…

If there is one thing soap opera writers and producers know, it’s that you can’t please all of the people all of the time. No…

The year 2017 is almost at an end, and 2018 will be here before we know it. With a new year comes the possibility of a…

On The Bold and the Beautiful (BB), Brooke has slept with practically every male member of the Forrester family — and their half-brothers. General Hospital’s…

The soap opera ratings race for the week ending November 17 show one soap demonstrating signs of life once again while others posted mixed numbers.…

Soaps would be pretty boring if everyone just got along all the time. Fights are part and parcel of the daytime drama experience, whether its…

Soaps have told plenty of social issue stories in the past, ranging from Phil being presumed dead in Vietnam on All My Children to General…

Everyone loves a good whodunit, soap fans as much as anybody else. Who can forget Days Of Our Lives (DOOL) Salem Strangler, the Loving Murders,…