General Soap Operas

Soap opera sweeps months are the time when all the usual love, hate, death, romance, angst, and blackmail is turned up to 11! It’s the…

What’s a soap opera wedding without a good wedding crasher? Think Scotty on General Hospital (GH) catching Laura’s bouquet? Or The Bold and the Beautiful’s…

The soap opera ratings race for the week ending September 22 show a surge for one soap and mixed numbers for others. General Hospital Perhaps…

Chad and Abby, and Sonny and Paul on Days Of Our Lives (DOOL) are just the most recent soap double wedding, but they’re hardly unique…

Love in the afternoon? Eh, who needs it? We don’t watch soaps for the love stories or the fantasy. We watch it for the corporate…

They say everyone has a lookalike out there somewhere… but doesn’t it seem like the phenomenon is more prevalent on soaps? Is General Hospital’s (GH)…

You can feel it coming. Along with the weather changes, soap sweeps months — the months when ratings are used to set advertising rates —…

The soap opera ratings race for the week ending September 15 show that the good news most soaps experienced earlier in the month seems to…

Just like people’s memories can be unreliable, so do soaps periodically forget what exactly happened during their multi-decades-long histories. General Hospital’s (GH) Carly is now…

Heroes and villains often feel like the essence of soap opera, the classic tale of good versus evil with good usually prevailing… but not always.…

Remember the days when there were so many soaps that you even had a soap network aptly called SOAPNet? And remember when SOAPNet had its…

The soap opera ratings race shows Days of Our Lives (DOOL) on an upswing for the second week in a row, while other soaps took…