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Soap or Drama Series?

Is there a reference for this statement: “… RTÉ wanted a drama series for its Sunday night lineup rather than a soap opera, On Home Ground (2001–2002), The Clinic (2002–2009) and RAW (2010–2013) replaced the agri-soaps of the previous decades.“ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura howard ie (talk • contribs) 20:46, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Latin América?

Latin America's melodramas are extremely important in the history of the genre. Where are they here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.174.88.159 (talk) 22:13, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I cannot believe there is not one single mention of Latin American soap operas, which are not only influential worldwide (e.g. Maria La Del Barrio's influence in Europe and Asia, but also often have higher primetime ratings in the U.S. than English-language television programming). Cumbiagermen (talk) 23:05, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Procter&Gamble

I think a small excerpt on the name origins of the term "Soap opera" would be informative. Being that many of them were sponsored by Procter & Gamble, which is a company that manufacturers soap. I mean if we can get a citation on it of course.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.208.74.79 (talk) 20:42, June 14, 2013 (UTC)

TV Series aka Soap Operas

The following TV series could be looked upon as "Soaps" depending on your point of view:

    • Every sequel series of Star Trek {orginal series} {including MOVIES}
    • The Sopranos-everyone's favortie gangster family.
    • Any other canidates?

I AGREE ON TV SERIES AS SOAPS!!!

  • Another canidates would be the mini-series Centennial (novel) and any other mimi-series based on novels-or based on movies-such as MASH.

"Link to Centennial (TV miniseries)-{When TNT showed this series for 3 months straight for hours on end-it killed any chance of me being a Soap Opera fan!!}

Surely Downton Abbey should be included here as well? It seems to meet much of the criteria for a soap opera. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Divemast (talk • contribs) 23:41, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2007 Daytime Airhog Awards

Rank Actor (Character) Show Total Episodes Appeared 1. Alicia Minshew (Kendall Hart Slater) All My Children (ABC) 233 2. Lindsay Hartley (Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald) Passions (NBC) 228 3. Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) General Hospital (ABC) 222 4. Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos) General Hospital (ABC) 220 5. Thorsten Kaye (Zach Slater) All My Children (ABC) 215 6. Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) 213 7. Eric Martsolf (Ethan Crane) Passions (NBC) 209 Cameron Mathison (Ryan Lavery) All My Children (ABC) 209 9. Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) General Hospital (ABC) 206 10. Julie Berman (Lulu Spencer) General Hospital (ABC) 205 11. Michael Easton (John McBain) One Life to Live (ABC) 203 Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Webber) General Hospital (ABC) 201 13. Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady) Days of Our Lives (NBC) 192 14. Emily Harper (Fancy) Passions (NBC) 190 15. Ronn Moss (Ridge Forrester) The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) 189 Greg Vaughan (Lucky Spencer) General Hospital (ABC) 189 17. Galen Gering (Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald) Passions (NBC) 187 18. Kelly Monaco (Samantha McCall) General Hospital (ABC) 184 19. Jacob Young (J.R. Chandler) All My Children (ABC) 179 Melissa Claire Egan (Annie Lavery) All My Children (ABC) 178 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.21.217 (talk) 23:59, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What, no radio?

Someone mentioned it above, but there's a serious lack of Old Time Radio here. The genre was first developed on radio, after all. I'm only familiar with American radio, but I know that daytime soaps were very popular. The husband/wife team of Anne & Frank Hummert started producing soaps as early as 1933, and were a soap opera factory, producing many shows over the years in an assembly line-like process. How can you have a Soap Opera page without dealing with the originators? There must be someone out there who cares enough to do the writing. MarkinBoston (talk) 02:34, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article looks kind of horrible...

Excuse me, but this article looked kind of like a trainwreck until I cleaned it up. I have listed several mistakes:

There is no space between a comma and a statement in the first paragraph.

In the first paragraph, "uk", (supposed to be UK), is not capitalized.

History of ...

Where is the history (radio shows, which was first tv show, which was first sponsored by soap?) Who are Clara Lu and Em from 1931 mentioned by BBC?[1] Rmhermen (talk) 16:06, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How come first US network TV soap opera not mentioned?

Surely Faraway Hill deserved a mention somewhere in the article? Suddenly There Is a Valley (talk) 10:22, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of the genre

Why does this section start with radio? (Lever Brothers as far as I know) first came up with the concept of a Soap Opera; long, long before Marconi sent voices through the either. There are contempery bill posters on display in Port Sunlight, advertising the Uniliver's Soap Opera long, long before mains electricity... [2]'[3],[4]--Aspro (talk) 15:32, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Soap or Drama Series?

Is there a reference for this statement: “… RTÉ wanted a drama series for its Sunday night lineup rather than a soap opera, On Home Ground (2001–2002), The Clinic (2002–2009) and RAW (2010–2013) replaced the agri-soaps of the previous decades.“ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura howard ie (talk • contribs) 20:47, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Korean soap opera

I'm surprised that there is no section on South Korean soap opera. There is a lot of it, and it is increasingly popular in some other countries, such as Taiwan.Bill (talk) 02:38, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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