Even though only four original soap operas remain on the air, our appetite for high drama has never been more insatiable.

Druckman and Sen’s book isn’t an exhaustive treatise on the birth of soap operas to the present day. It’s an exploration of the genre, its tropes, triumphs, setbacks, and reimaginings over a ...

Decades before Dynasty and Melrose Place, Peyton Place began the grand tradition of the prime time soap opera. The series, which aired 514 episodes from 1964 to 1969, turned Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1956, Grace Metalious shook up the literary world with Peyton Place, her bold novel about women's lives in a fictional New ...

During the 1980s, audiences were captivated by the glamorous and scandalous world of Dynasty’s Carrington and Colby families. Forty-five years after premiering on ...

Joanne Brough, a television producer who helped return the soap opera to prime-time television with such popular shows as “Dallas” and “Falcon Crest,” died February 24 of esophageal cancer at Joplin, ...