Soap operas offer what few other TV shows really can: daily scripted drama and extremely long runs on television, with thousands of episodes over multiple decades. While some former soap opera ...

As I was watching “General Hospital” the other day, I had to wonder why soap operas have such a stronghold on the American public – and why they have for so long. According to an article ...

In her upcoming WBEZ podcast, Natalie Moore dives deep into the history of daytime soaps, a genre she grew up watching with ...

Francisco San Martin, a Spanish actor who appeared on series such as Days of Our Lives and Jane the Virgin, has died at the age of 39, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office.

The two-hour television special airs May 19 on ABC Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s digital vertical at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. Soap operas ...

Fans of the soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light will likely be sad to hear the news that actor Mark Dobies has passed away. His cause of death has not been revealed yet. Dobies passed ...

The soap's creator, Michele Van Jean, who co-wrote the soap with Robert Guza Jr., called it a "messy family drama" in an interview with Soap Opera Spy published on February 23, 2025. She described ...