Irna Phillips was a radio voice actor in Chicago when she was asked to create a serialized program. From that, she created a ...

Before the age of binge-watching and streaming platforms that know what you want to watch before you do, there was an institution known as “appointment television.” For millions, this daily ritual ...

Laden with glamour and loaded with jaw-dropping plot twists, soap operas have entertained audiences for decades, going all the way back to the heyday of radio. While some of them might have been short ...

Overview of the upcoming BGSU conference “Soap Operas in Popular Culture.” The soap opera started in the 1930s on radio and remains a fixture today in various formats. How has the soap opera ...

Early in his NHL career, Wayne Gretzky appeared on the soap opera, The Young and the Restless. He played a mobster out of ...

April 1st is known to many as April Fools' Day, but for television fans, it was the day the small screen got serious about drama. On this day in 1963, two of the most influential medical soap operas ...