14 Facts About Soap opera

Soap opera, or soap for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.

Crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes.

Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments.

American soap opera Guiding Light started as a radio drama in January 1937 and subsequently transferred to television in June 1952.

Soap opera is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the actor with the longest uninterrupted performance in a single role.

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Soap opera ratings have significantly fallen in the US since the 2000s.

Circulations of soap opera magazines have decreased and some have even ceased publication.

Soapnet, which largely aired soap opera reruns, began to be phased out in 2012 and fully ceased operations the following year.

The first prime time soap opera was Faraway Hill, which aired on October 2,1946, on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.

Since the 1980s, UK soap opera have routinely featured scenes shot outdoors in each episode.

The first Australian television soap opera was Autumn Affair featuring radio personality and Blue Hills star Queenie Ashton making the transition to television.

The soap opera became something of a cult classic, as its 200-episode run was repeated several times on free-to-air and pay television.

In 2022, Alpha produce a new soap opera Paradeisos based on the italian soap Il Paradiso Delle Signore.

The Brazilian version of Chiquititas, which lasted five seasons and ended in 2001, was successful in the ratings as well, in a slightly smaller scale compared to the Argentine version, and despite the success of Malhacao, the soap opera was one of the most known TV programs of the late 1990s in Brazil, enough to put Chiquititas in the imaginary of many Brazilian children.