What happened to soap operas

CBS's As the World Turns kicked the bucket in 2010, ABC cancelled All My Children in 2011, and then did the same to One Life to Live in 2012.

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With 'Days of Our Lives' moving to Peacock, the number of soap operas on broadcast TV has fallen by 75 percent since 1990.

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A soap opera is a genre of a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.

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3 days ago — Over the next four decades, soaps were steadily overtaken by a wave of emerging television formats, including reality TV, cooking competitions, ...

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To answer your question, soaps aren't dying. They are being slowly murdered by incompetent writers who have no regard or respect for the format or the audience.

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They were able to renew for Season 2, which they will begin shooting soon. Sometimes they shoot 2 or 3 episodes a day. Also, fair warning is ...

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The number of soap operas has declined recently because that loyal audience increasingly no longer exists- many of the women who would have ...

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It seems daytime soap operas have been producing fewer new episodes for the past several years. Nowadays, we get a rerun of nearly every ...

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The cancellation of two soap operas, One Life to Live and All My Children, is still a topic of discussion among fans who are expressing their ...

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