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All Your Soap Opera Memories

Annie Scudder — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:58:08 PDT

After more than 40 years, fans of All My Children will say goodbye to the Pine Valley family today. Following devastating news that ABC planned to cancel All My Children and One Life to Live, thousands of soap fans across the web signed a petition to "implore ABC to not remove our beloved shows." Since Internet petitions are powerless in the face of cheaper, higher-rated reality TV weight-loss shows (said to fill the daytime slot), it's time to say goodbye to Pine Valley and Llanview. TrèsSugar readers and Facebook fans have reminisced about their favorite soap operas - from coming of age with the characters to finding comfort in sick-day marathons, take a look back at all your soap opera memories.

Do You Have a Favorite Soap Opera?

Annie Scudder — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:55:42 PDT

Shocking news hit lovers of Pine Valley today - ABC announced it's canceling All My Children! Erica Kane and her many husbands, lovers, friends, and enemies will say goodbye in September, and they aren't the only casualties. One Life to Live will take its last breath in January. Considering the soaps have been on for a combined total of 83 years, many fans will be sad, including me. When I was little, my mom used to tape AMC faithfully, and we would watch it at night, sometimes catching up with multiple episodes in a row. I started watching the show so young (don't worry, she fast-forwarded all the bedroom scenes) that I think it took me a few years to realize Tad, Dixie, Adam, Brooke, Opal, and everyone else weren't real people living their unusually dramatic lives.

As of next year, only four network soap operas will be left: Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, The Young and The Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful. Do you have a sentimental favorite?

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Kourtney Kardashian's Soap Opera Debut

PopSugarTV — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:16:47 PDT

Kourtney Kardashian trades in reality TV for daytime TV when she makes an appearance on One Life to Live.

6 Things to Know About Afghanistan's First Soap Opera

Annie Scudder — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:15:21 PDT

Soap operas might be the low of American culture (don't tell James Franco), but in Afghanistan they serve lofty objectives. In a country where the Taliban forbade women to even go to school not too long ago, it's empowering for women to work and gain public recognition. And for viewers at home, the show tells the familiar story of life since the fall of the Taliban. In last weekend's New York Times Magazine, Elizabeth Rubin interviewed actresses on the country's first soap opera: The Secrets of This House. Here are six things I learned. You can check out part of the first episode (subtitled) in the video below.

The actresses risk their lives. One explains: "If the Taliban come back, they'd behead all of us."
"The Murdoch of Kabul" produces the show, and according to Rubin, he "darts around the world tending to kids and business and politics in Australia (where he spent his teenage years) and in Dubai, Kabul, Washington, Los Angeles."
The writers workshopped with the screenwriter of Pretty Woman.

See the rest after the jump.

Oh Snap! Her Life's Like a Soap Opera

TresSugar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 PST

Afghan actress Trena Amiri films a scene for the soap opera Love and Old Age in Kabul. Trena, who is divorced and rarely sees her three children according to Afghanistan's custody laws, tries to be discreet about her career because many people are critical of her lifestyle.

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Flashback: Paper Dolls

GiggleSugar — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT

Like Manimal one year before it, Paper Dolls lasted only two months - from September 1984 to December 1984. A prime-time soap opera set around a fictional modeling agency, the show (called Karussell der Puppen in Germany!) starred Lloyd Bridges, Morgan Fairchild, Mimi Rogers, and introduced Nicollette Sheridan. With a trailer this awesome, I wonder why it did so badly! (Bonus info: Three of the cast members went on to do Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Hahaha!)

Should Snoop Dogg Be in the Soap Bizzle?

GiggleSugar — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:00 PDT

He made a name for himself as a Grammy-winning rapper, took the English language by storm (for shizzle!), and then went the reality TV route to show off his domestic chops. He's a versatile dude, but who would've ever seen soap operas in Snoop's future? Not only is he doing the acting and performing thang on two episodes of One Life to Live (aired today and yesterday), he also recorded a new theme song to introduce these shows. Roll the credits, listen up, and let me know what you think of Snoop's new career move. (For more on the story, click here.)

Passions: Trashiest Soap Opera Ever?

GiggleSugar — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:10:51 PDT

And by "trashiest" I mean awesomest. "Passions" specializes in little people
characters who have special powers. I've never been a fan of soaps, but when
there's one that has seemingly crossed with "The Twilight Zone," you can't
look away. Without further ado, I present you with The Rapping Elf.

Daytime TV Has Gone Disney

GiggleSugar — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:19:30 PDT

I thought soap operas were in the business of airing backstabbing drama and torrid love affairs, not reviving classic Disney cartoon plots. A show must really be fishing for a new development when the writers have to drag The Little Mermaid into the storyline. (But have no fear, all the bad acting is still here!)

The Most Moving Moment In Soap Opera History

GiggleSugar — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST

The Golden Globes may have come and gone, but there's one award they forgot to announce last night: the "That Actor Has Balls!" award. Yes, folks, we here at GiggleSugar would now like to present that award to this transgendered-by-daytime dude. He asks, "What do you see underneath this slinky slip?" Why, we see his big, bad masculine acting, of course! And we applaud it.