"Makeup channels are like soap operas on steroids," Een said.
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"We watch Chinese soap operas and eat ramen," she said.
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She's been on sitcoms, dramas and, of course, soap operas.
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We have soap operas and songs being made about them.
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Beacham appeared on soap operas like "The Colbys" and "Dynasty."
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Because that's what rich parents do in overheated soap operas.
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But there are lots of soap operas and dramas and comedies.
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Some people have even been detained for watching foreign soap operas.
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Directors scouted filming locations in Alemão for scenes in soap operas.
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We have tea, biscuits, soap operas, austerity, and small-town mentalities.
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On television, Long March soap operas, documentaries and variety shows abound.
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We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially 'Days of our Lives.
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That kind of furor is what soap operas were built off of.
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Assassin's Creed does the same work for us that soap operas do.
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"He can come back to act in soap operas," Mr. Valente said.
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Mr. Thae himself was an avid fan of South Korean soap operas.
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It&aposs better than watching soap operas in the middle of the day.
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Another bad stereotype from movies and soap operas is that everyone needs chemotherapy.
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This, for most of TV history, was space reserved exclusively for soap operas.
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It is a briefing, not a news event that supplants daytime soap operas.
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The siblings' turbulent relationship is one of the league's long-running soap operas.
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Shows filled with stand-up sets get less respect than even soap operas.
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The stories are the standard stuff of television dramas, sitcoms and soap operas.
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I've started exploring the same themes by working with actors and making soap operas.
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The service will look to develop new Arabic content, including films and soap operas.
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You can go from cartoons, to soap operas, to the news, to science fictions.
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Conservative commentators decry its foreign soap operas, dubbed into Amharic, for corrupting Ethiopian culture.
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The internet of the 1990s offered us both C-Span and soap operas. We
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This leads to the kind of nasty argument that soap operas were made for.
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They fill thumb drives with news—as well as soap operas and baseball games.
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And as daytime audiences shrunk, talk grew, while higher-priced soap operas were cancelled.
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It is among Britain's most popular soap operas, with millions tuning in each week.
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" Ms. Drummond played recurring characters on the soap operas "Dark Shadows" and "Ryan's Hope.
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Frustrated that you cannot watch the latest British dramas or soap operas on television?
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Televisions are tuned to the Golf Channel or Korean game shows and soap operas.
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But I remember the soap operas on television that were on all the time.
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Its bundles of channels include Chinese Super League football, kung-fu movies and soap operas.
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But I always remind myself this is nothing compared to the pace of soap operas.
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"We used to watch soap operas, which are highly exaggerated versions of reality," he said.
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Soap operas don't make sense, and neither does the current state of the U.S. government.
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"In terms of entertainment, soap operas and movies, they can go ahead," Prayuth told reporters.
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The main guy in it, the father, he's a known for acting in soap-operas.
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Over the decades he appeared in practically every televised genre, from sitcoms to soap operas.
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Her mother, an actor, has appeared in soap operas, movies and live theater in Mexico.
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Her mother is an actress who has appeared in movies, television commercials and soap operas.
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Lyle starred on the Mexican soap operas Mi adorable maldición and Corazón que miente, among others.
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They launch balloons carrying anti-regime messages, South Korean soap operas and money across the border.
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"Unfortunately I think sometimes people turn morning shows into soap operas that they're not," she explained.
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American soap operas have a bit of glamour, but George loved it, he couldn't miss it.
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Really, who needs soap operas, these days, when modern fighting games are so deliriously, intoxicatingly extravagant?
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Television soap operas were an offshoot of 1930s radio dramas, which were sponsored by soap companies.
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"I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before," Jones said in 85033.
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Seduced by the country's soap operas and K-Pop teen bands, many will visit South Korea.
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"I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before," Jones said in 2016.
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The ever-churning arcs of soap operas also provide Smith yet another analogy for his job.
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She found her way into soap operas serendipitously, knowing about them only as a onetime viewer.
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Hasselhoff continued to act in soap operas, plays, and even appeared in a few reality shows.
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Though soap operas have introduced characters who are trans, no prime-time show has followed suit.
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But unlike American soap operas, whose viewership has plummeted in recent years, telenovelas remain immensely popular.
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As Halep's trademark on-court soap operas go, the stunning upset was still swift, almost routine.
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Every evening, she watches one to two hours of South Korean soap operas on her phone.
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The only problem is, I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before.
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They chat, play cards and watch soap operas on TVs mounted near headstones or ornamental crosses.
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On some days, soap operas were pre-empted to carry the White House news briefing live.
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Knocking down walls isn't that easy Soap operas have kissing scenes and action movies have car chases.
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Broadly speaking, it's how soap operas are structured, particularly daytime ones that inch glacially toward their climaxes.
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Like clockwork, every weekday late afternoon, she can be found on the couch watching her soap operas.
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Ms Haque believes that popular Indian soap operas have helped to propagate a more liberated world view.
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"They shared an interest in baseball and soap operas," Raissman wrote in the Daily News, in 2012.
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There's usually just one shared television in the marketplace that shows championship football or Nigerian soap operas.
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It's a widely-known, weird fact that British people love Australian soap operas more than Australians do.
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Telemundo actors say their pay is generally not as high as their counterparts in American soap operas.
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Soap operas that reveled in the split personality — not actually a real disorder — as a plot point.
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I mean, the networks stopped doing soap operas and ran the Senate Watergate hearings back to back.
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Fittingly, the musical changes the setting from the world of soap operas to that of Broadway musicals.
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He grew up watching Spanish-language soap operas, which were must-see TV in traditional Hispanic households.
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After her Miss Universe win in 2010, Ximena Navarrete went on to star in Spanish soap operas.
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Hawkins had roles in soap operas like "Ryan's Hope" and "As the World Turns" in the '70s.
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TV doesn't get much more dramatic than on classic soap operas like All My Children, which Burnett adored.
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It's a dour security bot that likes to watch steamy soap operas, and would rather be left alone.
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Last night on The Late Late Show, he tried his hand at soap operas with a musical twist.
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"My connotation was 1980s ladies with long red fingernails sipping blush wine and watching soap operas," she says.
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The sobs and drama nonetheless did keep flowing, first in daytime soap operas and later in nighttime soaps.
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Soap operas with their repetitive, open-ended structure reflected the rhythms of women's housework—and so did baseball.
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Chester's infidelities were among the more mundane events on "Soap," a prime-time sendup of daytime soap operas.
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Moving back into the public spotlight, he reappeared in television movies, soap operas, game shows and episodic series.
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Sensitive, emotional men aren't new in movies; a lot of war movies are soap operas with heavy artillery.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — It could have been the plot of one of Brazil's hugely popular nighttime soap operas.
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But remember that Indians often distrust politicians and public officials, says Shoma Munshi, an expert on Indian soap operas.
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Today Taiwan sends Paraguay money, police vehicles and soap operas dubbed into Spanish, and trains students and army officers.
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It silences the "soap operas" to a degree, but raises a whole slew of other weird and intrusive questions.
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Now he is extending his iron grip to a new corner of Egyptian society: the country's cherished soap operas.
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It bundles and delivers 203 niche online channels, including Cartoon Hangover and DramaFever, which focuses on Korean soap operas.
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She appeared in "Scarface" and the first two "Lethal Weapon" films, and in soap operas and other television shows.
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On Pro Basketball HOUSTON — DeMarcus Cousins used to watch soap operas with his grandmother when he was growing up.
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Turkey has also made some inroads with cultural exports, with some of its daytime soap operas becoming hits in Chile.
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"TV is not just entertainment—it is a big source of education," says Purnendu Shekhar, a writer of soap operas.
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TC: You'd gone to film school and were producing daytime soap operas when the idea of Emagispace came to you.
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Families like the Lalekas, and 101 others listed in one catalogue, still pop up frequently as villains in soap operas.
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Just because she's fashion obsessed and loves her soap operas doesn't mean she can't get a 179 on her LSATs.
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Suffering from diminished lung capacity, she spends her days under a red blanket on a thin couch, watching soap operas.
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ON A TYPICAL night in India the family television set might be tuned to one of countless dowdy soap operas.
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I'd discovered a whole new world, like a stay-at-home-mom discovering daytime soap operas for the first time.
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After dinner, I would make us a pot of English tea, and we'd watch his Pakistani soap operas on YouTube.
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But while most networks rotated coverage to make space for soap operas and game shows, PBS televised all 250 hours.
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I worked at a restaurant in the California Adventure Park at Disneyland that was based on different ABC soap operas.
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This is probably an unoriginal insight, but I came to recognize that these programs are basically soap operas for millennials.
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A single grumpy security unit — Murderbot — fights for life, liberty, and the pursuit of hours and hours of soap operas.
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After dinners of fish or pork and homegrown vegetables, her family often sits down together to watch Thai soap operas.
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I was groomed to care — our mother raised my brother and me while CBS soap operas played in the background.
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Soap operas are also being used to reach teenagers, with plot lines tackling the issue of teen pregnancy and safe sex.
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He landed roles in daytime soap operas, including NBC's Another World and ABC's Loving before getting his big break on 90210.
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It had higher ratings than the afternoon soap operas and became a national news story about sex, violence, and heavy metal.
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Television is perhaps the most enthusiastic adopter of the drink-slap, and soap operas, in particular, are associated with the act.
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She gave up her royal titles after marrying an American and she has starred in soap operas and an action movie.
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The law was often flouted by entertainment channels and cable operators airing Indian films and soap operas wildly popular in Pakistan.
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When not working on novels Mr Eka blogs and writes for television—"soap operas, and whatever else they order from me".
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It knows the legacy of Archie Comics, and it knows the legacy of the teen soap operas that came before it.
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Another factor, some sociologists argue, is Turkish soap operas, which are very popular and often depict men treating their wives romantically.
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Photograph by Moises Saman / Magnum for The New Yorker In a camp outside Qayyarah, internally displaced Iraqis watch Indian soap operas.
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In retrospect, this was a mistake because the daily briefing was not supposed to be an alternative to daytime soap operas.
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And myriad other sites — focusing on Asian soap operas, animation, Bollywood films, horror, documentaries — are going after the same discretionary dollars.
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But the biggest debt the Fast and the Furious movies owe to soap operas is the shifting alliances of its characters.
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We were a group of improv actors that would come in once an hour, dressed like characters from these soap operas.
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During those decades, as cinema was gradually fading away, Pakistan's television soap operas boomed and provided entertainment for the middle classes.
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Not only was I clueless about how challenging the work on soap operas could be, I thought I was above it.
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Then there was the president's frustrated bromance with Mr. Putin, one of the other mini-soap operas that flavored the meeting.
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" Like the title character, Due "grew up watching soap operas" and still is a fan of "The Bold and the Beautiful.
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This yearning seems especially keen in China, where state television serves up feudal soap operas with the regularity of daily meals.
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The rights for these soap operas were cheaper to buy than those for United States shows, so networks snatched them up.
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Several shopkeepers in Dandong were watching Chinese soap operas, not the news, although other residents said they were paying close attention.
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It is shot and produced in Mexico City, by a Mexican firm that has made a string of successful telenovela soap operas.
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Keeping her protected isn't enough if he's letting her live on Eggos, TV dinners, and soap operas during her crucial development years.
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Not only had Geo News disappeared, but so had sports and entertainment channels (upsetting fans of the Indian soap operas they carry).
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As a franchise, Assassin's Creed often sells itself as meta-textual historical intrigue, but the games themselves are more like soap operas.
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Pickup trucks are replacing bullock-carts, karaoke bars dot lonely two-lane roads, fishermen can catch up on soap-operas at night.
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"El Patrón del Mal" joined a wave of narconovelas—soap operas featuring drug traffickers—that are notably less concerned with ethical implications.
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Daytime soap operas would go dark next, with the impact on scripted comedy and dramas felt later if a strike is prolonged.
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I thought of the soap operas I often heard unfolding on the TV in the apartment next door, the clatter of clichés.
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" It would feature history, culture, food, lifestyle, education, arts, sports and music programs, along with soap operas and films — "but nothing political.
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Egypt: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is extending his iron grip to a new corner of society: the country's cherished soap operas.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Matt and Becca Hamilton, Olympic curlers from Wisconsin, had a bad habit of turning their matches into soap operas.
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Interspersed are "channel flips" between shorter single-gag clips that take your avatar into sit-coms, soap operas, action movies and infomercials.
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Beyond radio, smuggling USB drives loaded with soap operas, books, and movies into North Korea could reduce dependence on official regime propaganda.
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Still, Americans tuned into Mr. Spicer's pressers in such numbers that their ratings topped the soap operas that shared the time slot.
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"Soap-making ingredient" can be TV CAMERAS if you don't think about the clue as referring to actual soap, but soap operas.
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Those not on cooking or cleaning duty can usually be found lounging across felt-carpeted floors, watching soap operas or doing needlework.
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Noelle Beck, who has appeared in several soap operas and prime-time television shows, and her husband sold their Gramercy Park townhouse.
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It's not often that a late-night fixture gets facetime during the afternoon lineup alongside soap operas and other would-be TV judges.
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Last year, art historian Camille Paglia told Salon that campy, "tear-jerker 'women's pictures' during the Lana Turner era" influenced 1950s soap operas.
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For those who don't track the soap operas of New York State politics, here's a quick recap: Mr. Cuomo was elected in 2010.
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This leads to Riverdale utilizing one of the staples of the best teen soap operas: a slow motion walk through the school hallways.
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And, at one point early in the administration, the press briefings were drawing bigger ratings on some cable channels than daytime soap operas.
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It's a dozen soap operas playing at the same time on a dozen different screens, and you are the star of them all.
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Even after the network lost its government funding after structural economic adjustment, corporate brands continued to sponsor the production of popular soap operas.
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Inside, one encounters articles on Canadian soft power, Latin American soap operas, and Finnish domestic architecture: the casual reading of an armchair diplomat.
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As a theater graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Light announced to her parents that she would not consider working in soap operas.
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We all know, according to soap operas and movies, that real love is all about drama — and liars are drama kings and queens!
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Televisa shares have come under pressure this year as the broadcaster best known for its high-drama soap operas searches for new revenue.
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As soap operas have been supplanted by reality television and now YouTube vlogging, the line between fantasy and reality has become somewhat passé.
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Aside from sports, Telemundo has also attacked Univision's undisputed dominance of soap operas — known as telenovelas — with a new class of edgier productions.
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They read spiritual texts, watch soap operas on their cellphones and ask each other whether they believe in the cave's supposed healing powers.
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Zabit, the elder who asked about soap operas, told me that he directed six hundred people of voting age in his extended family.
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In recent years, the tightly choreographed, super-expensive stadium shows that have long been a music industry staple have morphed into multicity soap operas.
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"He is saying the minimum because he has learnt to be prudent and wants to avoid the soap operas," a senior Western diplomat said.
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The fourth most popular channel in the US in recents weeks, with over 100 million views, is dedicated to these homemade superhero soap operas.
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This week on Why'd You Push That Button, we're getting into one of the real soap operas of modern life: Venmo's public activity feed.
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We've seen enough science fiction (and soap operas I suppose) over the years to know that your evil twin is just around the corner.
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And what if your roommates want to watch soap operas on the TV, while you're keen on watching the football game on your laptop?
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For more than four years, Regan said she has worked on several dozen television and film scripts, including several high-profile UK soap operas.
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"So a movie shot in HFR suffers from its likeness to less vaunted forms of entertainment: soap operas, sporting events, video games," Engber writes.
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A veteran of Brazilian soap operas, Ms. Pitanga is typically cast as a willowy damsel who makes terrible choices when it comes to men.
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"They watch soap operas in Turkish, and read news in Russian, and they wanted to introduce the Roman alphabet to their people," Willems said.
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It spoofs reality shows, infomercials, soap operas, and other TV tropes in seconds-long chunks at a time over the course of four minutes.
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She directed episodes of soap operas, such as "London Bridge," about a restaurant in southeast London, and of "Casualty," a long-running medical drama.
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Yes, Mars in Leo is what soap operas are made of, when colorful fireworks can turn into big blowouts in just a matter of seconds.
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Does he even know his daughter is watching Russian soap operas with Claudia and lurking, half-disguised, in a dodgy neighborhood near the Naval Observatory?
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But who'd have thought that the anchor's departure from Fox News would threaten the future of one of the longest-running soap operas in history?
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The content offering by StarTimes included the sort of Filipino and Turkish soap operas that audiences in places like Kenya had been watching for years.
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Now 62, Burr went on to appear in films like Scarface, the first two Lethal Weapon films and in other soap operas and television shows.
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Appearing in nearly 30 films, Perez was also known for her work in local soap operas, variety shows and also became a popular dangdut singer.
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You could have been having this level of fun with tens of thousands of your nearest and dearest internet friends: Do you like soap operas?
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The bell is a gift from Lalo Salamanca, played by Tony Dalton, whose previous work includes Off Broadway theater as well as Mexican soap operas.
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When he and Bucha, who acts in Urdu-language films and soap operas, appear together in public, she is recognized more often than he is.
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"The impact of the Winters family on Y&R, it's been the strongest African American family, consistently, for almost 30 years on soap operas," Sloane says.
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If it's pink or brightly colored, fun or funny, or related in some way to soap operas, it's coded as female, whether it's female or not.
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She watches Spanish soap operas with her Abuela, but she's also a girl in and out of juvie, a girl who gets suspended and even arrested.
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As the daughter of folksy rock icon John Cougar Mellencamp, Teddi can add a dose of star power that goes beyond soap operas and childhood fame.
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Aside from anime, Crunchyroll also hosts live-action dramas from Japan, South Korea, and other countries that include anime spin-offs and various Asian soap operas.
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Known for its "telenovela" soap operas, Televisa added subscribers to its voice, data and video cable services during the quarter, compared with the prior three months.
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It also has become one of Silicon Valley's most contentious corporate soap operas, while continuing to generate billions in revenue by having helped revolutionize global transportation.
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Peter Brown, who had starring roles in two television westerns in the 1950s and '60s and later acted in soap operas, died on Monday in Phoenix.
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With humor and intellectual curiosity, the Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf's Room for Cream uses the lens of soap operas to investigate contemporary queerness.
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They buy sofas to match what they see in soap operas and advertisements, but protect them with plain sheets that are removed only on special occasions.
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The couples find coordinates for their stories and desires in Bollywood and James Bond films, Pakistani soap operas, the stories of Jeffrey Eugenides and Kamala Das.
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A computerized analysis of billions of words — drawn from soap operas, Supreme Court opinions, and Google Books — showed that these associations hold true across several countries.
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Those who did have access to a television watched Latin soap operas, Hollywood action movies, music videos, police reality shows and the news, according to researchers.
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And it makes the movie feel a little like one of those primetime TV soap operas that indulge in wild fancies in the name of entertaining us.
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He eventually found writing to be his calling and went on to write over 100 TV shows, ranging from variety sketches to panel shows to soap operas.
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They don't ever put women who look like myself, or men with my skin color, as the lead characters in novelas — soap operas — movies, or magazine covers.
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Growing up poor in eastern China, Chang crowded around one of the only two televisions in his village to watch Hong Kong soap operas and TV dramas.
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Tyler Christopher, best known for his roles on soap operas including General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, was arrested on Monday night on public intoxication charges.
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Dramatic portrayals of Mexican crime kings, which began as zany B-grade movies, have evolved into wildly popular soap operas, best-selling novels and major Hollywood productions.
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The public simply never heard much about them, according to the disclaimer, perhaps because no sports organization is better at concealing its soap operas than the Spurs.
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Globo, Brazil's dominant television network, has previously used its widely popular soap operas to shape social debates around contentious issues, including interracial couples and same-sex relationships.
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These "ratchet" reality shows offer a kind of empathy most often found in soap operas and melodrama, the two genres that "Love & Hip Hop" most closely resembles.
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A strike would first affect late-night talk shows and soap operas that use guild writers, sending the programs into repeats or forcing hosts to ad-lib.
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In February, his briefings — which are carried live by cable news networks — garnered an average of 4.3 million viewers, surpassing the viewership of many daytime soap operas.
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At times, activity at the highest level of Korean politics can often seem akin to an episode of the TV soap operas the country exports around the world.
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Parasocial relationships aren't new — the term was first coined in 1965, and was often used to describe the relationship between viewers and their favorite characters on soap operas.
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Primetime Soap Operas (1980s)The female fight holds a seminal place in the nighttime soaps of the 1980s, like Dallas, but Dynasty is perhaps the most notorious example.
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"'Insatiable" is an unexpected little gem, a series so floridly over the top as to feel like a send-up of 1980s soap operas on 21st-century steroids.
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I just stay in bed, watching Russian TV – I have three Russian channels in New York and I really love to keep up with my Russian soap operas!
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CBS knows how to promote these fan favorites – casting them on subsequent seasons, booking them on soap operas and even having them compete on The Price Is Right.
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Last night's episode of The Late Late Show featured another installment of "The Bold and the Lyrical," Corden's skit in which soap operas employ lyrics from popular songs.
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Small adjustments are made to give Showbiz the edge over Chuck E. Cheese, including a room where moms can go to watch soap operas while the kids play.
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Living in Bondage had more in common with popular television soap operas like Ripples or Checkmate, but the VHS format allowed producers to profit directly from their viewers.
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Mysteries swirl in storm clouds in Nick Payne's "Incognito," which opened on Tuesday night at City Center Stage I, enough to fill many seasons of cliffhanger soap operas.
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China is also the key market for South Korean pop culture exports, with soap operas and pop music regular hogging the trending topics list on the Weibo microblog.
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The lovely cinematography that the filmmakers worked to craft starts to get that low budget look of television soap operas, and the actors look a little too real.
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At the same time, to paraphrase Walter Pater, opera is a condition toward which all pop culture aspires: there are soap operas, rock operas, space operas, horse operas.
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British shows that hit it big in America tend to be raucous comedies ("Absolutely Fabulous"), genteel soap operas ("Downton Abbey") or historical re-enactments ("The Crown"), not thrillers.
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A typical edition features between 15,000 and 18,000 files including everything from videos of soap operas and sporting events to software, music, magazine articles, and, yes, contemporary art.
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He had won two Emmy Awards as a scenic designer for soap operas, and when he retired at age 75, he began taking acting classes at Hunter College.
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During the 2007-'08 strike, a small number of soap operas (including As the World Turns and General Hospital) did hire non-union writers to work on scripts.
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In recent years, soap operas have seen a decline in viewership, according to a report published in 2018 by the Office of Communications, or Ofcom, Britain's telecom regulator.
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He returned to school in his 50s to receive a master's degree in social work, practicing as a therapist while continuing to act in soap operas and onstage.
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Over the years I've tried to sample as much of that bounty as I could, from cozy British mysteries to florid Asian soap operas and everything in between.
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Shares of the broadcaster, known for its "telenovela" soap operas, jumped 4.7 percent to 94.10 pesos and were on track for their strongest one-day gain since February.
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She loved listening to soap operas and melodramas, and often incorporated into her work both the entertainment elements of the soaps and the menace of the Brothers Grimm.
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Instead of a nunnery, she went on to a life that could have provided storylines for dozens of soap operas, romance novels, Broadway musicals and tear-jerker movies.
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ART GALLERY – DAY, 25 artists have sourced, reproduced and created artworks in response to a history of art seen across classic movies, science fiction, pornography, musicals, and soap operas.
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He hopes that, as in the world of soap operas, plot twists can erase the past, so the world of politics will forget all his previous deeds and words.
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The enthusiasm is matched in participation levels, too: private leagues in football, cricket, hockey, badminton, wrestling and Kabaddi, an ancient contact sport, battle with soap operas for primetime slots.
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The plan appeared uncharacteristic for a man who made his name by being highly visible, including appearing in comedy shows and one of Britain's best-loved TV soap operas.
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For years, Rivera worked for Mexico's biggest broadcaster Televisa on a series of soap operas, and for a time was one of the country's most popular and recognizable actresses.
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Currently in early development, the new project is inspired by Stamos' career path and will focus on both the fame and success of daytime soap operas in the 1980s.
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"That's unique to Gilmore Girls in this genre, though you could compare it, I suppose, to the nighttime soap operas of the 80s, like Falcon Crest, Dallas," he said.
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The acquisition comes as the so-called Korean Wave of culture exports, from soap operas and K-pop music to food and fashion, boost overseas demand for beauty products.
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Njoku was inspired to create the platform after he moved into his mother's London home and saw that she had switched from watching British soap operas to Nollywood movies.
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TBN, which calls itself the world's most watched religious broadcaster, now has programming 21.3 hours a day, providing Bible study, religious movies and soap operas, and Christian rock videos.
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This screen in the center of the city shows soap operas throughout the day, as well as important news broadcasts, such as the announcement of nuclear or missile tests.
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People communicated on WeChat, baijiu is the drink of choice, laptops streamed soap operas from Hunan TV, and men attacked imaginary fish on gaming consoles flown in from Beijing.
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Maggie Hennefeld, assistant professor of cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, said reality television and soap operas are similar in the way they provide relief for the viewer.
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But the black market fills the gap, with handymen who will tweak your radio to get Chinese stations, and with illegal thumb drives full of South Korean soap operas.
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It's about finding and spreading the viral soap operas that are supposed to reveal the dark hearts of those who are in the opposite social type from your own.
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The issues around brands running on offensive websites and YouTube videos seems like a big departure from the days of P & G funding soap operas and family-oriented shows.
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Then in 1970s, she found a career resurgence in soap operas with long-running roles on Another World/Somerset as Ellen Grant and As the World Turns as Jane Spencer.
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In millions of households around Mexico, families gathered around the television after dinner, watching soap operas and listening to the evening news show on one of the channels it owned.
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While we're now awash in teen soap operas and young adult fiction, until 901986, there had never been a successful American TV drama about the lives of high school students.
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"He said, 'I want people who like soap operas to get addicted to it,'" Mr. Burton was quoted as saying in "The Producers: Profiles in Frustration" (2004), by Luke Ford.
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Originally from St. Louis, Mr. Cohen grew up watching soap operas, and he brings that sensibility to his shows, which he believes are often more substantive than the presidential campaign.
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Advocacy organizations have long used soap operas to educate the public about disease threats, and public health campaigners have also embedded their health messages into children's shows like Sesame Street.
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Mainlanders now see that the majority of Hong Kong residents don't live in sea view villas, drive luxury cars or dine in fine restaurants as they saw in soap operas.
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In recent years, Globo and other television networks have used their powerful positions to combat racism with more prominent roles for black Brazilians on soap operas and reality TV shows.
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As with some blogs or soap operas, the ongoing narration, however tedious it often is, can be weirdly addictive, and the suggestive play with fact and fiction can be intriguing.
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" On his website, Mr. Jones has suggested that the victims' parents took part in an elaborate hoax, saying, "I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before.
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Recently a dispute over South Korea's missile-defense system prompted China to retaliate against Korea's exports of pop music and soap operas, which have become wildly popular with Chinese consumers.
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Its only channel plays programs approved by the government, including news, documentaries and soap operas, the plots of which could hardly be as unlikely as Ms. Park's tumble from power.
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Under Mr. Kim, a new generation is growing up exposed to DVDs and flash drives of South Korean soap operas and movies, raising expectations for a better quality of life.
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I would sit on the thick red carpets with visitors from across Iran and beyond, talking with them about the war in Syria, the latest soap operas and coming elections.
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Many television programs—including soap operas, comedy and game shows—have also been taken off air as a sign of respect while the country's notorious red-light districts have also shuttered.
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Popular South Korean soap operas have been pulled from streaming sites, K-Pop singers have had concerts canceled and there has been a dramatic drop in Chinese tourists to South Korea.
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As media firms profit from the popularity of Korean soap operas, films and music in China and South-East Asia, more are partnering with Chinese firms to produce or promote content.
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The granddaughter of McGill University's dean of dentistry, she first appeared in a church Passion play when she was 4 and was later cast in Canadian television dramas and soap operas.
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The second thread depicts Mario's bond with the obsessive Pedro Camacho (Luis Carlos de La Lombana), who writes the station's hit soap operas and nurtures Mario's aspirations toward a literary life.
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While it remains an authoritarian state, the North is full of private markets, flows of outside information (including South Korean pop music and soap operas), profit-seeking entrepreneurs and consumerist elites.
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Ms. Bolen was just 22009 in 1972 when she was named director of daytime programs at NBC, putting her in charge of the network's collection of soap operas and game shows.
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Word of mouth sent a steady flow of clients, amateur and professional, hoping to break into the unglamorous but financially rewarding arenas of television advertising, soap operas and voice-over work.
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In the context of human history, the book was nothing but a format, a brief technological quirk in the history of human storytelling, younger than theater but older than soap operas.
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Impeachment has upended networks' daytime schedules, where the usual diversions of soap operas and "Ellen"-style chat shows have been usurped by stone-faced government officials offering soliloquies on Ukrainian politics.
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After her husband died, Parveen has moved into Zaynab's apartment and basically sits around all day, spying on potential bachelors for her daughter with literal binoculars and watching Pakistani soap operas.
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Ms. Mbindyo-Koroso says soap operas are so popular because they're aspirational: a pretty, downtrodden hero or heroine overcomes daunting odds — an evil stepmother, a bespectacled business tycoon — to achieve greatness.
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It's easy to forget that reality stars live real lives outside of our experiences of them on TV. Especially Beverly Hills, which is already the seat of so many fictional soap operas.
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Seyfried, 30, got her start starring in soap operas like As the World Turns and All My Children before she went on to play in Karen Smith in 2004's Mean Girls.
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Sure, there were exceptions — Hill Street Blues, Twin Peaks, soap operas — but the default for many if not most scripted series was that each episode existed in a kind of narrative vacuum.
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Channel 286, whose soap operas cater mostly to women of a certain age, occasionally puts on a lush mini-series, often a literary adaptation (''Life and Fate,'' ''And Quiet Flows the Don'').
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" The "Aha!" moment: "Market activity is exploding, and with that comes a flow of information, whether as chitchat from traders who cross into China or as soap operas loaded on USB sticks.
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LONDON — Marc Anwar, an actor on "Coronation Street," one of Britain's most popular soap operas, has been fired for posting a series of Tweets condemning India and Indian citizens in incendiary language.
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I don't watch soap operas and I don't watch boxing, but I've had to learn about these things to keep up conversation, so that my customer feels taken care of and satisfied.
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Investors who have poured over $214 billion into Uber over the last eight years have stomached scandals and soap operas of every kind, including the noisy ouster of its CEO Travis Kalanick.
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There were unions for everything: butchers and theater attendants, well diggers and miners, gas-bill collectors and extras in the trashy TV soap operas that played during the holy month of Ramadan.
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DramaFever, as its name implies, concentrates on serial dramas, many of them romances that are often like high-end soap operas with eccentric (by Western standards) plots and vivaciously slick production values.
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A strike could be a death knell for daytime soap operas, which rely on a new episode almost every weekday, unless producers bring in nonunion writers, which happened during the last strike.
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On "Soap," ABC's prime-time parody of daytime soap operas, which ran from 22008 to 1981, Ms. Helmond played Jessica Tate, a lovable aristocrat who was one of the show's main characters.
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Today, business is still booming: Caroline Mbindyo-Koroso, a CEO and executive producer of African Voices Dubbing Company, says the company started out in early 2015 with two employees dubbing soap operas.
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This travel is driven in part by the popularity of Korean pop culture, ranging from soap operas and to food, in China as the cultural exports spur tourism and spending on featured products.
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In our town, we'd never known Mexicansbesides the women and men in soap-operas, so in our heads, we played the fence,the San Ysidro McDonald's, a quick run, a van, then, ¡Eureka!
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It also used to be really clear what was a movie, what was a TV show—sitcoms, police procedurals, maybe soap operas, there were very few limited boxes in which TV shows fit.
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The two nightly soap operas of Australia, Neighbours and Home and Away, are indeed a point of entry for a large portion of the country's acting talent, who often go on to Hollywood.
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And Isabel Macedo, the new fiancée of Juan Manuel Urtubey, a prominent Argentine governor with presidential ambitions, has been an actress in soap operas, as has Angélica Rivera, the first lady in Mexico.
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This grab-bag approach has certainly worked well enough for other prime-time soap operas, and it will no doubt find an audience here, but the strands interweave awkwardly in the early going.
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" Britons, he said, relished reports of her legendary thriftiness, including stories, apocryphal or not, that she roams Buckingham Palace turning off lights, enjoys soap operas and eats "nonbanquet dinners out of Tupperware containers.
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Afghans avidly consume Hindi language soap operas and Bollywood films, which create a perception of India as a utopian idyll of noble friendships and relatively chaste romances where the good folks always win.
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Even before he gave his account, Mr. Ko had emerged as an intriguing figure in Ms. Park's corruption scandal, which has involved as many plot twists as the best of Korean soap operas.
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Lured by the "Korean Wave" of culture exports, from soap operas and K-pop music to food and fashion, price-conscious younger Chinese visitors are seeking a more authentic and less expensive shopping experience.
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"The workers said that they learned about the reality in South Korea through South Korean TV, soap operas, movies and (the) internet," said South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee at the time.
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Earlier this year, I read the first installment of Martha Wells's Murderbot series, All Systems Red, a novella about a dour, cranky security robot that would rather watch soap operas than interact with people.
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Telenovelas differ from English-language soap operas largely in their scope: Most elapse over a few dozen episodes, and wrap up the lives of their characters in some sort of cumulatively satisfying narrative arc.
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Daytime soap operas would be next affected, but most TV network comedy and drama shows due for broadcast in the next 2-3 months have already been written and filmed, network executives have said.
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He admits this with a laugh that doubles him over, his hand clamping on a nearby shoulder for support, but the Colorado Republican has serious reasons for his immersion in Spanish-language soap operas.
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Through its sponsorship of radio programs like the "Betty Crocker Cooking School of the Air" and one of the earliest soap operas, "Betty and Bob," General Mills introduced its products from coast to coast.
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For much of the past decade, the characters of The CW's nighttime soap operas, supernatural and otherwise, have been forced into an unusual predicament: They are all forced to use Bing, Microsoft's search engine.
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There's a reason soap operas are able to maintain loyal viewers over decades: Many center around a large family, or a group of friends in a small town, with interweaving lives and intricate backstories.
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Hollywood writers reached a tentative deal with representatives of movie and television studios on a new contract early on Tuesday, averting a strike that could have blacked out talk shows and soap operas, media reported.
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Pakistani law only allows 86 minutes of Indian content to be aired by a channel daily, but entertainment channels and cable operators routinely flout the rules as Indian films and soap operas are so popular.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Soap operas could be a powerful new tool in changing attitudes around female genital cutting, researchers said on Wednesday, following a study in Sudan where the ritual remains deeply entrenched.
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MIAMI — It was a scene right out of a juicy telenovela, one of those Spanish-language soap operas that unfold one betrayal and love affair at a time on television screens all over the world.
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They unleashed insults and promoted hashtags bashing Qatar, and Mr. Qahtani forced MBC to stop airing Turkish soap operas because of Turkey's support for Qatar, costing the network millions in losses, according to industry executives.
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Like many actors who love the stage, Mr. Hyman paid the bills with television work — soap operas and police dramas, "Hallmark Hall of Fame" and "The United States Steel Hour," and made-for-TV movies.
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The game is fast-paced and lively; teams are docked points if they are too defensive, and the winner is declared within 2000 minutes, less than that of an episode of popular soap operas in India.
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The recipient of many awards, including a Daytime Emmy for lifetime achievement in 2010, Ms. Nixon often spoke of soap operas as ensembles and would share credit with actors, directors, producers, camera crews and other writers.
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But the larger structural issues of perpetual electoral flux and political soap operas in the region have not been resolved: Parties remain weak, personalistic vehicles, and popular trust in politicians is at an all-time low.
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Population Communications International, the Manhattan-based nonprofit that he ran in the 1980s and '90s, cajoled broadcasters to produce soap operas designed to change people's attitudes toward family planning in countries struggling with rapid population growth.
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LGBT+ characters have featured increasingly on soap operas around the world, from the first openly lesbian character on "All My Children" in 1983 to the first transgender character on a British soap, "Coronation Street," in 1998.
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But while she's toiled on soap operas ("One Life to Live"), sci-fi shows ("Sanctuary") and historical dramas ("Turn: Washington's Spies"), it's "Luke Cage," about a black superhero in Harlem, where she feels most at home.
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" (He was also in the 1972 film version.) His other movie and television work included the soap operas "One Life to Live" and "Another World" and played Bo Derek's father in the hit 1979 film "10.
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He gave up a dream of being Walter Cronkite and moved to New York City and started at the bottom rung at ABC: $210 a week for menial labor on game shows, soap operas and newscasts.
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It&aposs that stomach-turning time of the year when Netflix is releasing holiday films faster than it can churn out vegan documentaries, teen soap operas, or unholy content that exists purely to serve the algorithm.
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It's about the flood of modernity, in the form of outboard motors and cellphones and televised soap operas, as seen from the perspective of a curious but wary society that fears losing itself in the deluge.
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Mr. Sirola was a show-business jack-of-all-trades, acting on Broadway, in small theaters, on television soap operas and dramas, in the occasional movie; he even produced on and Off Broadway late in life.
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Ubolratana, who has starred in Thai soap operas and a movie, relinquished most of her royal titles in 1972 when she married an American, a fellow student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Peter Jensen.
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"[Alec] ended up going to George Washington University for two years, ran for student body president, then came back home to New York where he followed a then classic path: from politics into soap operas," Clinton said.
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That's why the X-Men, for instance, produced such iconic stories: an ensemble of unique, conflicted, and supremely powerful superhumans can make for irresistible soap operas, as well as poignant examinations of current issues and social injustices.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer's briefings have proved to be ratings gold for the cable news networks, even beating soap operas like "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "General Hospital" on broadcast networks CBS and ABC.
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With wryly literate writing, complicated characters and timely explorations of issues like abortion, gun rights, gay marriage and government surveillance, the hourlong drama was an outlier among the procedurals and nighttime soap operas of the broadcast networks.
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Lee Phillip Bell, a co-creator of two of daytime television's most successful and enduring soap operas, "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful," died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles.
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"We were using the same piano that Thelonious Monk would use at 3 in the morning," said Mr. White, who studied acting with Uta Hagen at HB Studio and gained bit roles in movies and soap operas.
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The thaw is a big relief for South Korean tourism and retail firms as well as K-pop stars and makers of films and soap operas, which had found themselves unofficially unwelcome in China over the past year.
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"The workers said that they learned about the reality in South Korea through South Korean TV, soap operas, movies and (the) Internet," he said, implying that this ran counter to Pyongyang's overwhelmingly negative depiction of its longtime rival.
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The programming that's broadcast by AFN is in some ways the American military's portal to news and entertainment at home, as the network broadcasts everything from the shows of Fox News and CNN to soap operas and sports.
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After all, at the Republican National Convention he brought out celebrity endorsers like Willie "Duck Dynasty" Robertson, Scott "Joanie Loves Chachi" Baio, and Antonio "Miscellaneous Soap Operas" Sabato Jr. These are hardly the brightest stars in the firmament.
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One of five children, she made up "epic" stories with her Barbies ("soap operas with different locations and cliff-hangers—that's when I started playing with character"), but she wasn't blind to what was happening outside her door.
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And with that template in mind, we follow the various soap operas involving the performers and workers who meet on a boat, the traveling theater of this musical's title, and then plow through changing (and often hard) times.
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We imitated fashions in Hong Kong soap operas, learned rudimentary Cantonese so we could sing Cantopop, and were surprised that the police in television shows had to work hard to prove that anybody, even a gangster, was guilty.
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Mr. Poindexter believed that advancing issues like overpopulation through the media — particularly in soap operas that offered not only entertainment but also clear messages and positive role models — was essential to moving people to use family-planning clinics.
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There are signs of change: A well-known comedian, Océan, recently came out as a transgender man, and a transgender character was introduced in March on "Plus Belle la Vie," one of France's most popular TV soap operas.
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During her final years, as degenerative arthritis took a sledgehammer to her knees, the two of us would watch melodramatic Indian soap operas while eating achaar, South Asian pickles that her doctor warned were terrible for her health.
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A number of cultural movements can be traced back to this show — dozens of nail-polish and hair-styling trends, but also the rebirth of prime-time soap operas, and the practice of TV stars live-tweeting alongside viewers.
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No longer as profitable or as relevant as they once were, today's soap operas are embarrassed to own their most compelling traits—even as other television genres scoop up the kind of acclaim formerly reserved for art-house films.
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But what stands out in my memory is a conversation in which he told me how he had begun watching Palestinian soap operas in order to better understand the people with whom he hoped soon to live in peace.
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Susan Bernard, an actress in soap operas and low-budget films who also promoted her photographer father's vast archive of images of Marilyn Monroe, died on June 21 at her home in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles.
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As "This Bridge" keeps taking unexpected turns, Mr. Gutierrez both amplifies and undercuts stereotypes of Latin American identity, those that play out in soap operas and — though the references are less direct — in the rhetoric of our national leaders.
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K-pop emerged in South Korea in the early 1990s, and labels such as JYP, DSP and YG built the nation's pop industry from the ground up, creating a training scheme that churned out stars for music, soap operas and movies.
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The service is home to British soap operas including EastEnders, Emmerdale, Holby City, and Casualty, as well as classic comedies including The Office (yes, the original), Gavin & Stacey, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Absolutely Fabulous, Blackadder, and Red Dwarf.
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The president suspended from office pending impeachment over dodgy government accounting; a caretaker administration left to tackle the worst recession since the 1930s; all amid an operatic bribery scandal with twists and turns that make Brazil's telenovelas (soap operas) look logical.
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I talk a lot about some of the weirder things that formal US military personnel are involved in around the world — from cattle vaccination programs to anti–human trafficking programs to writing soap operas for Iraqi audiences to training Afghan judges.
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Soap operas are designed never to end and "Game of Thrones" fans would only have been happy, one suspects, if the series had been extended by a final twist, so their favourite characters could bicker and conspire for a few more years.
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Although if they were, then the Cabbage Patch Kids were in cahoots with them, along with professional sports and soap operas, sitcoms, and talk shows, Saturday morning cartoons, minivans, and home improvements, and enough soda pop to fuel many a journey to space.
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He first broke onto the scene in the 60's and 70's, making appearances in film and television — including on soap operas General Hospital and The Young and the Restless — before landing the role as Shawn Brady on Days in 1983.
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Agnes Nixon, a celebrated creator and writer of television soap operas, who introduced uterine cancer, venereal diseases, child abuse, AIDS and other societal terrors into the weekday fantasy worlds of millions of daytime viewers, died on Wednesday in Rosemont, Pa. She was 93.
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Mr. Johnson is still finishing up "American Dresser," which was written and directed by Carmine Cangialosi, a 44-year-old actor with a résumé dotted with small parts in daytime soap operas (he played Lou the Hitman on several episodes of "Guiding Light").
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Thicke was a jack-of-all-television-trades, a convivial personality who did soap operas, game shows, sitcoms, had his own late night gig, wrote for the great Fernwood Tonight, and even penned the theme songs for Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life.
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So great is the lure of Europe's club competitions and so compelling are the endless soap operas around their teams, that it is easy for those in the countries that have appointed themselves the sport's heartlands to be dismissive of international soccer.
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But during soap operas and dramas broadcast on Italian television, he said a small subtitle had been added to scenes that showed characters kissing or acting in close physical contact: "This program was recorded before the 1st of March," reads the message.
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Most newer TVs, meanwhile, come with a bunch of random junk turned on by default; things like motion smoothing that makes epic movies look like soap operas, or noise reduction that can wash out details and make an actor's skin look cyborg-y.
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Drawing on not only the games themselves but also social media, off-court news, advertising and even politics, the league combines the melodrama of soap operas, the intimate access (whether real or contrived) of reality television and the personalized whimsy of fan fiction.
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With a drive to rival Jordan's and an ability to tune out critics who at times assailed his ball dominance and shot selection, Bryant was the central and enduring figure in one of the most gripping soap operas in modern professional team sports.
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In 1971, the British critic Raymond Durgnat observed that the "rationalist puritanism" of some critics meant that they often disliked female-driven soap operas and the emotional vulnerability they stir up, but didn't object to what he smartly called the male weepie.
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Like other marginalized groups — Jews of an earlier generation who objected to the tenement soap operas of Clifford Odets; blacks who found Uncle Tomism in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" — many gays saw betrayal in honest, let alone exaggerated, portraits.
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Parked Toyota and Mitsubishi SUVs dot its narrow streets, which are largely quiet as children are at school, their parents working abroad and the grandparents cooling off in their porches overlooking spacious back yards, or on leather sofas inside, watching soap operas on flatscreen TVs.
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"It is with a very heavy heart that I wake up this morning to hear about the passing of my good friend @KristoffStJohn who I started off my acting career with on the Soap Operas #Generations & #Young&TheRestless and recently #AChristmasCruise WOW!" she wrote.
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"Cursed" characters are a staple in soap operas (and maybe even doubly so in telenovelas) because they are a fun, simple way to wreak a little havoc on the main cast without worrying about finding down-to-earth explanations for all the strange occurrences.
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Chinese soap operas and Korean romantic comedies, British conspiracy thrillers, Indian gangster sagas, moody Scandinavian ghost stories, Mexican melodramas, Spanish crime capers, French children's shows and Japanese anime — the only bar to entry is how many TV and streaming subscriptions you're willing to spring for.
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The detainees spent most of their time staring out the windows at sooty buildings and industrial lots or watching soccer games and soap operas on TV. Alex was rarely able to take the classes that the jail offered, because criminal inmates were given priority.
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In his half-hour "Galloping Gourmet" segments, taped in Canada and broadcast in the United States between weekday soap operas (and seen in most British Commonwealth countries as well), the focus was on meat and a lot of it, often as not larded with cream.
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The nomination of the king's elder sister, who has starred in soap operas and an action movie and gave up her royal titles after marrying an American, was a shocking move by forces loyal to Thaksin, who face an uphill battle in the election.
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Ten years ago this week, one of the coldest and most nihilistic teen soap operas ever made premiered on The CW. But you wouldn't have known that's what Gossip Girl was going to be from the first episode, or even from the first 13 episodes.
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At a briefing in Shanghai, a mental health official, asked how people could avoid stress over the outbreak, said they should not watch too much news about it but enjoy television soap operas instead: "That could help people relieve their anxiety," said the official, Xie Bin.
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On TV, couples like these appeared in the occasional storylines on shows, like Tom and Helen in The Jeffersons, and later soap operas and '90s hits like Ally McBeal, The West Wing, and ER. In all of the above, however, opposite skin colors were a focal point.
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There were so many books, movies, and YouTube compilations of German soap operas to help me make sense of my sexuality (my favorite gay soap storyline was in Verbotene Liebe) yet there were very few video games about young gay people trying to figure out their shit.
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Zea's varied résumé includes recurring roles on dramas (Justified, The Following) and soap operas (Passions) alike, but in The Detour, she not only proves her comic timing bona fides opposite Jones but steals almost every scene she's in by delivering Robin's jokes with a casual shrug.
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I realize this is ridiculous coming from a guy who just wrote a book with the title "Insane Clown President," but I think we should slowly, methodically focus on the hard facts of everything he's doing and not get into flame wars and distractions and soap operas.
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MYSTIQUE Comic books can be like soap operas, and the shape-shifter Mystique (who has been portrayed by Rebecca Romijn and Jennifer Lawrence) has been through a lot: She led a mutant terrorist group, served as an operative of a government agency and suffered a mental breakdown.
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But it has programmed foreign series more aggressively than other general-interest streamers like Amazon and Hulu, and while smaller specialty sites may have larger offerings in Asian soap operas ("DramaFever") or British dramas (AcornTV), Netflix's scale gives the shows it acquires a greater potential impact.
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Pay Judge Judy whatever she wants and just see if Watch doesn't take off among the group that once traded soap operas for Farmville: In talks with at least three media companies, Facebook has hinted it wants Watch shows aimed at post-college millennials around parenting age and older.
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Once you were playing the game, with its B-movie-like cast of characters with accents that owe more to daytime soap operas than comparable-budget video games, and an emphasis on swearing to look cool, you saw how removed the marketing was from the base tenets of play.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - University student 'A', says she used to be a 'typical girl' who liked to shop, drink bubble tea and watch Korean soap operas but all that changed as Hong Kong's anti-government protests gained momentum and she stepped up to take a place in the frontlines.
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The shows stay on the air as reliable, time-tested means to satisfy the requirements for Australian-produced television, function as counterprogramming to the nightly news, and signify somewhat differently than American soap operas: more like if The Young and the Restless met The O.C. and never got canceled.
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Before her star turn in "La Reina del Sur," a production by the Spanish-language television network Telemundo, a division of NBCUniversal and the Spanish network Antena 3, Ms. del Castillo rose through the stable of actresses nurtured by the giant Mexican network Televisa, appearing in their weepy soap operas.
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Public reaction to that film's use of 48fps HFR was decidedly mixed, with some appreciating the clarity of the images, while others — myself included — hating the way high-frame rate photography abandoned the dreamy pseudo-realism of 24fps for a more immediate look that called to mind camcorders and soap operas.
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Now both are essentially gone, and we're making do with substitutions, decoys and mirages: things that seem like romantic comedy but are actually fizzy soap operas ("Crazy Rich Asians"), teen movies ("To All the Boys I've Loved Before"), funny dramas ("You're the Worst"), TV Tinder ("Dating Around") or sports ("The Bachelor").
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"The more I laid in that hospital bed day after day, saw other people laying in their hospital beds day after day watching soap operas and daytime TV, the more I realized, 'Wow, this population is actually in most need of ecopsychology than any other population I've ever worked with,'" she says.
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While it clearly channeled soap operas, macabre hits like "The Twilight Zone," and surreal fare like "The Prisoner" — not to mention classic films like "Peyton Place" and "Laura" — it became a pop culture phenomenon, at least briefly, because no one had put these elements together in such a peculiar and evocative way.
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In a career that paralleled the rise, enormous popularity and gradual decline of soap operas in the last half of the 20th century, Ms. Nixon fashioned many of television's most popular daytime shows, drawing on a rich imagination to find the great and small human dramas lurking just below the surface of American life.
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As in many soap operas, the family at the center of this novel — the Zanes, who preside over a real-estate empire — are fabulously wealthy: so rich that they often celebrate family events in other countries in rented mansions, so powerful that the fate of people around the world can be decided over breakfast.
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Soap operas have been doing this for decades, and Game of Thrones has learned many of its tricks from some of the oldest, most enduring shows on TV. Most discussions of serialization on TV break down into a simple dichotomy: Is the show telling an ongoing story, or does it complete its stories within individual episodes?
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Far from liberalising the country, Mr Kim has tightened the shackles, reinforcing the border with China to make it harder for people to escape and cracking down hard on offences such as possessing a flash drive loaded with South Korean soap operas, or owning a Chinese SIM card in order to make international calls near the border.
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Where to watch: HBO Go Show your family wants to watch: EastEnders, or most soap operas really Better Alternative: Jane the Virgin Why: Here's what I know about EastEnders: It's a seedy British soap opera, and lots of Brits on Twitter complained about it when I asked about the shitty TV shows their families make them watch.
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Those live shows stranded their rosters of talented singers and actors in front of a few crummy flats and a rear-projection system; Grease: Live opted for a more cinematic approach, connecting the dots between the live-to-tape soap operas of the 1940s and the "live music videos" you see at contemporary MTV awards shows.
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" No. 251 Lima, Peru "This screwball fantasy — interwoven with a realistic tale of an improbable romance — is the Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosa's homage to two people who gave shape to his artistic and personal life during his adolescence: an ascetic Bolivian who all day, every day, wrote scripts for radio soap operas, and the author's Aunt Julia.
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Mr. Thae said that back in the North, the totalitarian regime was so paranoid about outside information affecting its people that it kept surveillance on diplomats who had returned home for fear they might spread outside news, even though DVDs smuggled in from China have made South Korean movies and soap operas increasingly popular in the North.
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