In her upcoming WBEZ podcast, Natalie Moore dives deep into the history of daytime soaps, a genre she grew up watching with ...

Beyond the Gates is a soap opera that began airing on CBS on February 24, 2025. Created by Michele Val Jean, the show stars ...

Stories Without End’ — a new six-episode podcast from WBEZ — explores the origins and real-life plot twists of the ...

As General Hospital celebrates 62 years with a special episode today, Woman’s World sits down with soap opera star Finola ...

Chicago journalist Natalie Moore digs into the history — and importance — of soap operas on a new podcast. Driving the news: ...

Val Jean’s new job makes her the first Black person and first Black woman to oversee a daytime soap opera as showrunner/EP. She was also the first Black female head writer of a daytime drama.

But television soap operas, largely created by women for women, were soon attracting tens of millions of viewers and driving network revenue. Midcentury housewives had more free time to tune in ...

She has certainly had some of those lately, as Steffy has been beside herself that the woman who kept her locked in a cage has been revealed to be her husband’s child — one he never knew about ...

The audio recordings were uncovered Friday by The Washington Post, and are just the latest in a series of offensive statements the 70-year-old made about women ... being a soap opera, Walker ...

Irna Phillips, seen in an undated photo, was a radio and television writer who developed what we know today as soap operas. Sun-Times files Share A Chicago woman created soap operas. And a Chicago ...