The creator of a new soap opera, featuring a core Black family, grew up on Chicago’s South Side. Michele Val Jean talks ‘Beyond the Gates.’ A Chicago woman, Irna Phillips, birthed the daytime serial — ...

Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to revive the genre, and will be the first ever focused primarily on a Black family. The actress Daphnée ...

Turkish soap operas started to dominate the Pakistani television landscape in 2012, and while its ratings dominance has ...

Set in the sun-drenched enclave of the ultra-wealthy, Montecito is the first major American audio drama soap opera for 35 years, presenting a dark paradise where shattered romances, hidden family ...

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