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She is one of the best known soap opera stars on American television. The Atlanta, Georgia native has had long-term stints on two iconic daytime television drama programs. However, she has since ...

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Upcoming CBS soap opera “Beyond the Gates” has completed its castings, with veteran actor and Broadway star Clifton Davis ...

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Soap operas have a reputation — they are endless dramatic sagas on low-budget sets for the daytime viewer. Not only do they ...

Legendary actor and Tony & Grammy Award nominee Clifton Davis (“Madam Secretary,” “Godfather of Harlem”) has signed on to the series, as have Alex Alegria (“CSI,” “Gossip Girl”), Lauren Buglioli (“Bad ...

“The Gates,” the first new daytime soap opera in a quarter century, will shoot at Assembly Studios in Doraville, a major coup for both the studio and the state. The CBS series will have a ...

Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners ...

Soap opera was once the mainstay of television entertainment, and their characters part of everyday conversation. Now there are only four such programmes on air in the US. What happened?