| Perhaps the nub of it all was that, just like soap operas, current affairs shows love a wedding. |
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| After all, more than 40 per cent of the top-rated shows around the world are mini-series, sitcoms, soap operas, movies and telenovelas. |
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| Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels? |
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| The Arian crisis, both for its longevity and its melodrama, puts modern-day soap operas to shame. |
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| These African actors say until their awareness campaign pays off, they'll pay the rent by working soap operas on radio. |
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| The commonly held view of soap operas is that they don't truly represent real life. |
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| You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas. |
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| In the 1980s the relationship between soap operas and tabloid newspapers reached hitherto unprecedented heights of incestuousness. |
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| But networks mostly offered soap operas and newsmagazines and held back their popular sitcoms and dramas due to rights issues. |
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| It's too bad that our soap operas only show the glamorous and comfy lifestyles of the upper class. |
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| Daytime television, when not featuring soap operas or game shows, is about embarrassing yourself and your family and friends in public. |
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| I don't really care for movies, nor do I follow TV shows, be they soap operas, sitcoms, variety shows, reality shows or what have you. |
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| Televised soap operas are extremely popular with Brazilians of all social classes. |
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| They don't even complain about the lewdness and promiscuity being displayed on the so-called soap operas. |
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| There is a lot she misses about home, like soap operas, cosy carpets, her favourite clothes shops and quality cottage cheese. |
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| The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention. |
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| Television is dominated by films and soap operas from Thailand and Hong Kong, dubbed into Khmer. |
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| Nova now feeds Czechs a brain-numbing diet of soap operas, American cop shows, and, yes, stark-naked weather-girls. |
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| According to reports in the Chinese media, even the hugely popular local soap operas and game shows have had to give way to extended coverage of the Games. |
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| As in the daytime soap operas that the groups watch in their respective languages, the characters and themes have been established in advance. |
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| I began auditioning for the soap operas I'd sworn I'd never do again: jilted lovers, home-wrecking womanizers. |
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| Even soap operas have, as many studies have shown, an educational and emancipating element. |
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| And just this week, reports surfaced that the regime recently executed 10 party officials for watching South Korean soap operas. |
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| Like the soap operas of yore, Marvel has replaced major and minor characters in their films as necessary. |
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| Efforts were therefore being made through soap operas, community theatres and other vehicles to raise public awareness. |
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| We might say that brains that have been softened over the years by soap operas and television action series are our opponent in this. |
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| Furthermore, non-sport content, in particular, popular films, soap operas and comedy shows can also attract very sizeable audiences. |
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| We can produce movies for TV, soap operas, sitcoms, drama comparable to all the best of the world. |
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| Given this sort of language, it is not surprising that Adler watched soap operas voraciously for a period of two and a half years. |
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| Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention. |
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| She still plants flowers every spring, still bakes and sews, entertains friends, attends social events and confesses to a secret addiction to soap operas. |
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| Watching celebrity lives is almost exactly like watching soap operas, and in a sphere where scandal is a weekly event, a gay drug binge gone wrong is hardly worthy of note. |
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| Like soap operas and melodramas, Magnolia is characterized by excess. |
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| Much of recent news coverage is sensationalized like soap operas. |
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| One in eight viewers thought soap operas were now unsuitable for children. |
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| Sometimes Philip works from home using his mobile Blackberry and PC, while Stephanie catches up on her soap operas digitally recorded from the previous week. |
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| On a Thursday evening last summer, a smartly dressed crowd, most of them students, smoked apple-scented narghiles, or water pipes, their eyes glued to Syrian soap operas playing on big screens. |
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| Increasingly ITV's primetime schedules are dominated by its soap operas, such as the flagship Coronation Street and Emmerdale. |
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| An avaricious, vacuous Africa, in love with TV soap operas and fridges. |
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| In terms of the soap operas that her appearance so evocatively recalls, she seems to be more the hapless Sue Ellen Ewing than the scheming Alexis Carrington. Mrs Harris is certainly guilty of partisanship. |
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| She also participated in radio soap operas of the day. |
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| The main beneficiary at whom this media policy initiative might have been directed, the RTL group, surprisingly showed no interest in producing home-grown soap operas and sitcoms. |
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| We know that global competition in the television sector has often led to uniformity of supply: they all compete with the same sort of soap operas. |
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| Mainstream programmes, soap operas, dramas, sit-coms and other shows need to integrate HIV characters into their storylines, just as people living with HIV are integrated in our lives. |
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| On 13 April, while Chávez supporters took to the streets of Caracas and the city was abuzz with rumours of the president's return, the privately-owned TV stations ran cartoons and soap operas. |
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| Many of the British contestants previously appeared in the sort of miserabilist soap operas, set in launderettes and fish-and-chip shops, which mystify American visitors. |
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| There are all kinds of soap operas going on within that party. |
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| She quickly mastered the English language, mostly by having conversations with an Anglophone friend at school and watching TV soap operas with captions for people who are hard of hearing! |
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| On the other hand, Cosmos is now the hot topic since there are no Turkish soap operas on television. |
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| In the Upper Mekong region, for example, UNESCO contributed to the production and broadcasting of soap operas on the local radio in minority languages to provide information about the dangers of trafficking. |
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| BulgariaA ranks second in the world in terms in the number of Turkish TV soap operas that it purchased. |
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| The channel is dedicated to Afrikaans soap operas, children's programmes, as well as lifestyle and entertainment news. |
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| Ricardo Pérez, Regional Information Officer, Pan American Health Organization, reported on the use of radio soap operas for disaster awareness education. |
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| But, besides fasting during Ramadan, they stay tuned, with punctuality, to watch soap operas and special shows that are broadcast on different channels. |
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| I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera. That's what they name men on soap operas. Bradford and Desmond and Elliott and Royce. |
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| Soap operas are most popular during the time of Ramadan, when families gather to break their fast. |
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