First there was the radio soap opera, so named because the high drama was interspersed with adverts for soap (and in the case of Proctor & Gamble, the sole sponsor and producer for many of them). But there's no soap radio anymore; it has moved on to television. A soap opera is a drama with a large cast experiencing dramatic events in their day-to-day lives, broadcast five days a week. Designed to [...] [tvtropes.org]